Offspring Quotes
165 Offspring quotes by 144 unique authors
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[M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to destroy us out…
— Moderata Fonte
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A typical National World Weekly would tell the world how Jesus' face was seen on a Big Mac bun bought by someone from Des Moines,…
— Neil Gaiman
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...to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training…
— John Stuart Mill
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Antoine St. Exupery once mourned the loss of a man and the secret treasures that he held inside him. I loved Exupery; I will read…
— Sylvia Plath
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The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash…
— Victor Hugo
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There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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In any event, parents never underestimated the abilities of their own children. Quite the reverse. Sometimes it was well nigh impossible for a teacher to…
— Roald Dahl
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Everyone knew there were wolves in the mountains, but they seldom came near the village-the modern wolves were the offspring of ancestors that had survived…
— Terry Pratchett
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Faeries are fallen angels," said Dorothea, "cast down out of heaven for their pride." "That's the legend," Jace said. "It's also said that they're the…
— Cassandra Clare
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Without security, civilization is cramped and dwarfed. Without security, there can be no freedom. Nor shall I say too much, when I declare that security,…
— Charles Sumner
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I would rather be the offspring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth.
— Thomas Huxley
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'Time's noblest offspring is the last.' This line of Bishop Berkeley's expresses the real cause of the belief in progress in the animal creation.
— Charles Lyell
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As you get older, subconsciously you start thinking about mortality and protecting your offspring. It opens up a whole new avenue of life experiences.
— Kevin Nealon
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Tell me the size of a mammal and I can tell you, to about 85 per cent level, pretty much everything about its physiology and…
— Geoffrey West
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Europeans are forever the offspring of Machiavelli, trapped in a historical rollercoaster that can bring us a monarchy-toppling French Revolution and then a few years…
— Loretta Napoleoni
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If we could honestly promise young couples that we knew how to give them offspring with superior character, why should we assume they would decline?…
— James D. Watson
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In my experience, there are plenty of bad middle-class parents: those who put their own lives and careers before those of their children and make…
— Martin Jacques
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Life and the universe compare to each other like a child and a parent, parent and offspring.
— Dimitar Sasselov
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God truly is our Father, the Father of the spirits of all mankind. We are his literal offspring and are formed in his image. We…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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Fertility is measured by offspring, not by honours.
— Alexander Grothendieck
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We met The Cult and were talking to them for a while. We went a few places with Offspring.
— Daniel Johns
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The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected; and that…
— Robert Casey
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Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that…
— Peter De Vries
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It is only by spring that the death of the autumns returns. What about winter, which is death? When the pure snow white covers the…
— Sorin Cerin
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Man has to wake up from this sleep and to understand that he has a way though which he can end this vileness called human…
— Sorin Cerin
Who Wrote These Offspring Quotes
144 authors contributed a total of 165 Offspring Quotes, led by these top contributors: