Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

From conception to delivery, it has been a great experience. I was determined to give a natural birth.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.

My personal opinion is that life begins at the point of conception, and abortion is morally indefensible.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

The science is settled; it's not even a consensus, it is a unanimity that human life begins at conception.

God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.

OSHA's decision to regulate home workplaces reflects the agency's expanding conception of its own mission.

Generally, I've got to say that all sounds, musics, noises since conception are bound to have influenced me.

We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast?

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

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

It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.

Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent.

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.

There's a small still center into which conception can arrive. And when it arrives, you make it welcome with your experience.

Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.

There is a popular conception about karma, and that is that as you sow, so shall you reap. That's only true if you're a farmer.

I don't know if I officially proofread my father's book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that.

It is possible to argue that our present conception of revolution was staked out more securely in science than in political action.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

People have this conception of plus size models as girls who aren't fit or don't work out or don't really take care of their bodies.

The destiny of the woman must be shaped to a large extent on her own conception of her spiritual imperative and her place in society.

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

I've been told that 'Midnight at the Oasis' has been responsible for the conception of more children than any other song of the '70s.

Everyone's got this hidden infinity that you only get glimpses of. They're always more complex than your conception of them will allow.

If a child in its first thousand days - from conception to two years old - does not have adequate nutrition, the damage is irreversible.

You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.

The more I try to unravel the mysteries of the world in which we live, the more I come to the conception of a single overruling power - God.

I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute.

The Republicans have long had a platform of being pro-life. And I'm someone that believes life begins at conception and should be protected.

Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty.

I am for economy. After that I am for more economy. At this time and under present conditions that is my conception of serving all the people.

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.

I'm a person that's grounded in faith and believe that my core values, motivation, inspiration, draw from a conception of the world in that way.

Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space and time.

To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception.

Being in front of the camera, you never got to see the whole process from the conception of the script all the way through to the filming process.

Writing is a craft and, like all craft, proceeds by stages: conception, material selection, rough shaping, detailed shaping, sanding and finishing.

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.

When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.

The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

Sometimes the picture that emerges of the man seems no longer to agree with our conception of the musician. In reality, however, there is a glorious unity.

I couldn't go into the haphazard drawing or the paintings, the splashing of paint. I wanted to go back to a completely dry drawing, a dry conception of art.

We hear all around us about practical religion, and analysing all that, we find that it can be brought down to one conception - charity to our fellow beings.

The fact is, in Mike Huckabee's case, he can say, 'I was a preacher, I'm a Christian, and so I believe that life begins at conception, ends at natural death.'

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.

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