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)

“But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)