Fertility Quotes
80 quotes by 64 authors
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Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
— Bjork
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Fertility of the soil is the future of civilization.
— Albert Howard
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Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and…
— Samuel Griswold Goodrich
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As agonizing a disease as cancer is, I do not think it can be said that our civilization is threatened by it. ... But a…
— Carl Sagan
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We should not minimize the great outstanding service of Eugenics for critical and diagnostic investigations. It demonstrates ... that uncontrolled fertility is universally correlated with…
— Margaret Sanger
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It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wring…
— George Sand
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On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.
— Margaret Sanger
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Fertility of imagination and abundance of guesses at the truth are among the first requisites of discovery.
— William Stanley Jevons
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A flower's fragrance declares to all the world that it is fertile, available, and desirable, its sex organs oozing with nectar. Its smell reminds us…
— Diane Ackerman
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People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are just staggering.
— Michael Zaslow
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The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional possibilities for coercive…
— John Holdren
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Also known as May Eve, May Day, and Walpurgis Night, happens at the beginning of May. It celebrates the height of Spring and the flowering…
— Selena Fox
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The fate of the soil system depends on society's willingness to intervene in the market place, and to forego some of the short-term benefits that…
— Eugene Odum
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The spiritual quality of earth: eternally pregnant and containing in its fertility the unwritten cipher of cosmic lore.
— Lady Frieda Harris
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The basic trouble with all long-range population projections is that they are driven by assumptions about birth levels - and there is still no reliable…
— Nicholas Eberstadt
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The crooked little tomato branches, pulpy and pale as if made of cheap green paper, broke under the weight of so much fruit; there was…
— John Updike
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The Great Culling of the human race already has begun. It is being done through chemicals added to our drinking water, food, medicines, and the…
— G. Edward Griffin
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There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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When the soil's fertility is being conserved instead of raped, when village life is a social unity, when pride of craftsmanship returns, when everyone works…
— Henry Williamson
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Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.
— Arthur Keith
Who Wrote These Fertility Quotes
64 authors contributed a total of 80 Fertility Quotes, led by these top contributors: