Offspring Quotes - Page 5

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

  John Climacus

  Perseverance, Children, Character

  Saint John (Climacus) (1982). “John Climacus (CWS)”, p.260, Paulist Press

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• From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.

  Sappho

  Love, Heaven, Earth

  Sappho (1965). “Lyrics in the Original Greek”, Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor books [1965]

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• Additional problems are the offspring of poor decisions. When inquiry and advocacy are combined, the goal is no longer 'to win the argument', but to find the best argument.

  Peter Senge

  Winning, Poor Decisions, Goal

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• When the husband and wife are healthy, and free from inherited weaknesses and diseases that might be transmitted with injury to their offspring the use of contraceptives is to be condemned.

  David O. McKay

  Husband, Wife, Healthy

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• The efforts on the parts of Eastern magazine writers to educate the people of the United States, particularly parents, to the doctrine that they limit the number of their offspring to three or four children, and how this can be accomplished, is both pernicious and an abomination in the sight of the Lord; and it robs both man and his Maker of their glory and increase.

  George F. Richards

  Children, Men, Numbers

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• But the origin of the American Republic is distinguished by peculiar circumstances. Other nations have been driven together by fear and necessity-the governments have generally been the result of a single man's observations; or the offspring of particular interests. In the formation of our constitution, the wisdom of all ages is collected-the legislators of antiquity are consulted-as well as the opinions and interests of the millions who are concerned. In short, it is an empire of reason.

  Noah Webster

  Men, Age, Together

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• Meek-eyed parents hasten down the ramps To greet their offspring, terrible from camps.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Parent, Ramp, Terrible

  Phyllis McGinley (1951). “A Short Walk from the Station”

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• Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Men, Brain

  Victor Hugo (2016). “William Shakespeare”, p.25, Library of Alexandria

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• Rules are the offspring of fear. If everyone trusted and followed their true inner spirit, the world would function flawlessly.

  Alan Cohen

  World, Spirit, Function

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• Those who think that a woman detained at home by her little family is doing nothing, think the reverse of what is true. Scarcely can the godly mother quit her home for a place of worship; but dream not that she is lost to the work of the church; far from it, she is doing the best possible service for her Lord. Mothers, the godly training of your offspring is your first and most pressing duty.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Mother, Dream, Home

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Select Works”, p.375, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The man who forgets does not forgive, he only loses the remembrance; forgiveness is the offspring of a noble heart, of a generous mind, whilst forgetfulness is only the result of a weak memory, or of an easy carelessness.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Memories, Heart, Men

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• When one is consumed by the sorrows of life, three things give him relief: offspring, a wife, and the company of the Lord's devotees.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Giving, Wife

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• The demand that defective people be prevented from propagating equally defective offspring is a demand of the clearest reason and if systematically executed represents the most humane act of mankind.

  Adolf Hitler

  Eugenics, People, Demand

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Huts they made then, and fire, and skins for clothing, And a woman yielded to one man in wedlock... ... Common, to see the offspring they had made; The human race began to mellow then. Because of fire their shivering forms no longer Could bear the cold beneath the covering sky.

  Lucretius

  Men, Sky, Fire

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Anthony M. Esolen (1995). “De rerum natura”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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• 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 to get the hell out of cozy family nest by their teenage offspring. It's we who are made to be independent of them, crash-landing if we don't manage it.

  Rosamund Lupton

  Teenage, Independent, Bird

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• I don't think I realized what was going to be the hardest part of becaming an artist until I dove off the diving board ... first I had to overcome a pre-speculated idea of me. I had to sort of burst through that and introduce myself, and that was the first hurdle, and then now sing in front of everybody, and then that was the second one, and I'm the offspring of - you know, who I'm the offspring of - I had a few hurdles to get through, no doubt about it. But the scales never tipped in the other direction too much.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Artist, Thinking, Doubt

  Source: www.today.com

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• 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 expected to produce uniformity of effect.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Differences, Essentials, May

  Ann Radcliffe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)”, p.124, Delphi Classics

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• Respectability, n. The offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Bank Accounts, Liaison, Respectability

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.183, 谷月社

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• 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 the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.

  Norman Douglas

  Funny, Mother, Children

  Norman Douglas (2014). “South Wind”, p.198, Courier Corporation

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• 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 is six, turned again it is seven and threepence, and so on, till it becomes a hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that the profits rise quicker and quicker. He that kills a breeding sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. He that murders a crown, destroys all that it might have produced, even scores of pounds.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Might, Six

  Benjamin Franklin (1855). “The select works of Benjamin Franklin”, p.360

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• Slavery is the offspring of darkness.

  Simon Bolivar

  Darkness, Slavery

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• 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 of artists.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Live Life, Artist, Musician

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• 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 long as life exists; Innate is eternal, always was and always will be.

  Daniel D. Palmer

  Wise, Long, Lasts

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• 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 retrospect to one we know, than we are able to create a new sense. He whose fancy has conceived an idea of the most beautiful form must have composed it from actual existence.

  Henry Fuseli

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Ideas

  James Barry, John Opie, Henry Fuseli (1848). “Lectures on Painting”, p.358

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• 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 life has to offer.

  Bob Barr

  Parent, Special, Experts

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