Begetting Quotes

#1. What is the good of begetting a man until we have settled what is the good of being a man?

G.K. Chesterton

#2. Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle, The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh.

Charles Kingsley

#3. The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#4. My experience of men had long ago taught me that one of the surest ways of begetting an enemy was to do some stranger an act of kindness which should lay upon him the irritating sense of an obligation.

Mark Twain

#5. Like atoms begetting atoms that beget molecules,
when uniquely linked, words form a DNA
of indelible visions.

Todd Crawshaw

#6. It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimulates every thing to itself as proper nourishment; and, from the first moment of your begetting it, it generally grows the stronger by every thing you see, hear, read, or understand.

Laurence Sterne

#7. Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in my knowledge it is because my procreative will is in it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. Coils within coils," murmured the cat. "Fleas upon fleas, idiots begetting idiots - "

"What?"

"Mmm, just thinking," whispered Mogget. "You should try it sometimes.

Garth Nix

#9. From beginning to end this is a wet and blood smeared voyage, this begetting and birthing and moving away.

Barbara Ascher

#10. In so many ways, his family's life feels like a string of accidents, unforeseen, unintended, one incident begetting another.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#11. Well," she said again, turning to him and tipping back her head to meet his gaze. "As the begetting of an heir holds such dire import, I suggest we get to it.

C.L. Wilson

#12. Together, the two began the kind of conversation that flows seamlessly, unstoppably, each fork begetting another branch of common interest, a conversation that continues until this day.

David Oliver Relin

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

Ouida

#14. Mostly the same, but different in parts, mostly in those lower begetting and bearing parts? Or different in kind?

Siri Hustvedt

#15. 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

#16. When people say "to father," they generally mean that one biological act - the act of begetting a child. It is different with the verb "to mother." "To mother" implies care. A man's act of fathering can easily be that one seed sown; a woman's act of mothering can take up all the rest of her life. I

Deborah Meyler

#17. I did not like Ravenscliff by instinct, but I was beginning to find him fascinating. A book-reading, socialist-sympathising, child-begetting capitalist fraud.

Iain Pears

#18. Suddenly absurdism wasn't an intellectual abstraction, it was actually realism. You could see the way that wealth was begetting wealth, wealth was begetting comfort - and that the cumulative effect of an absence of wealth was the erosion of grace.

George Saunders

#19. The business is a very tricky obstacle course, and you should be very clear about work begetting work. If you're not working, you're not interesting.

Elisabeth Rohm

#20. 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

#21. When you go on vacation with people, you learn a lot about them.

Sarah Mlynowski

#22. I trust Isabelle," Simon told Beatriz.

Cassandra Clare

#23. To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

Plato

#24. The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen

A.A. Milne

#25. A SWAT team surrounded my house and came in every door. But it happened because on the day that we split up, Madonna developed a concern that if she were to return to the house, she would get a very severe haircut.

Sean Penn

#26. A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

George Bernard Shaw

#27. If I were surrounded by angels who were purely rational and had no inclinations at all, I couldn't do anything for them. I couldn't make them happy; I couldn't make them sad, I would be entirely useless as a moral agent.

Thomas Pogge