Top 79 Quotes About Procreation
#1. All of my books have an element of a man who is in love with somebody and needs them desperately, not just for procreation but for being able to fully unbosom himself. He only feels comfortable discussing things with women. Which is funny, because 80 percent of readers are women!
Gary Shteyngart
#2. Procreation is nature's principal occupation, and every man, whether he be young or old, when meeting every woman measures the potentiality of sex between them.
Charlie Chaplin
#3. Women are for procreation, not recreation; they will only distract you.
Malcolm Archibald
#4. The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
Thornton Wilder
#5. I'm one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
Evelyn Waugh
#7. Of all human activities, apart from the procreation of children, gardening is the most optimistic and hopeful. The gardener is by definition one who plans for and believes and trusts in a future, whether in the short or the longer term.
Susan Hill
#8. Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.
Leon Kass
#9. The second great channel through which the impulse towards the control of procreation for the elevation of the race is entering into practical life is by the general adoption, by the educated - of methods for the prevention of conception except when conception is deliberately desired.
Havelock Ellis
#10. How great, therefore, the wickedness of human nature is! How many girls there are who prevent conception and kill and expel tender fetuses, although procreation is the work of God.
Martin Luther
#11. What a society believes and teaches about the link between sex, marriage and procreation has major implications for how, when and whether people couple, marry and raise children, which in turn has implications for every other societal arrangement as well.
Ross Douthat
#12. By shrewdly linking procreation to an act likely to make you stupid with excitement, God has seen to it that Life does indeed go on. It's possible, by the way, that this is why God's name comes up so often in the middle of the act; it's a salute to the author: Hey, whoever made this up - thanks.
Paul Reiser
#13. Prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.
Barbara Kingsolver
#14. The power of procreation is spiritually significant. Misuse of this power subverts the purposes of the Father's plan and of our mortal existence. Our Heavenly Father and His Beloved Son are creators and have entrusted each of us with a portion of Their creative power.
David A. Bednar
#15. Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away.
Cyrano De Bergerac
#16. The theory of ramification is one of pure colligation, for it takes no account of magnitude or position; geometrical lines are used, but these have no more real bearing on the matter than those employed in genealogical tables have in explaining the laws of procreation.
James Joseph Sylvester
#17. Love at first sight'some say misnaming
Discovery of twinned helplessness
Against the huge tug of procreation.
But friendship at first sight? This also
Catches fiercely at the surprised heart
So that the cheek blanches then blushes.
Robert Graves
#18. One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.
Mortimer Adler
#19. Something is definitely wrong with my feelings about marriage and procreation. I worry that not only am I missing the chromosome that allows me to dance respectably, but that I am also lacking a conventional vagina.
Chelsea Handler
#22. Notice, by extension, that in a democracy those committed to non-procreation could never, in the long run, prevail politically against those committed to procreation.
David Benatar
#23. What drives abortion bans and restrictions? The belief that women who have sex for pleasure rather than procreation are sluts.
Leora Tanenbaum
#24. If men were necessary in the procreation process, they'd have gone the way of the dodo bird long ago.
Lois Greiman
#25. Procreation has little to do with your needs; it has everything to do with the child's needs.
Laura C. Schlessinger
#26. So long as procreation stems from parents of the same race, appearance and lineage are typically congruent. Interracial unions give rise to added complexity. Interracial amalgamation will produce some individuals whose features diverge from those commonly ascribed to the races of their ancestors.
Randall Kennedy
#27. A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation.
Karl Kraus
#28. The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.
Leon Kass
#29. Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
Walter Benjamin
#30. Of course sane people always thought the aim of marriage was the procreation of children to the glory of God or according to the plan of Nature;
G.K. Chesterton
#31. Procreation will be an annual formality like the renewal of a ration card.
George Orwell
#32. first reaction to the indescribable, stupid, and undignified procedure required for procreation had been disappointment...
Dave Duncan
#33. One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#34. The young might have been restless around any primal fire where an elder was saying, Know this. Certainly they would have been restless. Their bodies were consumed with the business of lengthening limbs, sprouting hair, fitting themselves for procreation.
Marilynne Robinson
#35. The ethical system that will dominate the world-state will be shaped primarily to favor the procreation of what is fine and efficient and beautiful in humanity - beautiful and strong bodies, clear and powerful minds - and to check the procreation of base and servile type.
H.G.Wells
#36. Transmitting one's flaws [through procreation] to someone else is a crime. I could never consent to give life to someone who would inherent my ailments.
Emile M. Cioran
#37. Suppose a state said that, Because we think that the focus of marriage really should be on procreation, we are not going to give marriage licenses anymore to any couple where both people are over the age of 55. Would that be constitutional?
Elena Kagan
#38. Of children as of procreation
the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable
Evelyn Waugh
#39. Maniacs of Procreation, bipeds with devalued faces, we have lost all appeal for each other.
Emile M. Cioran
#40. It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and one woman. We don't want genocide. We don't want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage.
Alveda King
#41. Luckless is that country in which the symbols of procreation are held in horror!' he wrote, 'while the agents of destruction are revered!
Rikki Ducornet
#42. Marriage and conjugal love are by their nature ordained toward the procreation and education of children. Children are really the supreme gift of marriage and contribute in the highest degree to their parents' welfare.
