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Quotes About Expecting

But when a boy was born—on February 24, 1955—the designated couple decided that they wanted a girl and backed out.
~ Walter Isaacson
En stund gråter hun. Jeg vil tro at det er fordi hun er gravid. En gang sa Munita at gravide kvinner lett tar til tårene. Det har visstnok noe å gjøre med at det dannes så mye fostervann i livmoren at det flommer over iblant.
~ Hallgrimur Helgason
Gisele thought it a little harsh of Nigel to be questioning her and expecting sensible answers after all she had just endured.
~ Hannah Howell
I wish I'd learned then that when you call someone's bluff you usually win: it's simply not what the other person is expecting. And swimming along in the slipstream of another's current is no way to live.
~ Harriet Evans
I hope I'm not intruding,' Morelli said. 'I know you weren't expecting company.' This is the opening statement that will get you into any burg house. No housewife worth her salt will ever admit to having her house not up to company twenty-four hours a day. Jack the Ripper would have easy access if he used this line.
~ Janet Evanovich
Nausea is a normal but unpleasant effect of pregnancy and a really good sign that it is going well. Women who experience nausea in early pregnancy are less likely to miscarry.
~ Emily Oster
I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you're expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you're not asking for it.
~ Matthew McConaughey
First, whenever possible, connect with others. Second, with enthusiasm, strive always to create fun and delight for others. And third, lean into each moment and encounter expecting magic—or miracles.
~ Timothy Ferriss
We have a beautiful little boy who is 18 months old and another little boy to be born in October. We are very excited about that.
~ Drew Brees
Why must the gate be narrow? Because you cannot pass beyond it burdened. To come in among these trees you must leave behind the six days' world, all of it, all of its plans and hopes. You must come without weapon or tool, alone, expecting nothing, remembering nothing, into the ease of sight, the brotherhood of eye and leaf.
~ Wendell Berry
Why must the gate be narrow? Because you cannot pass beyond it burdened. To come into the woods you must leave behind the six day's world, all of it, all of its plans and hopes. You must come without weapon or tool, alone, expecting nothing, remembering nothing, into the ease of sight, the brotherhood of eye and leaf.
~ Wendell Berry
I walked into a store and said, "It's my wife's birthday. I'd like to buy her a beautiful pen." The clerk winked at me and said, "A little surprise, heh?" I said, "Yes, she's expecting a Cadillac."
~ Henny Youngman
I am enceinte, gravid, pregnant, in pup, call it what you will. No doubt there are as many names for the production of a child as for the act which initiates it.
~ Winston Graham
I blinked deliberately, expecting my eyelids to act like lumberjacks. But the trees would not fall.
~ Yann Martel
Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.
~ Lion Feuchtwanger
Finding out I was expecting a child was highly inconvenient for doing all the promotion for 'Venus.'
~ Keren Woodward
I would love to design a maternity clothing line. It is so hard to find stylish clothes for pregnant people... I would say 99 percent of the clothes I wore were not maternity because I couldn't find anything I liked.
~ Kourtney Kardashian
parole hearing. I wasn't expecting to go free anytime soon. Actually, I was bracing myself for a denial. I figured I'd get the news in the mail saying that Governor Jerry Brown had overturned my suitability and I would need to come before the board in another five or seven years.
~ Unknown
Being pregnant should have never been a trend!!!
~ Unknown
A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.
~ Kate Morton
Ah, dearest, we must set a date," he said, into her hair. "A very early date, given your delicate condition.
~ Unknown
He met Austin's gaze over the top of Faith's head. "I sure hope your baby is a boy." "Reckon we need to even things out a little, don't we?" Rawley gave him a brusque nod. "We men folk are sorely outnumbered." Austin laughed, remembering a time when that was exactly what Dallas had wanted: more women out in West Texas. -Austin and Rawley
~ Lorraine Heath
It is probably the hardest thing to understand: how even horror can become commonplace. . . You could stop expecting the most awful thing to happen, because it already had.
~ Jodi Picoult
Statues are too much like dolls, and dolls are creepy. You keep expecting them to blink. And the ones that smile, like this?" Eve kept her lips tight together and she curved them up. "You know they've got teeth in there. Big, sharp, shiny teeth." I didn't. But now I've got to worry about it.
~ J.D. Robb