Placenta/development

Famous quotes containing the words placenta and/or development:

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

“To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us from which we appropriate what we can and what is suitable to us.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)