Top 305 Offspring Quotes & Sayings

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

Despair is most often the offspring of ill-preparedness.

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.

Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.

The majority of great men are the offspring of unhappy marriages.

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

A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.

Calumny is the offspring of Envy.

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

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

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

Life is the offspring of death.

We have at least learned that the offspring of presidents don't necessarily make good politicians themselves.

The Woman' came off the back of a film called 'Offspring' in which I played the same character.

Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures.

Additional problems are the offspring of poor solutions.

Channel Ten is extremely proud of 'Offspring' and could not be more supportive of us.

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

So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.

Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.

Let ignorance reproduce itself until it is weary of its own offspring.

I do believe that there is something at the core of protecting your offspring - the love of a mother, you just don't get in the way of it.

Peace the offspring is of Power.

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.

Slavery is the offspring of darkness.

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

There's a lot of levity to 'Offspring' and I just love that the costumes reflect that.

Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.

oblivion has been noticed as the offspring of silence.

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.

The promise of God is that you are His son. Her offspring. Its likeness. His equal. Ah...here is where you get hung up. You can accept "His son," "offspring," "likeness," but you recoil at being called "His equal." It is too much to accept. Too much bigness, too much wonderment-too much responsibility. For if you are God's equal, that means nothing is being done to you-and all things are created by you. There can be no more victims and no more villains-only outcomes of your thought about a thing.

Hail holy light, offspring of heav'n firstborn!

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

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

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

If from thy secret bed Of luxury unbidden offspring rise, Let them be kindly welcom'd to the day.

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

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

I would rather be the offspring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth.

What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

Dogmas are the toys that amuse and can satisfy but unreasoning children. They are the offspring of human speculation and prejudiced fancy.

A co-founder is like being somebody's parent: You want to make sure your offspring thrive.

Cyborgs are not reverent; they do not re-member the cosmos. They are wary of holism, but needy for connection- they seem to have a natural feel for united front politics, but without the vanguard party. The main trouble with cyborgs, of course, is that they are the illegitimate offspring of militarism and patriarchal capitalism, not to mention state socialism. But illegitimate offspring are often exceedingly unfaithful to their origins.

The basic formulation, or bare-bones mechanics, of natural selection is a disarmingly simple argument, based on three undeniable facts (overproduction of offspring, variation, and heritability) and one syllogistic inference (natural selection, or the claim that organisms enjoying differential reproductive success will, on average, be those variants that are fortuitously better adapted to changing local environments, and that these variants will then pass their favored traits to offspring by inheritance).

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.

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

Once you've raised a child to adulthood, you can only be as demanding as your offspring allow.

No free country has ever been without Parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom.

Fertility is measured by offspring, not by honours.

It is a retrogression when human beings begin to insist on uniform, on one-mindedness, on conditioning their offspring so that all their reactions are automatic.

We met The Cult and were talking to them for a while. We went a few places with Offspring.

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

True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.

Kings and queens are expected to have offspring to carry on the name. There are no such demands on American presidents, but there is an expectation. There is a hope.

If I do my job well, then God will smile on my offspring and on their offspring. I'm sure my father is seeing a blessing in me.

Lasting happiness is the offspring of endurance.

True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.

Doubt is the offspring of knowledge: the savage never doubts at all.

Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you're not. My father thought I was the densest offspring he could have produced.