Offspring Quotes

• It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. 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 generations.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Spiritual, Emotional

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.

  Joseph Franklin Rutherford

  Men, House, Earth

  Joseph Franklin Rutherford (1928). “Reconciliation: a plain statement of the gracious provision Jehovah has made to bring all men into full harmony with Himself that the obedient ones may have everlasting life on earth in contentment and complete happiness”

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• Despair is most often the offspring of ill-preparedness.

  Donald E. Williams, Jr.

  Survival, Despair, Preparedness

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• The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

  Mark Twain

  Pride, Vanity, Arrogance

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.406, Courier Corporation

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• 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 money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Parent, Usury

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.32, Aristotle

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• True emotions and sincere words never perish. The great heart of humanity gladly receives and embalms every true utterance of the humblest of its offspring.

  Elias Lyman Magoon

  Heart, Humanity, Utterance

  Elias Lyman Magoon (1849). “Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom”, p.219

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• Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility; for all that is celestial, all genius, is the offspring of immortality.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Hero, Men, Genius

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• Capital brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays the golden eggs.

  Karl Marx

  Eggs, Golden, Occult

  Karl Marx, Eden Paul (1933). “Capital”

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• The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

  Tony Robbins

  Opportunity, Preparation, Luck

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Feb 03, 2015

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• I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

  James Whistler

  Heaven, Intelligence, Genius

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• Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

  Karl Marx

  Money, Eggs, Golden

  "Capital, Volume I". Book by Karl Marx, Vol. I, Ch. 4, pp. 171 - 172, 1867.

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• Hail holy light, offspring of heav'n firstborn!

  John Milton

  Light, Holy, Hail

  1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.3, l.5-6.

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• 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 generations.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Love, Spiritual, Years

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• I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Kings, New York, Hands

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It should soon be possible dramatically to increase the intelligence and life span of a few individuals. They and their offspring could become a master race. Evolution pays no regard to social justice. It was not fair on the Neanderthals they were replaced by modern humans.

  Stephen Hawking

  Race, Engineering, Justice

  "Gods of science: Stephen Hawking and Brian Cox discuss mind over matter". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2010.

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• The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

  Peter De Vries

  Inspirational, Marriage, Children

  Tunnel of Love (1954) ch. 8

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• Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.

  Charles Macklin

  Law, Action, Bad Actions

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• Animals engage in a struggle for existence; for resources, to avoid being eaten and to breed. Environmental factors influence organisms to develop new characteristics to ensure survival, thus transforming into new species. Animals that survive to breed can pass on their successful characteristics to offspring.

  Al-Jahiz

  Struggle, Successful, Animal

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• I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family. I'll be around a long time. A thousand years from now, a whole township of my offspring will be biting sour apples in the gumwood shade.

  Ray Bradbury

  Family, Years, Apples

  Ray Bradbury (1980). “The Stories of Ray Bradbury”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• All parents want their offspring to be exemplars of virtue and achievement and happiness. But most of all, we want desperately for you to be safe - safe from disease and violence and self-destruction.

  Estelle Ramey

  Self, Achievement, Parent

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• With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Law, Genius, Talent

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.300

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• Christianity has held back any further advances in human consciousness for the past thousand years. And for the past century it's been in direct conflict with its illegitimate offspring, Communism (again with a capital C). Both ask the individual to sacrifice his self-interest to the higher goals of the organization. (Which is okay by me as long as it's voluntary; but as soon as either becomes too big - and takes on that damned capital C - they stop asking for cooperation and start demanding it.)
  Any higher states of human enlightenment have been sacrificed between these two monoliths.

  David Gerrold

  Sacrifice, Past, Self

  "The Man Who Folded Himself". Book by David Gerrold, 1973.

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• Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect of spirit and resolution, and oftentimes of honesty, too. I would not despair unless I saw misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by necessity.

  Jeremy Collier

  Honesty, Book, Mean

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• For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Art, Children, Simplicity

  Oliver Goldsmith (1840). “The vicar of Wakefield, accentuirt mit Wörterbuche von K.R. Schaub”, p.89

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• oblivion has been noticed as the offspring of silence.

  Hannah More

  Silence, Oblivion, Has Beens

  Hannah More (1853). “The Works of Hannah More: Practical piety”, p.268

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