Begetting Of Children Quotes

#1. The generation is unceasing. Beauty, as both Plato's Symposium and everyday life confirm, prompts the begetting of children: when the eye sees someone beautiful, the whole body wants to reproduce the person.

Elaine Scarry

#2. The problem with themes is that writers don't realise they are themes until someone points them out.

Tobias Hill

#3. You can't slit the throat of everyone whose character it would improve.

Al Swearengen

#4. Relationships should be built on trust and truth.

Sophie Kinsella

#5. Hollywood is a far safer place to work than working abroad, because of the skill level, and because of the safety considerations that experience and unionization have created.

John Rhys-Davies

#6. Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting.

Ouida

#7. Once we know our elements we know our strengths, but that is nothing compared with our weaknesses. Our strengths define us, but our weaknesses limit us. It's a constant tug of war in ourselves.

Katie Kacvinsky

#8. Do I like to write? Why? About what? Will I give up and say, "Living and feeding a man's insatiable guts and begetting children occupies my whole life. Don't have time to write"?

Sylvia Plath

#9. I don't care if she's wearing sweats or jeans or a dress," Chris replied, shaking his head. "In fact, in my perfect world, she would be wearing nothing.

Jody Morse

#10. We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

#11. There is no God and we are his inventors. Humanity designed him like some sinister masochistic architects. The infinite blueprint for our intellectual enslavement.

C.J. Anderson

#12. I love it when a photographer lets me create my own movement and feeling to the images. By that I mean he doesn't restrict me in his or her own ideas but rather gives me a direction and lets me work within those boundaries freely.

Kylie Bax

#13. Who flipped your bitch switch ? -Elora

Quinn Loftis

#14. Write, write, and write some more. Think of writing as a muscle that needs lots of exercise.

Jane Yolen