Ira Glass Quotes

Babies are made through an act that you will eventually find intriguing but for right now will just sort of horrify you, and also sometimes people do stuff that involves baby-making parts that does not actually involve making babies, like for instance kiss each other in places that are not on the face.

Life is the division of human cells, a process which begins at conception.

When I asked my mother where babies came from, she thought I said rabies. She said you get them from being bitten by a dog. The next week, a woman on my block gave birth to triplets... I thought she'd been bitten by a Great Dane.

I never asked my mother where babies came from but I remember clearly the day she volunteered the information....my mother called me to set the table for dinner. She sat me down in the kitchen, and under the classic caveat of 'loving each other very, very much,' explained that when a man and a woman hug tightly, the man plants a seed in the woman. The seed grows into a baby. Then she sent me to the pantry to get placemats. As a direct result of this conversation, I wouldn't hug my father for two months.

The minute those two little particles inside a woman's womb have joined together, billions of decisions have been made. A thing like that has to come from entropy.

I was young, maybe 4, when I learned where babies came from.

The process of the body changing and making a whole human fascinates me.

You cannot go into the womb to form the child; it is there and makes itself and comes forth whole-and there it is and you have made it and have felt it, but it has come itself.

You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.

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I never knew where babies came from until it happened to me.

The so-called miracle of birth is nature getting her own way.

I was born a Catholic and now I'm a lapsed Catholic. I'm something but I'm not a believer any more.

I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.

It's no mistake that the moment of impregnation is called conception: at first, parenthood is nothing more than an idea.

In reality, many people let go of religion later in life.

When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life.

We know that at conception, the genetic code is there for a unique individual. This is not something that is just a religious belief.

As a teenager, I had been growing away from the beliefs of the church, but one of the main things that caused me to question Christian Science was that the year that I left home to go to college, a boy who I knew in my Sunday School, whose name was Michael Schram, who was 12 years old, died at home of a ruptured appendix.

For a while, I called myself an agnostic, which was me wanting to maintain a connection to the culture I was raised in while also undercutting a lot of the beliefs I had.

When I was little, the great mystery to me was not how babies were made, but why?

It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries (aged 17).

Even if all the world were to combine forces, they could not bring about the conception of a single child in any woman's womb nor cause it to be born; that is wholly the work of God.

The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.

God, Satan, Paradise, and Hell all vanished one day in my fifteenth year, when I quite abruptly lost my faith. ... and afterwards, to prove my new-found atheism, I bought myself a rather tasteless ham sandwich, and so partook for the first time of the forbidden flesh of the swine. No thunderbolt arrived to strike me down. ... From that day to this I have thought of myself as a wholly secular person.