Progeny Quotes

• You are the nest. You are the hatchling. You are the chrysalis. You are the progeny. You are the rot that falls from stars. You may not understand what I mean. You will.

  Rick Yancey

  Stars, Fall, Mean

  Rick Yancey (2011). “The Isle of Blood”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.

  Lewis Thomas

  Cells, Resemblance Is, Whales

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• And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Grief, Heart, Echoes

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.5, Wordsworth Editions

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• But it is a myth to assume that the larger amount of early stimulation you provide, the more beneficial it will be. The truth is that babies can be overstimulated--which is what many parents, intent on beginning to groom their progeny for college in the cradle, end up doing.

  Julius Segal

  Baby, College, Parent

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• For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

  John Milton

  Life, Book, Soul

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 4

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• Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.

  James Lovelock

  Shapes, Favors, Environment

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• The law of nature instructs most animals to cherish and educate their infant progeny. The law of reason inculcates to the human species the returns of filial piety.

  Edward Gibbon

  Animal, Law, Return

  Edward Gibbon, François Guizot (1859). “Guizot's Gibbon: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.86

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• Tremendous purity, tremendous renunciation, is the one secret of spirituality. “Neither through wealth, nor through progeny, but through renunciation alone is immortality to be reached,” say the Vedas. “Sell all that thou hast and give to poor, and follow me,” says the Christ. So all great saints and prophets have expressed it, and have carried it out in their lives. How can great spirituality come without renunciation?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving, Secret, Vedas

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1589, Manonmani Publishers

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• Either Stone Age man was a technological wizard, who carefully removed his technological achievements so as not to upset his inferior progeny, or our population dwindled from a once astronomical size to the mere three billions of today.

  Heinz von Foerster

  Men, Upset, Age

  "Population Density and Growth". "Science", Vol 133, June 16, 1961.

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• It is only the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence.The story is our escort;without it,we are blind.Does the blind man own his escort?No,neither do we the story;rather,it is the story that owns us.

  Chinua Achebe

  Men, Doe, Cactus

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from May 29, 2011

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• The partisans of eugenic planning hear that other music, the music that says that there shall be nothing random in the world, nothing independent, nothing moved by its own vitality, nothing out of keeping with some idea: even our children must not be our progeny, but our creation.

  Charles Frankel

  Children, Independent, Ideas

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• For as soon as the procreative faculty is thwarted and the number of births diminished, the natural struggle for existence which allows only healthy and strong individuals to survive is replaced by a sheer craze to 'save' feeble and even diseased creatures at any cost. And thus the seeds are sown for a human progeny which will become more and more miserable from one generation to another, as long as Nature's will is scorned.

  Adolf Hitler

  Strong, Struggle, Numbers

  Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)”, p.152, eKitap Projesi

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• Eventually we must leave Earth-at least a certain number of our progeny must as our sun approaches the end of its solar life cycle. But just as terrestrial explorers have always led the way for settlers, this will also happen extraterrestrially. Earth is our cradle, not our final destiny.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Future, Destiny, Numbers

  Edgar Mitchell (2009). “The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.415, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We are mortgaging ourselves to foreigners on a scale that would make George Washington cry. Every day - every single day - we borrow a billion dollars from foreigners to buy petroleum from abroad, often from countries that hate us. We are the beggars of the world, financing our lavish lifestyle by selling our family heirlooms and by enslaving our progeny with the need to service the debt.

  Ben Stein

  Country, Hate, Dollars

  Ben Stein (2010). “The Real Stars: In Today's America, Who Are the True Heroes?”, p.103, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Who are those ever multiplying authors that with unparalleled fecundity are overstocking the world with their quick succeeding progeny? They are novel-writers.

  Hannah More

  World, Succeed, Novel

  Hannah More (1841). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.345

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• I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Daughter, Learning, Mean

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Leigh Hunt (1846). “The Dramatic Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan: With a Biographical and Critical Sketch”, p.6

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• Hear all ye angels, progeny of light, Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.

  John Milton

  Angel, Light, Thrones

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 5, l. 600

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• Parents do not owe their progeny an inheritance no matter how much money they have. One of the surest ways to produce loafers and freeloaders is to let children know that their future is assured.

  Ann Landers

  Children, Parent, Inheritance

  Ann Landers (1979). “The Ann Landers Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually”

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• Our bread and water are of one table: the progeny of Adam are as a single soul.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Oneness, Water, Soul

  Muhammad Iqbal (2012). “Javid-Nama (RLE Iran B)”, p.65, Taylor & Francis

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• Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will touch, fuse, and the two nuclei will then fuse as well, and the new hybrid cell will now divide into monstrous progeny. Naked cells, lacking self-respect, do not seem to have any sense of self.

  Lewis Thomas

  Opportunity, Two, Self

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• Whoever would like to cherish such adders and puny devils - who are the worst enemies of Christ and us all - to befriend them and to do them honour simply in order to be cheated, plundered, robbed, disgraced, and forced to howl and curse and suffer every kind of evil, to him I would commend the Jews. And if this is not enough, let him tell the Jews to use his mouth as a privy, or else crawl into the Jew's hind parts, and there worship the holy thing, so as afterwards to be able to boast of having been merciful, and of having helped the Devil and his progeny to blaspheme our dear Lord.

  Martin Luther

  Worst Enemy, Order, Dear Lord

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• Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.

  Horace

  Son, Giving, Age

  Horace (1903). “Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose”

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• A half century from now, our grandchildren are likely to look back at the era of mass employment in the market with the same sense of utter disbelief as we look upon slavery and serfdom in former times. The very idea that a human being's worth was measured almost exclusively by his or her productive output of goods and services and material wealth will seem primitive, even barbaric, and be regarded as a terrible loss of human value to our progeny living in a highly automated world where much of life is lived on the Collaborative Commons.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Loss, Grandchildren, Ideas

  Jeremy Rifkin (2014). “The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism”, p.117, Palgrave Macmillan

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• The growth of property and the desire for its transmission to children was, in reality, the moving power which brought in monogamy to insure legitimate heirs, and to limit their number to the actual progeny of the married pair.

  Lewis Henry Morgan

  Wisdom, Children, Moving

  Lewis Henry Morgan (1877). “Ancient Society”, p.477, University of Arizona Press

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• The final end of abortion in America will come when every human being begins to appreciate his own life as a gift from God and the lives of those entrusted to his care as the true blessings they are.  A culture that affirms life will not practice contraception nor will it murder its progeny.

  Judie Brown

  Blessing, Practice, America

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