Quotes About Offspring

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.

Lorsque la semence provient du testicule droit, les fils ressemblent à leur père, et du testicule gauche, à leur mère.

A man's immortality can be found in his children.

The first and most basic evolutionary point is that the primary targets and beneficiaries of sociality are the offspring. Why? Because mammalian babies are immature at birth and will certainly die without care. Baby turtles, after hatching from their eggs, immediately dig their way up out of the sand, scuttle down to the water, and begin to look for food. No parents are anywhere close by, nor are any needed.

produce new species. One set of parents can produce offspring

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.

and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth.

I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.

Abram continued, “Behold, You have given me no offspring, so a servant in my household will be my heir.”

And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”

Then the angel added, “I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count.”

But I will also make a nation of the slave womanís son, because he is your offspring.”

And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”

The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me from my fatherís house and my native land, who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ëTo your offspring I will give this landí—He will send His angel before you so that you can take a wife for my son from there.

And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands upon thousands. May your offspring possess the gates of their enemies.”

If he said, ëThe speckled will be your wages,í then the whole flock bore speckled offspring. If he said, ëThe streaked will be your wages,í then the whole flock bore streaked offspring.

But You have said, ëI will surely make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to count.í”

Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brotherís wife. Perform your duty as her brother-in-law and raise up offspring for your brother.”

But Onan knew that the offspring would not belong to him; so whenever he would sleep with his brotherís wife, he would spill his seed on the ground so that he would not produce offspring for his brother.

They also took the livestock and possessions they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and Jacob and all his offspring went to Egypt.

so that he does not defile his offspring among his people, for I am the LORD who sanctifies him.”

The fruit of your womb will be blessed, as well as the produce of your land and the offspring of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.

The LORD will make you prosper abundantly—in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land—in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.

So the LORD your God will make you abound in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land. Indeed, the LORD will again delight in your goodness, as He delighted in that of your fathers,