pregnant quotes

Like finding oneself pregnant and trying to fall in love as quicklyas possible.

- Dean Gooderham Acheson
On the weekend of Richard M Nixon's inauguration. Quoted in Douglas Brinkley Dean  Acheson: The Cold WarYears1953^71 (1992).

To go to school and finish my schooling without getting pregnant.

-Anonymous
15-year-old Detroit girl's definitionof the American dream. Reported in Newsweek, 29  Jan.

   The Parliament of England cannot have on earth so strong pillars and pregnant supporters of all their were always told there is one golden rule: no hanky panky in theTardis.

- Robert Baillie
  On playing Doctor  Who. Quoted in the Sunday Times,7 Mar.

A non-Communist premier with Communist ministers would be like a woman trying to stay half pregnant.

- Charles Eustis Bohlen
Of  Winston Churchill's suggestion that the West share spheres of influence with  Joseph Stalin in the post-war development of the Balkans. Quoted in Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas The Wise Men (1986).

Having a little inflation is like being a little pregnant.

- Leon Henderson
Attributed.

And chiefly thou O spirit, that does prefer Before all temples th'upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the highth of this great argument I mayassert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. 580

-John Milton
  Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.1, l.16^25.