Biographies Quote by Michael Holroyd

My child, seek those things which make for peace. Cease to stir up the King against the Church, and urge upon him a better…

— Anonymous

The offspring of virtue is perseverance. The fruit and offspring of perseverance is habit and child of habit is character.

— Anonymous

Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more.

— Benjamin Franklin

Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect…

— Jeremy Collier

When white men were willing to put their own offspring in the kitchen and corn field and allowed them to be sold into bondage…

— Rebecca Latimer Felton

That's my first job on this earth is to make sure that my offspring are as smart as they can be and as well…

— Trevor Ariza

Despair is most often the offspring of ill-preparedness.

— Anonymous

Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain.

— Roger L'Estrange

Be circumspect in your dealings, and let the seed you plant be the offspring of prudence and care; thus fruit follows the fair blossom,…

— Hosea Ballou

Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility; for all that is celestial, all genius, is…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

— Miguel de Unamuno