Quotes About Progeny

Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives.

The earth had two childrenA son named Adamand a daughter

I am an offspring of the dead. I am descended from the deceased. I am the progeny of phantoms. My ancestors are the illustrious multitudes of the defunct, grand and innumerable. My lineage is longer than time. My name is written in embalming fluid in the book of death. A noble race is mine.

One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of them.

Are you asking us to impregnate all the females on all the ships with your DNA, so that you can be sure of having progeny? No! said Ram in horror. What a terrible thing for a woman, to wake up pregnant- a violation of trust. It would destroy all nineteen colonies. Not to mention being embarrassing when all the babies look like you.

If the purpose of life was just to continue into the future, then none of it would have meaning, because it would be all anticipation and preparation. There's fruition, Grego. There's the happiness we've already had. The happiness of each moment. The end of our lives, even if there's no forward continuation, no progeny at all, the end of our lives doesn't erase the beginning.

For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.

Fertility is measured by offspring, not by honours.

The poet was a fool who wanted no conflict among us, gods or people. Harmony needs low and high, as progeny needs man and woman.

It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.

My approach to parenthood was conditional, and the conditions were strict. I did not want to mother an imbecile or a paraplegic; whenever I saw fatigued women wheeling their stick-limbed progeny with muscular dystrophy for water therapy at Nyack Hospital, my heart didn't melt, it sank.

Of course, there was Lily Anne, the living extension of all that is Me, my DNA shipment into the future. And

We are progeny of not just the Earth, but of the cosmos. And as its progeny it is our duty use the best of our ability and continue that.

It's said that the only immortality a man can achieve is through his children. I understand that now.)

If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.

Some honor Cummings as the granddaddy of all American innovators in poetry and ascribe to him a diverse progeny that includes virtually any poet who considers the page a field and allows silence to be part of poetry's expressiveness.

by parents who tried to pretend their progeny weren't one jelly bean away from Lord of the Flies.

The only true immortality lies in one's children. [ Letter to his friend, Richard Heuberger ]

It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.

even as he bred new ones from his famed and well-worn loins. It

In short, controlling more resources means you are likely to have more progeny surviving to future generations: Team aggression is one way that both chimpanzees and humans have hit upon to reap that evolutionary reward.

he had been married three times, and had fathered at least thirteen children,

Tis a happy thing To be the father unto many sons.

Third, the Court has never applied the "least restrictive means" test in a First Amendment free exercise case. RFRA and its progeny do not restore anything, but rather concoct a new, extreme standard (the burden of showing a compelling interest and the least restrictive means) against the government when it defends neutral, generally applicable laws.