Pacifiers Quotes:

When your first baby drops her pacifier, you sterilize it. When your second baby drops her pacifier, you tell the dog: 'Fetch!'

- Bruce Lansky

topic: Baby, Dog, Fetch, Pacifiers, First Baby

I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting.

- Cyndi Lauper

topic: Writing, School, Band, Pacifiers

Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.

- Emma Goldman

topic: Men, Two, Phantoms, Arbiter, Social Harmony

I was a closet pacifier advocate. So were most of my friends. Unknown to our mothers, we owned thirty or forty of those little suckers that were placed strategically around the house so a cry could be silenced in less than thirty seconds. Even though bottles were boiled, rooms disinfected, and germs fought one on one, no one seemed to care where the pacifier had been.

- Erma Bombeck

source: Erma Bombeck (2013). “Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession”, p.38, Open Road Media

topic: Mother, House, Bottles, Pacifiers

My phone is trying to kill me. It is a battery-charged rectangle of disappointment and possibility. It is a technological pacifier.

- Amy Poehler

topic: Disappointment, Technology, Phones, Pacifiers, Rectangles

The exercise of prayer, in those who habitually exert it, must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves.

- William James

source: William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1982). “Essays in Religion and Morality”, p.160, Harvard University Press

topic: Prayer, Exercise, Doctors, Pacifiers