Famous quotes containing the words birth control, american, birth and/or control:
“Birth control that really works: Every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.”
—Roseanne Barr Arnold (20th century)
“Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
“The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mindthe mind of a fighterin which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree mans first beginning.”
—Eric Hoffer (19021983)
“Why wont they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, cant they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stoppingrising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Years and Easter and ChristmasBut, goodness, why need they do it?”
—John Dos Passos (18961970)