Begot Quotes

#1. The historian does not locate known facts in a hypothetical, general pattern of processes; his aim is to link fact to fact, one unique knowable event to another individual one that begot it.

Susanne Katherina Langer

#2. This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions; these are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion.

William Shakespeare

#3. Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.

Moliere

#4. I wish my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me;

Laurence Sterne

#5. True, I talk of dreams; which are children of the idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy; which is as thin of substance as air and more inconstant than the wind.

William Shakespeare

#6. Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years and begot an entire German race of philosophical systems.

Stefan Zweig

#7. Frailty begot frailty. Nothing caused lightheadedness so surely as day after day of stifling confinement.

Kate Morton

#8. Oh, wearisome condition of humanity,
Born under one law, to another bound;
Vainly begot, and yet forbidden vanity,
Created sick, commanded to be sound.

Fulke Greville

#9. How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!

Alexander Pope

#10. Whoever is afraid must needs be dependent; a weak thing needs support. That is why the primitive mind, from deep psychological necessity, begot religious instruction and embodied it in a magician or a priest.

Carl Jung

#11. The man who is a bigot,
is the worst thing God has got,
except his match, his woman,
who really is Ms. Begot.

Maya Angelou

#12. But jealous souls will not be answered so.
They are not ever jealous for the cause,
But jealous for they're jealous. It is a monster
Begot upon itself, born on itself.

William Shakespeare

#13. As gardeners-without-borders we must ask ourselves bigger questions like: Where did these materials arise and at what cost to the place that begot them? Of course the synthetic fertilizer loses on every score; it's not even in the running. It gives us no answers; it ignores the questions.

Will Bonsall

#14. My son - and what's a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness.

Thomas Kyd

#15. Valour begot respect, whether in life or in the aftermath of death.

Amish Tripathi

#16. Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old.

Solomon

#17. William Shakespeare called dreams the 'children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy.

Camron Wright

#18. Awake, awake, English nobility! Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot.

William Shakespeare

#19. I am a bastard, too. I love bastards! I am bastard begot, bastard instructed, bastard in mind, bastard in valor, in everything illegitimate.

William Shakespeare

#20. My soul had found
All happiness in its own cause or ground.
Godhead on Godhead in sexual spasm begot
Godhead. Some shadow fell. My soul forgot
Those amorous cries that out of quiet come
And must the common round of day resume.

William Butler Yeats

#21. Civilization was like a mad dash that lasted fie thousand years. Progress begot more progress; countless miracles gave birth to more miracles; humankind seemed to possess the power of gods; but in the end, the real power was wielded by time.

Liu Cixin

#22. Some report a sea-maid spawn'd him; some that he was begot between two stock-fishes. But it is certain that when he makes water his urine is congealed ice.

William Shakespeare

#23. For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations, and lean emptiness He ruined me, and I am re-begot Of absence, darkness, death; things which are not.

John Donne

#24. Please one and you'll live to please the rest

Dee Dee Artner

#25. Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

Paul Cezanne

#26. It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along ... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel.

Susan Sontag

#27. I give up," Baz whined. "I'm going to go drown myself in the moat. Tell my mother I always knew she loved me best.

Rainbow Rowell

#28. But there was something in his eyes at times that I would almost swear said something more. Some deeper sort of regard.

Emma Mills

#29. The ultimate goal of mathematics is to eliminate all need for intelligent thought.

Ronald Graham

#30. Most people don't get a fair crack of the whip.

Norman Cook

#31. We both fitted. If our corners were not rubbed off they were at least pulled in. But deep in us both was something that made us require more for happiness. I didn't know what I wanted

F Scott Fitzgerald

#32. I have a lot of girl friends who are very adept at making friends, and guys are just not.

Rashida Jones

#33. On the wall of time to come
a window appears.
I open it, let angels in.

Helene Cardona

#34. I don't tend to redraft, I will try to tidy it up, but basically I feel what I write down first has got the impetus, it may be clumsy, it may be repetitive, but a good editor can take that out. That first writing bit is the best thing you will do.

Gerald Seymour

#35. Never face facts; if you do you'll never get up in the morning.

Marlo Thomas

#36. Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.

Maxwell Maltz