Offspring Quotes

165 quotes by 151 authors

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents. — Samuel Butler
I do not believe that the Constitution was the offspring of inspiration, but I am as satisfied that it is as much the work of… — Benjamin Rush
With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth. — Charles Caleb Colton
Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before. — Millard Fillmore
So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things. — Johannes Kepler
Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality. When… — Bill Moyers
As far as this life is concerned, [Jesus] was born of Mary and of Elohim; he came here as an offspring of that Holy Man… — Bruce R. McConkie
Maternity is on the face of it an unsociable experience. The selfishness that a woman has learned to stifle or to dissemble where she alone… — Emily James Smith Putnam
The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind. — Miguel de Cervantes
The Hindu faith and the information for its sacred books, the Vedas, were taken to the Indian subcontinent by the Aryans from the Caucasus Mountains,… — David Icke
The responsibility which rests upon man is proportional to the ability which he possesses and the opportunity which he faces. Perhaps that responsibility is no… — Kirtley F. Mather
This Government, the offspring of your own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the… — George Washington
No free country has ever been without Parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom. — James Madison
I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family. I'll be around a long time. A thousand years from now, a… — Ray Bradbury
You give me a credit to which I have no claim in calling me "the writer of the Constitution of the United States." This was… — James Madison
Computers bootstrap their own offspring, grow so wise and incomprehensible that their communiquÃ©s assume the hallmarks of dementia: unfocused and irrelevant to the barely-intelligent creatures… — Peter Watts
Are we not witnessing a strange tableau of survival whenever a bird alights on the head of a crocodile, bringing together the evolutionary offspring of… — Anna Lee
Nature has a way sometimes of reminding Man of just how small he is. She occasionally throws up terrible offsprings of our pride and carelesness,… — Raymond Burr
In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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