Top 172 Cord Quotes & Sayings

Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.

There's a cord sticking out of the back. Might you tell me where it goes?

The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.

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

I tried to hang myself with a bungee cord. I kept almost dying.

There was a disc and two bone spurs pressing on my spinal cord. If anyone's had spinal cord problems or disc injuries in their neck, they'd understand what I went through.

I may have been born in Tel Aviv, but my umbilical cord emerges from the Temple Mount.

I invented the cordless extension cord.

Copywriting cuts the communication cord between word and feeling. By offering instant gratification, it atrophies more subtle emotions.

When giving, praying, and fasting are practiced together in the life of a believer, it creates a type of threefold cord that is not easily broken.

With my first son I cut his umbilical cord and everything, so I'm a hands-on father, to say the least.

The cord-cutting generation hates cable TV 'cause they think they're corporations and they rip people off and they make you buy a bunch of channels you never watch in order to get the channels that you do watch. They've always said, "We want to be a la cart. We want to be able to cord-cut. We want to be able to watch what we want." So it's now evolving where if they only want to watch HBO they can but they have to pay for it. If they only want to watch Cinemax, they can, but have to pay for it.

Once I had kids, my whole attitude changed. I was like, "You make a spinal cord from scratch and we'll talk."

The thrill of a fish at the end of the line, that thing that sparks from the dark water to spinal cord, is a vestige of an archetypal joy that has to do with sustenance, material and spiritual.

Hearing people clapping draws you in pretty quick. It's like bungee cord jumping - it's a rush; you just want to do it again.

My father cut the umbilical cord for my son, because I wasn't actually there.

Godly fear, faith, and humility is the true threefold cord that can’t easily be broken (see Ecclesiastes 4:12).

I cut the cord for my son, which was a tremendous pleasure, though Ive never eaten calamari since.

When I was born, the umbilical cord came wrapped around my neck, so when I came out, I wasn't breathing.

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

The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape.

Faint hearts are encouraged when they read about others who, despite amputation, spinal cord injury, or psychiatric disorders have a vibrant trust and confidence in God.

We need a theory that goes before the Big Bang, and that's String Theory. String Theory says that perhaps two universes collided to create our universe, or maybe our universe is butted from another universe leaving an umbilical cord. Well, that umbilical cord is called a wormhole.

Using adult stem cells drawn from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood system cells, scientists have discovered new treatments for scores of diseases and conditions such as Parkinson's disease, juvenile diabetes, and spinal cord injuries.

When I was born, the umbilical cord came wrapped around my neck, so when I came out, I wasn't breathing. The cord had cut off my oxygen - not the entire time, just at the end, when my mom was giving birth. When I came out, I wasn't conscious, so they had to work on bringing me back. It was a crazy moment.

Everybody is talking about cord cutting. It's not about the cord. It's the content.

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.

I have arthritis. The space around my spinal cord has become compressed.

The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds.

Cut the umbilical cord to yesterday. Although we can't change history, we change the effect the past has on the future.

Spiritual is hooked up to the invisible umbilical cord of my Lord, Kumbiya.

Over the next ten years, everything that has a cord is going to have data in it.

Friendship, awareness, happiness, all of the arts of the good life, are brilliant beads strung on the golden cord of love.

Bind together your spare hours by the cord of some definite purpose.

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

Hopefully, somebody who's hearing my music, it's relatable to them, and it strikes a cord with them.

Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk?

There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire.

I didn't fracture my neck, I didn't break it, but technically it's actually worse. The ligament holding the C2 ruptured, so my disc hit my spinal cord.

He solved at a stroke the great question of the direction of nerve-currents in their travel through brain and spinal cord.

What makes spinal-cord injuries as devastating as they are is that everything about them plays out in absolutes: they are instantaneous, utterly disabling and horribly permanent.

The last step in parental love involves the release of the beloved; the willing cutting of the cord that would otherwise keep the child in a state of emotional dependence.

My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash.

You cannot sleep with the enemy and be successful...Every cord that binds you to failure, every cord that binds you to fear, you gotta cut it!

I was a kid, 12 or something, when the Partridge Family was big on TV. I liked the curly cord running from the bass to the amps, which were real fancy. That cord looked so cool. I said, 'Wow! I gotta play something like that!'

We have created a new demonstration program to allow families with a sick child who could be helped with a cord blood transplant from a sibling to bank cord blood from newborns should they decide to have another child.

I was an ugly kid; when I was born, after the doctor cut the cord, he hung himself.

Wireless is freedom. It's about being unleashed from the telephone cord and having the ability to be virtually anywhere when you want to be.

Its been studied to the point where we know that the impact on humans would be from consuming the most infected parts of the cow; that is, the brain and the spinal cord.

She closed her eyes and jumped. For a moment she felt herself hang suspended, free of everything. Then gravity took over, and she plunged toward the floor. Instinctively she pulled her arms and legs in, keeping her eyes squeezed shut. The cord pulled taut and she rebounded, flying back up before falling again. As her velocity slowed, she opened her eyes and found herself dangling at the end of the cord, about five feet above Jace. He was grinning. 'Nice', he said. 'As graceful as a falling snowflake.

I bought an electric-powered chain saw with a plug-in cord so if I run away fast enough, you can only chase me so far.

I'm not saying I'm smarter than Steve Jobs was, but I would have made the iPhone charger cord twice as long.

In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices

In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.

It's been studied to the point where we know that the impact on humans would be from consuming the most infected parts of the cow; that is, the brain and the spinal cord.

No man beholds his mother's womb Yet who denies it's there? Coiled To the navel of the world is that Endless cord that links us all To the great Origin. If I lose my way. The trailing cord will bring me to the roots.

For people who like peace and quiet: a phoneless cord.

The Golden Gate Bridge should have a long bungee cord for people who aren't quite ready to commit suicide but want to get in a little practice.

We are financially strong. We are self-sustaining. We don't have an umbilical cord that we are concerned about.

The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.