Placenta/birth

Famous quotes containing the words placenta and/or birth:

“The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)

“Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes
Lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes;
Antiquity and birth are needless here;
‘Tis impudence and money makes a peer.”
—Daniel Defoe (1660–1731)