Offspring Quotes - Page 10

• All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Knowledge, Perception

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.969, Delphi Classics

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• The Constitution itself, plainly written as it is, the safeguard of our federative compact, the offspring of concession and compromise, binding together in the bonds of peace and union this great and increasing family of free and independent States, will be the chart by which I shall be directed.

  James K. Polk

  Peace, Independent, Together

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• Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.

  Isaac Newton

  Silence, Meditation, Truth Is

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• 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

  Wise, Father, Pregnancy

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4176, Delphi Classics

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• Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.

  Guru Nanak

  Religious, Wife, Faithful

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

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Past, Parent, Advice

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• Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Love, Heartbreak, Sarcastic

  Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1861). “Curiosities of literature”, p.119

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• My purpose is to teach and demonstrate what is possible. To demonstrate love of God and good. Remember what my role is as a woman: to be... good. My role as a mother: to teach, support and nurture my offspring. My role as a grandmother: to remind everybody - right where you are, God is.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Mother, Support, Roles

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• What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active, strong, and subtle survive and the weaker go to the wall; conditions that put a premium upon the loyal alliance of capable men, upon self-restraint, patience, and decision. And the institution of the family, and the emotions that arise therein, the fierce jealousy, the tenderness for offspring, parental self-devotion, all found their justification and support in the imminent dangers of the young.

  H. G. Wells

  Strong, Wall, Men

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• 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 a Divine Providence as any of the miracles recorded in the Old and New Testament.

  Benjamin Rush

  Inspiration, Believe, Patriotic

  Benjamin Rush (1951). “Letters”

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• 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

  Mother, Children, Father

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1825). “The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.108

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• 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 greater for him than was that of Notharctus or Eohippus or a trilobite, each in his own day, but because of man's unique abilities it is the greatest responsibility that has ever rested upon any of the earth's offspring.

  Kirtley F. Mather

  Responsibility, Science, Unique

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• 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 not, like the fabled Goddess of Wisdom, the offspring of a single brain. It ought to be regarded as the work of many heads and many hands.

  James Madison

  Hands, Giving, Brain

  James Madison (1867). “1829-1836”, p.341

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• 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 one another, it will have been increased through natural selection; for those communities, which included the greatest number of the most sympathetic members, would flourish best, and rear the greatest number of offspring.

  Charles Darwin

  Animal, Numbers, Community

  Charles Darwin (1875). “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex”, p.107

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• One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.

  Carl Sagan

  Education, Children, Giving

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• While parents possess the original key to their offspring's experience, teachers have a spare key. They, too, can open or close the minds and hearts of children.

  Haim Ginott

  Teacher, Children, Heart

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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 for its mind is a moral crime, both against the unfortunate offspring and against society

  John Stuart Mill

  Children, Mind, Training

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.233, Hackett Publishing

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• Nature has a way sometimes of reminding Man of just how small he is. She occasionally throws up terrible offspring's of our pride and carelessness to remind us of how puny we really are in the face of a tornado, an earthquake, or a Godzilla. The reckless ambitions of Man are often dwarfed by their dangerous consequences. For now, Godzilla - that strangely innocent and tragic monster - has gone to earth. Whether he returns or not, or is never again seen by human eyes, the things he has taught us remain...

  Raymond Burr

  Ambition, Eye, Pride

  "Fictional character: Steve Martin". "Godzilla 1985", www.imdb.com. 1984.

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• You are a child of God. He is father of your spirit. Spiritually you are of noble birth, the offspring of the King of Heaven. Fix that truth in your mind and hold to it. However many generations in your mortal ancestry, no matter what race or people you represent, the pedigree of your spirit can be written on a single line. You are a child of God!

  Boyd K. Packer

  Kings, Children, Father

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• There is no difference between the worry of a human mother and an animal mother for their offspring. A mother's love does not derive from the intellect but from the emotions, in animals just as in humans.

  Maimonides

  Mother, Animal, Differences

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• 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 ever lived have died without viable offspring, but not a single one of your ancestors, going back to the dawn of life on Earth, suffered that normal misfortune. You spring from an unbroken line of winners.

  Daniel Dennett

  Life, Spring, Perspective

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• Impious! forbear thus the first general hail. To disappoint, Increase and multiply, To shed thy blossoms thro' the desert air, And sow thy perish'd offspring in the winds.

  John Armstrong

  Wind, Air, Firsts

  John Armstrong, “The Oeconomy Of Love”

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• It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.

  Christian Scriver

  Dream, Men, Self

  Christian Scriver (1857). “Gotthold's Emblems: or Invisible things understood by things that are made. Tr. by R. Menzies”, p.128

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• Apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.

  Margaret Sanger

  Population, Inheritance, May

  Margaret Sanger, Esther Katz (2007). “The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger: Birth control comes of age, 1928-1939”, Univ of Illinois Pr

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• God not only loves his people but delights in each one of us. He takes great pleasure in us. He's actually blessed in keeping and delivering us. I see this kind of parental pleasure in my wife, Gwen, whenever one of our grandchildren calls. Gwen lights up like a Christmas tree when she has one of our dear little ones on the line. Nothing can get her off the phone. Even if I told her the President was at our door, she'd shoo me away and keep talking. How could I ever accuse my heavenly Father of delighting in me less than I do in my own offspring?

  David Wilkerson

  Father, Blessed, Grandchildren

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