Offspring Quotes

165 Offspring quotes by 144 unique authors

It's not the fledgling birds that are thrown out of the nest by their parents and made to fly; it's the parents who are made… — Rosamund Lupton
Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from… — Aristotle
In however complex a manner this feeling may have originated, as it is one of high importance to all those animals which aid and defend… — Charles Darwin
Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of reason, may be… — Ann Radcliffe
Respectability, n. The offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account. — Ambrose Bierce
Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark… — Norman Douglas
Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Five shillings turned… — Benjamin Franklin
Slavery is the offspring of darkness. — Simon Bolivar
I'm so proud that my offspring became a musician. I'm full of awe that we are able to have a whole family live the life… — Maxine Hong Kingston
Innate is a segment of the All-Wise; Educated is an offspring of innate, a servant for its lifetime only. Educated continues with and lasts as… — Daniel D. Palmer
Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen, without… — Henry Fuseli
For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all… — Bob Barr
Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice,… — Henry Ward Beecher
Sharp and fell remorse, the offspring of my sin! Why do you, O God, lacerate my heart so late? Why, O boding cries, that scream… — Pietro Metastasio
Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even… — Nikki Giovanni
Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light And never but… — John Milton
From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious. — Sappho
Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the organisms that have… — Daniel Dennett
All actions and attitudes of children are graceful because they are the luxuriant and immediate offspring of the moment - divested of affectation and free… — Henry Fuseli
As with cows, mares, female camels, slave girls, buffalo cows, she goats, and ewes, it is not the begetter ,or his owner who obtains the… — Guru Nanak
Offspring, friends and relatives flee from a devotee of the Lord: yet those who follow him bring merit to their families through their devotion. — Chanakya
Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Owing to the imperfection of language the offspring is termed a new animal, but it is in truth a branch or elongation of the parent;… — Erasmus Darwin
Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the… — Saint Basil
There are all the offsprings of people who are influenced by punk. It sounds completely different - but it's still rock 'n' roll. When hip-hop… — El-P

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