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)

“Nature seems at each man’s birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)