Quotes of Offspring - somelinesforyou

“ And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, / Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls; / From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies. ”

- Bible

“ And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day, singing with loud instruments unto the LORD. ”

- Bible

“ People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ Children have more need of models than of critics. ”

- Joseph Joubert

“ 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. ”

- Peter De Vries

“ When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. ”

- Sophia Loren

“ Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth. ”

- Peter Ustinov

“ Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up. ”

- Barbara Bush

“ Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children. ”

- Richard H. Dana

“ Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realize you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully. ”

- Fay Weldon

“ Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own. ”

- Doug Larson

“ Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye. [Lat., L'invidia, figliuol mio, se stessa macera, E si dilegua come agnel per fascino.]. ”

- Jacopo Sannazaro

“ If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either. ”

- Dick Cavett

“ Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't. ”

- L. L. Henderson

“ Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity. ”

- John Adams

“ Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present. ”

- Jean de la Bruyere

“ Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories. ”

- John Wilmot

“ He that spareth his rod hateth his son. ”

- Bible

“ Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. ”

- Bible

“ It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. ”

- Bible

“ To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. ”

- Josh Billings

“ Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th's first. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs. ”

- Bible

“ Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better. ”

- Lorraine Hansberry

“ I want stranded families to know the doors of Texas's public schools are immediately open to your children. ”

- Rick Perry

“ Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring. ”

- Unknown

“ This guy is a bastard. He took advantage of my daughter. ”

- Jane Addams

“ The wolf shall also dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. ”

- Bible
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