I fell in love with a beautiful girl, got her pregnant, and then I got married. I wonder whatever happened to that beautiful girl I got pregnant.

Life is tough enough without having someone kick you from the inside.

A mother does not become pregnant in order to provide employment to medical people. Giving birth is an ecstatic jubilant adventure not available to males. It is a woman’s crowning creative experience of a lifetime.

Giving birth and being born brings us into the essence of creation, where the human spirit is courageous and bold and the body, a miracle of wisdom.

Now my belly is as noble as my heart.

A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten and the future worth living for.

A baby is something you carry inside you for nine months, in your arms for three years, and in your heart until the day you die.

You are the closest I will ever come to magic.

Pregnancy is getting company inside one’s skin.

Whether your pregnancy was meticulously planned, medically coaxed, or happened by surprise, one thing is certain – your life will never be the same.

A baby fills a place in your heart that you never knew was empty.

Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be.

He plough’d her, and she cropp’d

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.

Giving birth should be your greatest achievement not your greatest fear.

Before you were born I carried you under my heart. From the moment you arrived in this world until the moment I leave it, I will always carry you in my heart.

Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be.

The most important thing she’d learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

Of course I can do this. I’m pregnant, not brain-damaged. My condition doesn’t change my personality.

People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it’s because you’re sweating to death.

I’m never as happy as when I’m pregnant. I literally would have 10 babies if I could!

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother’s love

There is such a special sweetness in being able to participate in creation.

I usually claim that pregnant women should not read books about pregnancy and birth. Their time is too precious. They should, rather, watch the moon and sing to their baby in the womb.

Truthfully, being pregnant is changing me as a person. Each day is part of this amazing journey that has completely shifted the focus of my life and made me reevaluate my personal and professional goals.

Feeling fat lasts nine months but the joy of becoming a mom lasts forever.

It’s an established fact. Some women can’t stand being pregnant, getting big and bloated, and hauling around a giant stomach, and some women, for reasons probably understood by Darwin, love it.

In giving birth to our babies, we may find that we give birth to new possibilities within ourselves.

You do a lot of growing up when you’re pregnant. It’s suddenly like, “Yikes. Here it is, folks. Playtime is over.

When you moved, I felt squeezed with a wild infatuation and protectiveness. We are one. Nothing, not even death, can change that.

Of course I can do this. I’m pregnant, not brain-damaged. My condition doesn’t change my personality.

Making a decision to have a child–it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.

Pregnancy is a process that invites you to surrender to the unseen force behind all life.

You are the closest, I'll ever come to magic.

A baby fills a place in your heart that you never knew was empty.

The Ohio Legislature's passed a law to allow concealed weapons in day care centers, but interesting: this same Legislature, in its wisdom, doesn't allow concealed weapons in the statehouse.

Loving too much caring too much and expecting too much from someone are the key ingredients that will lead you to being hurt disappointing and in pain.

I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'

The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.

I love that song 'I Could Have Danced All Night' from 'My Fair Lady' so much. I love that song because watching it as a kid, it was such an unbridled expression of joy.

Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.

I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.

Fracking opens up vast tracts of the U.S. to exploitation by gas drillers. There's enough energy under our feet to last us for decades, maybe centuries.

The mind must see visual achievement of the purpose before action is initiated.

If you look up every last detail on your subject, you'll never finish.

The most complicated skill is to be simple.

Happiness and love are choices that we get to make in each and every moment.