Quotes About Descendants

How could he deny the jewels of posterity within his loins?

still wanted those genetic characteristics carried by the Atreides.

Necessary rules and laws keep you from adapting. Inevitably, everything comes crashing down. It's like bankers thinking they buy the future. 'Power in my time! To hell with my descendants!'" "What are descendants doing for me?

Las posturas necesarias te impiden adaptarte. Inevitablemente, crecen de forma inestable, inclinándose e inclinándose en un ángulo cada vez más acusado hasta que terminan derrumbándose. Es como los banqueros pensando que compran el futuro. «¡El poder en mi tiempo!» «¡Al diablo con mis descendientes!»

Pentru orice exist? un înlocuitor,artifical,jalnic,ÅŸi pentru str?moÅŸi,c?snicie ÅŸi urmaÅŸi.Îi creezi tu însuÅ£i în chinurile astea,ÅŸi dac? nu cumva ai pierit tu însuÅ£i în aceste chinuri,pân? la urm? lipsa de speran?? a unor asemenea false leacuri tot are s? te omoare.

Las decisiones que tomamos hoy tendrán consecuencias en las vidas de nuestros descendientes, nación y civilización. Jesucristo prometió que el poder del infierno no derrotaría a su Iglesia, pero no dijo que no vencería a la Iglesia en Occidente. Depende de nosotros y de las decisiones que tomemos aquí y ahora.

[On slaves and their descendants:] They are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word "citizens" in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States.

the clash between Austin Dickinson and his wife, who had been the poet's intimate and her keenest reader. Out of this clash a lasting feud developed, and it was the opponents in this feud, their allies and warring descendants, who devised the image of the poet as her fame grew and endured.

Once The Evergreens and then the Homestead opened their doors to Mabel Todd, emotions—a lethal mix of passion, jealousy and rage—erupted during the last years of the poet's life, perpetuated by descendants and the authorities they co-opted or persuaded.

Não tive filhos, não transmiti a nenhuma criatura o legado da nossa miséria".

The Sayyids and Qureishis are groups peculiar to Islam, being (ostensibly) descendants of the Prophet and his clan, and therefore of Arabic origin. Yet their role and status in South Asian Muslim society has certain limited affinities to that of the Brahmins in South Asian Hindu society.

And truly, God does   not make known his will to us, that the knowledge of it may perish with   us; but that we may be his witnesses to posterity and that they may   deliver the knowledge received through us, from hand to hand, (as we   say,) to their descendants.

Children are the inheritance of the Lord to us in this life and also in eternity. Eternal life is not only to have forever our descendants from this life. It is also to have eternal increase.

Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothers they have never sinned, have they? They are apostles, they are the descendants of priests; one can only wonder from what source they draw their indignation, and above all how much they have pocketed to do this, and in any case what it has done for them.

Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.

Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all too easily forgotten what the acting legacy is.

There are, after all, between seventy-five thousand and a hundred thousand descendants of the Ball-family slaves. If I were to begin apologizing to every one of these families, it would quickly become a meaningless act.

There are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous communities and nations, comprising nearly three million people in the United States. These are the descendants of the fifteen million original inhabitants of the land, the majority of whom were farmers who lived in towns.

The most revered presidents—Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Wilson, both Roosevelts, Truman, Kennedy, Reagan, Clinton, Obama—have each advanced populist imperialism while gradually increasing inclusion of other groups beyond the core of descendants of old settlers into the ruling mythology.

El control de las mujeres y sus descendientes ha sido la piedra de toque de todo régimen represivo de este planeta. Napoleón y su «carne de cañón», la esclavitud y la mercancía humana, una práctica eternamente renovada: ambas encajan aquí. A quienes promueven la maternidad forzosa habría que preguntarles: Cui bono? ¿A quién beneficia? A veces a un sector, a veces a otro. Nunca a nadie.

The war at Troy seemed to grow in song, poetry, and story all the while. As it faded from living memory, it grew larger and larger. Men claimed descent from one or the other of the heroes, or, failing that, anyone who had fought in the war, which now assumed the stature of a clash between the gods and the titans.

You know, I really hate Romans, but I have to say their descendants make one fine automobile. (Kyrian)

The Isaac stories open (cf. v.11) with a final statement regarding the line of Ishmael, consisting of a genealogy of the twelve leaders of Ishmael's clan, a report of the length of his life, and a report of his death. The number twelve appears again to be a deliberate attempt to set these individuals off as founders of a new and separate people (see comment on 22:20 – 24). The descendants of Ishmael continue to play a part in Genesis (28:9; 36:3; 37:27 – 28; 39:1).

The statement that Abraham's descendants shall "possess the gate of their enemies" is the promise of spiritual and cultural dominance of the godly covenant people.