Nine Months Quotes - Page 3

• I hear laughter and someone asks if I need help, not in a nice way. I snarl, "What I need is for your mother to have thought a little harder nine months before your birthday.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mother, Laughter, Nice

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• Where did you go?" "To the end of the driveway," my mother says. "I was nine months pregnant; that was the maximum distance I could waddle without feeling as if my uterus was falling out." I wince. "Do you have to be quite so graphic?" "What would you like me to call it, Zoe? A fetal living room?

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Distance, Fall

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother Daughter, Mother And Daughter, Mom And Daughter

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.

  Stephen King

  Running, Eye, Snakes

  Stephen King (2014). “Big Driver”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't need a baby growing inside me for nine months. If I'm going to feel nauseous and achy when I wake up, I want to achieve that state the old-fashioned way: getting good and drunk the night before.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Baby, Humor

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• When I got pregnant, I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months, even though I knew it was ruining my career at the time.

  Yoko Ono

  Careers, Nine, Months

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• 'The Client List' is my baby. I always tell people, 'It took nine months to put this project together because it is my baby.' And, it really did take that long!

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Baby, Long, People

  Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. March 16, 2013.

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• I say Democrats should not be afraid to talk about the morality of life, of caring for children who are born. It seems the Republican obsession with being pro-life lasts about nine months. After that, it’s each baby for herself.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Baby, Children, Caring

  "Republicans: What About Children Outside the Womb?" by Jennifer M. Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 27, 2012.

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• The thing that stood out above and beyond all the experiences was this relationship with the nine-month-old baby. On weekends, I'd be thinking about going back to set on Monday just to see the baby.

  Vin Diesel

  Baby, Monday, Weekend

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• When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process. Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to what's happening. She becomes what's happening. But for even the best-prepared father, it happens all at once. On the other side of a plate-glass window, a nurse is holding up something roughly the size of a loaf of bread for him to see for the first time.

  Frederick Buechner

  Mother, Daughter, Dad

  Frederick Buechner (1988). “Whistling in the dark: an ABC theologized”, Harpercollins

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• In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.

  Sugata Mitra

  Children, Motivation, Inspiration

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• Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months a year, for twelve years. Is this deadly routine really necessary? And if so, for what? Don't hide behind reading, writing, and arithmetic as a rationale, because 2 million happy homeschoolers have surely put that banal justification to rest.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Education, Teacher, Reading

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• Advent is the season of the secret, the secret of the growth of Christ, of divine love growing in silence…For nine months, Christ grew in his mother's body. By his own will, she formed him from herself, from the simplicity of her daily life.

  Caryll Houselander

  Mother, Silence, Simplicity

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• So setting up automatic savings plans, and buying insurance as opposed to buying a new thing. The newness effect of a new thing wears off in nine months to a year, but financial security can last a lifetime.

  Dan Buettner

  Years, Nine, Lasts

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• The reality is that a consumer culture which chucks out its iPhones for a new version every nine months is completely unsustainable, because Earth has already reached the tipping point. The General Strike attempts to personalize these issues and encourage listeners to look for a new model.

  Justin Sane

  Reality, Issues, Iphone

  "Anti-Flag’s General Strike Is a Soundtrack for Occupied America" by Scott Thill, www.wired.com. March 29, 2012.

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• Christian! His parents had nine months to to think of a name, and the best they came up with was Christian!? My parents had nine months and they didn't call me Jew!

  Paul Heyman

  Christian, Thinking, Names

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• Is a man's body at stake? Any time a man is asked to work to pay child support, he is using his body, his time, his life - not for nine months, but for a minimum of 18 to 21 years. So the motto of the feminist with integrity is, 'It's a woman's and man's right to choose because it is a woman's and man's body at stake.'

  Warren Farrell

  Children, Integrity, Men

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• I am not saying I will vote against John Ashcroft because he is pro-life, .. But let me say if someone was nominated for attorney general who was vehemently pro choice -- who in his or her career spent decades trying to find ways to expand the law abortion at nine months would be perfectly legal -- wouldn't you be more upset and raise more of a voice than against a nominee who was simply pro-choice?.

  Charles Schumer

  Law, Careers, Voice

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• Make the bottlenecks work only on what will contribute to throughput today … not nine months from now. That’s one way to increase capacity at the bottlenecks. The other way you increase bottleneck capacity is to take some of the load off the bottlenecks and give it to non-bottlenecks.

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt

  Giving, Today, Nine

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox (2016). “The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement”, p.149, Routledge

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• When I came to the Food Network, I didn't want to do a cooking show. I told Kathleen Finch for nine months I didn't want to do a cooking show, I wanted to do a home-and-garden show.

  Sandra Lee

  Home, Garden, Cooking

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• I know there are things I did in education that will never be reversed. I have not done that in film yet because I have only been here for about nine months.

  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

  Done, Nine, Months

  "Minister's second chance for stardom". Interview with Dan Milmo, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2004.

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• I was very fortunate in having David Fincher, the director come to me. Now I've seen the finished product, I feel that every bit of the nine months we spent on the film was worth it.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Directors, Nine, Months

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• I love my lifestyle now, but at the end of nine months, you're toast. You are toast. It's like running a marathon. You can't think while you're doing it. Especially when different directors come in who are not part of the posse, the circle

  Christopher Meloni

  Running, Thinking, Circles

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• I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out

  William Hurt

  Years, Needs, Rehearsal

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• It is a revolutionary experience. That's the best way I can describe it. It transforms you completely, in a second. Nature is very wise and gives you nine months to prepare, but in that moment-when you see that face, you are transformed forever.

  Penelope Cruz

  Wise, Giving, Forever

  "Penelope Cruz Emphasizes Big Baby Bump in Clingy Rolling Stones T-Shirt: Picture" by Allison Takeda, www.usmagazine.com. May 30, 2013.

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