Quotes About Reproduction
Reproduction is more pleasurable than death.
~ Herman E. Daly
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What happiness do you have? Rutting and breeding. You'd go mad if you accepted the truth of what you are. You are nothing. You barely exist at all. Your only purpose is to create more of your kind before you die some pointless and agonizing death.
~ Holly Black
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The word 'love,' used in connection with the reproduction of our species, is the most odious blasphemy taught in our times.
~ Honore de Balzac
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The most perennial and the best materialized of human ideas, the idea by which man reproduces himself by creating outside of himself the fictitious being called Property, that mental demon, drove its steel claws perpetually into his heart.
~ Honore de Balzac
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Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.
~ Lewis Thomas
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Apparently, the moment your ovaries noticed you were worried about becoming pregnant, they refused to cooperate. Oh well, if you're going to get all huffy about it, we'll just close down.
~ Liane Moriarty
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Now that children don't till your fields or take you in when you're incontinent, there is no sensible reason to have them, and it's amazing that with the advent of effective contraception anyone chooses to reproduce at all.
~ Lionel Shriver
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Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.
~ Robert Nozick
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Just like my straight friends, I am repeatedly asked when I plan to have kids, and have been told many times, by various branches of my bloodline, that 'even lesbians can have babies these days.'
~ Beth Ditto
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Even under normal conditions, how we can distinguish various events, various experiences, and be able to reproduce it later is, of course, a very interesting question and, I think, one that we face in day to day life.
~ Susumu Tonegawa
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It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept. It is the idea that is being reproduced. Anyone who understands the work of art owns it. We all own the Mona Lisa.
~ Sol LeWitt
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Even if it had not been possible to reproduce the disease in animals and consequently to verify the hypothesis, this simple observation would have been sufficient to demonstrate the way in which the disease was propagated.
~ Charles Jules Henry Nicole
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Women should have as many children as possible
~ Jeff Hawkins
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Was this what the human reproductive urge was like, a pointless and powerful desire to replicate wonderful, irreplaceable me, even when the me in question was a monster who truly had no right to live among humans? That would certainly explain how a great many of the monumentally unpleasant cretins I encountered every day came to be.
~ Jeff Lindsay
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Pregnancy humbles husbands. After an initial rush of male pride they quickly recognise the minor role that nature had assigned them in the drama of reproduction.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
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This has all been verified. Under the microscope. The male sperms are faster." "I bet they're stupider, too.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
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Uncle Pete made it clear: to have a girl baby, a couple should "have sexual congress twenty-four hours prior to ovulation." That way, the swift male sperm would rush in and die off. The female sperm, sluggish but more reliable, would arrive just as the egg dropped.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
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She sees now that the problem of the girl will never be solved, not as long as people have the capacity to reproduce themselves. Family is the problem that recurs.
~ Jesse Kellerman
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I could see the works just living in reproductions. The work lives on like fantasy. Some live even better as just an image.
~ Urs Fischer
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Occupy the earth with the multiplication of yourself
~ Sunday Adelaja
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Time should be reproduced and multiplied
~ Sunday Adelaja
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Because the unique individual cannot reproduce himself either physically or spiritually, nature discards him as useless. Nature is only interested in reproducing, and from time to time throwing out a "sport" or unique specimen. This specimen, not able to reproduce itself, is finished with evolution, and is not interested in making of itself a model for others.
~ U.G. Krishnamurti
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