Pope Paul VI
#43. The power of procreation is not an incidental part of the plan; it is the plan of happiness.
Boyd K. Packer
#44. Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.
Jacques Ellul
#45. There's something about patience that God deems necessary for our life in the age to come and so, whether through agriculture or discipleship or bodily development or eschatology or procreation, God makes us wait
Russell D. Moore
#46. It sounds strange for me to be saying this, but I've come around to the idea that sex really is for procreation.
Eric Clapton
#47. Shouldn't we be against procreation at this point in time? With overpopulation and the strain on the resources on this planet? Shouldn't we reward people who don't spawn?
Bill Maher
#48. Parents who tell their offspring that sex is an act performed only for procreation do everyone a serious disservice.
Maya Angelou
#49. Rick Santorum doesn't like sex. He doesn't like the pill. He really doesn't like condoms. He said if men are going to pull something on to prevent procreation, nothing works better that a sweater vest.
Bill Maher
#50. For the first time since giving birth so many years before, I grew weary of motherhood, and wondered how many more generations of women could be enticed to burden themselves with the solitary and thankless procreation, nourishing, and guidance of the human race.
Jean Sasson
#51. Were it not for the cabarets, would not the Government be overturned every Tuesday? Happily, by Tuesday, this people is glutted, sleeps off its pleasure, is penniless, and returns to its labor, to dry bread, stimulated by a need of material procreation, which has become a habit to it. None
Honore De Balzac
#52. Scoring high in procreation, got an A studying female anatomy.
Alice Cooper
#53. There is a divine moment in our lives when we all become one. It's called procreation, and it is reborn, continually and forever.
Dirk Benedict
#54. The goal of this generation's pioneers should be to restrict procreation and limit consumption. They should also take every opportunity to make themselves happy, realizing that the key to self-generated happiness (the only reliable kind) is the refusal to take oneself too seriously.
Tom Robbins
#55. The practice of love is the procreation of hope.
Bryant McGill
#56. Decline is also a form of voluptuousness, just like growth. Autumn is just as sensual as springtime. There is as much greatness in dying as in procreation.
Iwan Goll
#57. Evolutionarily speaking, love is all about procreation.
Abhijit Naskar
#58. The procreation of [the diseased, the feeble-minded and paupers] should be stopped.
Margaret Sanger
#59. The conclusion, therefore, is that there are two major forces in society: love, which multiplies the species, and the nose, which subordinates it to the individual. Procreation, equilibrium.
Machado De Assis
#60. Watching his sister be a mother was perhaps the greatest argument for marriage. And watching his niece spit up on her was perhaps the best argument against procreation.
Kate Noble
#61. The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#62. Doomed to procreation and secondary tasks, stripped of her practical importance and her mystical prestige, woman becomes no more than a servant.
Simone De Beauvoir
#63. It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!
Irvin D. Yalom
#64. It's never the right time to have kids, but it's always the right time for screwing. God's not a dumb shit. He knows how it works.
Justin Halpern
#65. The desideratum of the philosophy "better to have never been" is parents being charged with manslaughter for bringing children into the world
Dean Cavanagh
#66. Nathan "N.R." Gaddis did not say ::
2109 fellow Goodreaders [can't be wrong] gave [King Lear] 1 star. Many call it boring. Some even say it is predictable and has no moral lesson. That these people have the right to vote and to procreate is frightening to me.
Nathan "N.R." Gaddis
#67. If people stopped having sex, the world would end in about a hundred years. Think about that shit. If money and power didn't exist, people would still be fucking.
A.D. Aliwat
#69. There was only greed for living and dread, and out of dread, out of stupid childish dread of the cold, of loneliness, of death, two people fled to one another, kissed, embraced, rubbed cheek to cheek, put leg to leg, cast new human beings into the world. That was how it was.
Hermann Hesse
#70. We were not born with a purpose of marrying and giving life to a son-animals are able to have children too and they can have many more children than we do
Sunday Adelaja
#71. A new collection of matter and information to present to the universe and to which it in turn will be presented; different, arguably equal parts of that great ever-repetitive, ever-changing jurisdiction of being.
Iain M. Banks
#72. But I was born in the image of God, a man, a creator, with power of life and death, a father, blessed with the gift of the seed of Adam, a sower of seed, to bring forth generations of new life.
This I was, and envying a kettle.
Richard Llewellyn
#73. Maybe love was a myth anyhow, a brew of hormones and fantasy, evolution's way of getting men and women together long enough for them to procreate,back in the day when girls got pregnant at twelve, were pregnant or nursing for the next twenty years, and were dead of the plague by forty.
Jennifer Weiner
#74. Marriage is the commodification of affection, copulation, and, reproduction.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#75. Oddly enough you can get married and live happily ever after without spawning. Spawning is optional.
Merlyn Gabriel Miller
#76. She--the unnamed lady--simply drew his hands to the Paleolithic places men always have grown tumid from feeling, like the outward cradle of the hips within which a fetus will reside and her breasts that will nourish it, once born.
Edward Hoagland
#77. Ah, but we are women as well as teachers ... We have needs that nature has given us fr the very preservation of our species
Mary Balogh
#78. Never give a lousy person the opportunity to create lousy babies.
Roberto Hogue
#79. To increase the odds of being thanked, some people compliment some people; some make kids.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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