Top 12 Umbilical Cord Quotes

My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.

My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.

Kirk Hammett

Guitar, Umbilical Cord, Metallica

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.

Robert Burton

Love, Dream, Umbilical Cord

The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.

John Gregory Dunne

Umbilical Cord, Fetus, Literature

John Gregory Dunne (2013). “Crooning”, p.198, Zola Books

In a sane society no woman would be left to struggle on her own with the huge transformation that is motherhood, when a single individual finds herself joined by an invisible umbilical cord to another person from whom she will never be separated, even by death.

Germaine Greer

Struggle, Motherhood, Umbilical Cord

"The Whole Woman". Book by Germaine Greer, 1999.

The greatest satisfaction, I think, is when a building opens and the public possesses it and you cut the umbilical cord and you see it taking on its own life. There’s no greater satisfaction.

Moshe Safdie

Cutting, Thinking, Umbilical Cord

I was born dead. Yeah, the umbilical cord was like, floppy baby, the whole thing. Yeah, it was bad.

Charlie Sheen

Baby, Umbilical Cord, Yeah

Hey birthers, wanna hear my theory? My theory was that Obama was born in America and you were born with the umbilical cord around your neck.

Bill Maher

America, Umbilical Cord, Hey

Most cinema is not about images but text. Why on earth have we based cinema on text? Why can't we break that umbilical cord? Why do we have to pollute cinema?

Peter Greenaway

Umbilical Cord, Cinema, Earth

"'You have naked bodies and genitalia, don't you? Why are you so adolescent?': Director Peter Greenaway on 'Puritan' Americans and the intense sex scenes in 'Eisenstein in Guanajuato'". Interview with Gary M. Kramer, www.salon.com. February 4, 2016.

It's a fine balance between design and the thing making itself happen. The stroke has to have complete precision to work. Sometimes I lose it on the exit. You can't fudge it. It ruins the whole thing.” The resulting figures are almost always contained within the rectangle. “It's less of a window if I keep it within the confines of the canvas, but there's almost always a drip that's an umbilical cord.

James Nares

Design, Balance, Umbilical Cord

Even the two times that I left, I never really felt like I left the band. It's very bizarre. It's like there's sort of an umbilical cord that stretches between us spiritually.

Rick Wakeman

Two, Umbilical Cord, Band

As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it.

K. D. Lang

Song, Understanding, Umbilical Cord

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.