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Quotes About Conception

I've been asked a lot lately if I had a hard time getting pregnant. I've been asked how I conceived. In the same way everyone else does!
~ Tess Holliday
Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others.
~ Elihu Root
England has been called, with great felicity of conception, 'the land of liberty and good sense.' We have preserved many of the advantages of a free people, which the nations of the Continent have long since lost.
~ William Godwin
As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able to tackle the task of producing these substances by artificial methods, i.e. by synthesis, as we call it.
~ Otto Wallach
The Catholic Church did not always teach that life begins at conception.
~ Mario Cuomo
I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
~ Gottfried Leibniz
Opponents and supporters of abortion rights may find fault with my proposal that a pineal DMT release at forty-nine days after conception marks the entrance of the spirit into the fetus.
~ Rick Strassman
People had a way of folding what they saw into what they knew and what they wanted to believe.
~ Robert Jordan
And not the sort of thing you have imagination enough to think up.
~ Robert Jordan
Any intellectually conceived object is always in the past and therefore unreal. Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
I think there are two kinds of TRUE THINGS-- true things that ARE, and true things that ARE NOT, but MIGHT be.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
~ Larry Niven
Never, never, never could one conceive what love is beforehand, never. —D. H. Lawrence, after meeting his future wife
~ Laura Dave
you have a better chance to get pregnant if you keep your knees way up and stay that way as long as you can.
~ Lawrence Block
A puritan culture's conception of art is something which will endorse its morality and flatter its patriotism.
~ Lawrence Durrell
A puritan culture's conception of art is something which will endorse its morality and flatter its patriotism. Nothing else.
~ Lawrence Durrell
To understand is to invent.
~ Jean Piaget
[Geology] opens up such wide intellectual vistas and supplies a more perfectly unified and more comprehensive conception of nature than any other science.
~ Rosa Luxemburg
A reality completely independent of the spirit that conceives it, sees it, or feels it, is an impossibility. A world so external as that, even if it existed, would be forever inaccessible to us.
~ Henri Poincare
Imagination is a form of seeing
~ Philip Pullman
We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness and majesty of the Author of things.
~ Gottfried Leibniz
The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
The initial stage, the act of conceiving or inventing a theory, seems to me neither to call for logical analysis nor to be susceptible of it.
~ Karl Popper
The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things.
~ Albert Einstein