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)

“Our children shall behold his fame,
The kindly-earnest, brave, forseeing man,
Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame,
New birth of our new soil, the first American.”
—James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)