Quotes About Conception

How was I conceived? Was it love, was I meant, or was I just an accident?

A mother's role is God-ordained. Mothers are to conceive, bear, nourish, love, and train. They are to be helpmates and are to counsel with their husbands.

It's easy to make up weird stuff. It gets trickier when you want the weird stuff to be interesting and make sense.

What did she expect? It was like trying to visualize a new primary color or a world in which you could recognize several hundred acquaintances individually only by their smells... She could talk about this, but she couldn't experience it.

There's some things we can't think because we don't know the words.

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.

Immaculate conception is the only way another kid is coming out of me!

Pritkin gave me a little shake and I eyed him without favor. The only other occasions when I had been dragged back in time, the trip had been triggered by proximity to a person whose past was being threatened. I have to tell you," I said frankly, "if someone is trying to mess with your conception or something, I'm not feeling a pressing need to intervene.

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

A glimmer of a notion of a nothing of a whisper of a figment of an idea.

The failure was in the conception.

My friends want to show me films of their baby's birth. No, thank you. But I'll look at a video of the conception, if you've got one.

Contempt is conceived with expectations. Respect is conceived with expressions of gratitude. We can choose which one we will obsess over-expectations, or thanksgivings. That choice will result in a birth-and the child will be named either contempt, or respect.

Edna more willingly believed in Elohim's beneficence. When the river had returned to its natural southward current, she wondered how many other miracles they would take for granted with such lack of gratitude. The provision of food to fill their bellies? More salvation from the enemy's mace? The devoted love of a man with a woman? The conception of a new human life? The birth of a child? It seemed everything kept pointing back to Methuselah in her heart.

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.

The way the show was conceived originally and developed, has always had good writing at the heart of it, it's very difficult to be good with bad writing. 'New Tricks' has that with the right level of humor running through the series, along with the investigations.

I have trouble writing if I can't picture how things are going to look.

The truth is, it is hard to know where ideas come from.

I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake. But the truth is you write in the moment and with your head down and there is no way back then that I could have conceived of Harry having the longevity that he has had.

What I, Karsa Orlong, shall shape, you cannot imagine. No one can.

You will never have a knowledge of sin unless you have a true conception of the holiness of God.

Put simply, people tend to do what they know and fail to do that which they have no conception of. In that way, ignorance profoundly channels the course we take in life . . . People fail to reach their potential as professionals, lovers, parents, and people simply because they are not aware of the possible.

The Tartauchi and Beth…Gimel, they were beginning to conjoin. Such is the way monsters were conceived, at one time.