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Quotes About Beget

The command of Yahweh: 'Be fruitful and multiply,' is an entirely patriarchal one; he is not invoking the Great Mother but bidding his sons beget still more sons.
~ Adrienne Rich
Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Life begets life by its very nature. By the same token, inspired men inspire.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
The word of God—it is both seed to beget, and food to nourish, holiness begotten in the heart. Every part of it contributes to this design abundantly.
~ William Gurnall
If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwanted government intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision to bear or beget a child.
~ WILLIAM J. BRENNAN
At one blood labors to beget, Spirits as like as it can, Because such figures need to knit, that subtle knot which makes us man.
~ John Donne
Apart from a few examples of exhaustive melancholy, and a few unequalled suicides, men are merely puppets stuffed with red globules in order to beget history and its grimaces.
~ Emil M. Cioran
A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.
~ Bertrand de Jouvenel
An acknowledged love sanctifies every little freedom; and little freedoms beget great ones.
~ Samuel Richardson
Love begets love. This torment is my joy.
~ Theodore Roethke
I didn't realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave.
~ Karen Russell
equally with every felicity, all miserable events do naturally beget their like.
~ Herman Melville
The urge to kill, like the urge to beget, Is blind and sinister. Its craving is set Today on the flesh of a hare: tomorrow it can Howl the same way for the flesh of a man.
~ Andrei Voznesensky
The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other
~ Charles Caleb Colton
The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Love evokes in us all an unconscious memory of the beauty of the Ideas, and this memory maddens us; we feel possessed by a frenzied yearning to couple and to "beget in the beautiful," as
~ Unknown