Elizabeth Noble Quotes

However much we know about birth in general, we know nothing about a particular birth. We must let it unfold with its own uniqueness.

Elizabeth Noble

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• This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Character
  • Story
  • Birth

• Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Born
  • Birth
  • Teen

• I was really surprised when I was told that my grandmother did not come to see me till a month after my birth. I was born seven years after my only sister Chandranshu, and my birth was a big disappointment for her.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Me
  • Grandmother
  • Disappointment

• My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Birth

• Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Birth

• Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Saying
  • Birth
  • Punishment

• I mean, if someone asked for my birth certificate, I'd get my baby book and hand it out and say 'Here it is.'

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Book
  • Hand
  • Baby

• Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Truth
  • Freedom
  • Birth

• Clearly, we are not programmed at birth to behave a certain way based on our gender. Instead, we are trained throughout our lives to conform to our gender norms.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Way
  • Birth
  • Gender

• It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Birth
  • Lovely
  • Rainbow

• My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • People
  • Son
  • Blessing

• Attachment to a baby is a long-term process, not a single, magical moment. The opportunity for bonding at birth may be compared to falling in love - staying in love takes longer and demands more work.

  

  T. Berry Brazelton
  • Work
  • Long
  • May

• Nobody suffers the pain of birth or the anguish of loving a child in order for presidents to make wars, for governments to feed on the substance of their people, for insurance companies to cheat the young and rob the old.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • People
  • Pain
  • Insurance

• One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Black
  • Morning
  • Birth

• The Royal Court more or less gave birth to me. I thought it only right that I should come back to have some Sunday lunch.

  

  Christopher Hampton
  • Sunday
  • Birth
  • Lunch

• There is a certain strong sense of inner conviction that strikes, with a pang as that of birth, through the very soul, and which is experienced but once or twice in a lifetime.

  

  E. M. Delafield
  • Soul
  • Strong
  • Birth

• Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more.

  

  William Cowper
  • Age
  • Giving
  • Birth

• A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.

  

  Plato
  • Reality
  • Artist
  • Birth

• Even one word, or certainly one sentence, should be able to describe the basic characteristic that the scene has, or the character has, or the story has. And then you begin to detail that one spine, and you have offshoots from that spine, and it becomes more and more complex, but all of it stems from that one-word, one-line theme, which can give the character, the scene, or the play its uniqueness.

  

  William Shatner
  • Character
  • Giving
  • Scene

• Verily, I swear, it is better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perked up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Grief
  • Humble
  • Sorrow

• I just like to explore all sorts of different forms - no, 'explore' is not even the word - enjoy. You don't want to limit yourself to a particular form.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Different
  • Enjoy
  • Yourself

• I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Think
  • Artist
  • Over

• Say to the seceded States, "Wayward sisters, depart in peace."

  

  Winfield Scott
  • Peace
  • Sister
  • States

• However much we know about birth in general, we know nothing about a particular birth. We must let it unfold with its own uniqueness.

  

  Elizabeth Noble
  • Birth
  • Uniqueness