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Quotes About Gestation

Everything is gestation and then birthing.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
The natural growth of your inner life will lead you slowly and with time to other insights... Everything is a gestation and then bringing forth.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Everything is gestation and then birthing. To let each impression and each embryo of a feeling come to completion in itself, in the dark, in the unsayable, the unconscious, beyond the reach of one's own understanding, and with deep humility and patience to wait for the hour when a new clarity is born: this alone is what it means to live as an artist: in understanding as in creating.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Everything is gestation and then bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of a feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in the dark, in the inexpressible, the unconscious, beyond the reach of one's own intelligence, and await with deep humility and patience the birth-hour of a new clarity: that alone is living the artist's life: in understanding as in creating.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
McDonald's says it's phasing out pig gestation crates. When I heard that news, I almost started crying.
~ Jane Velez-Mitchell
Part of the gestation of 'The Wall' was this business of alienation from the audience, and so the interesting thing was, what 'The Wall' eventually became was something that absolutely engaged the audience.
~ Nick Mason
We must wait for an idea to hatch.
~ Julia Cameron
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul.
~ Richard Ellmann
In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation.
~ Jacques Barzun
Usually, the best ideas come from other people's good ideas, which then, after a short gestation period, become your ideas.
~ Amy Sedaris
The European rabbit flea is so synchronized with its host that a female flea only gestates when living on a pregnant doe; when the doe gives birth, so does the flea, and the new fleas find a happy home on the baby rabbit.
~ William Rosen
You know, writing isn't easy. It's tedious. Ideas have a gestation period, and after a while, it becomes difficult.
~ Rajiv Menon
When a person accepts the call of individuation to grow in self-knowledge, his or her ego is pregnant with the desire for gnosis. It is as if that person's ego is the womb for the conception, gestation, and birth of the Self. In
~ Robert Lloyd
Mustn't all significant action be preceded by an incubation period?...the waiting period is not just a delay to be endured in order to reach the right moment. It is... the very creator of that moment.
~ Robert V. Levine
She compares the deepest wells of depression to gestation, to a time enclosed, a secluded lightlessness in which, unknown and unforced, we grow.
~ Louise Erdrich
After a winter's gestation in its eggshell of ice, the valley had beaked its way out into the open, moist and yellow.
~ Salman Rushdie
because an infant is born with only 25 percent of its adult brain volume, "its physiological systems are unable to function optimally without contact with the mother's body, which continues to regulate the baby much like it did during gestation." McKenna
~ Arianna Huffington
Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.
~ Julia Cameron
The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer the intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years.
~ Author-Poet Aberjhani
Je suis un bâtisseur, je suis un homme de chantier, bien plus qu'un théoricien, et c'est peut-être la raison pour laquelle je suis convaincu qu'il n'y a que l'oeuvre effectivement construite qui puisse satisfaire aux attente de la société. Chaque fois que le projet réussit à dépasser le stade de la gestation, il s'enrichit au contact de la réalité.
~ Mario Botta
However, on January 22, 1973, the day after Roe vs. Wade, no states had valid laws prohibiting or restricting abortion, as the United States Supreme Court struck down all state laws protecting children in the womb. Roe went so far as to authorize the killing of enwombed children through the entire nine month human gestation period. These are the children that God says are special to Him "Lo, children are a heritage of the Lord, and the fruit of the womb is His reward." (Psalm 127:3)
~ John Price
Men can become twins with age. The past was their common womb; the six months of rain and the six months of sun was the period of their common gestation. They needed only a few words and a few gestures to convey their meaning. They had graduated through the same fevers, they were moved by the same love and contempt.
~ Graham Greene
I'd observed five of Mother's gestations, and clearly this was her most difficult. She'd enlarged to mammoth proportions. Even her poor face appeared bloated. Nevertheless, she'd created an elaborate fete.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Giraffe gestation is about thirteen to fifteen months.
~ Susan Mallery