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The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck. -- Tony Robbins
I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. -- James Whistler
Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures. -- Achy Obejas
I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both. -- Kendrick Lamar
I'm waiting for my kids to grow up and get into the Offspring and look at me like I'm a total candy-ass. -- Jakob Dylan
Rarely use Venery but for Health or Offspring; Never to Dulness, Weakness, or the Injury of your own or another's Peace or Reputation. -- Benjamin Franklin
Offspring, friends and relatives flee from a devotee of the Lord: yet those who follow him bring merit to their families through their devotion. -- Chanakya
Punk is like looking at a mirror. I already have a mirror so I don't need the Offspring to remind me how gorgeous I am. -- John Lydon
Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone. -- Guru Nanak
It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation. -- Thurston Moore
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs. -- Karl Marx
Christ, by highest heaven adored. Christ, the everlasting Lord, Late in time behold Him come, Offspring of a virgin's womb. Veiled in flesh the Godhead see, Hail the incarnate Deity! Pleased as Man with man to dwell; Jesus, our Immanuel! -- Charles Wesley
Hail holy light, offspring of heav'n firstborn! -- John Milton
All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions. -- Leonardo da Vinci
The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny -- Mark Twain
We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past. -- Miguel de Unamuno
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents. -- Samuel Butler
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations. -- Nikki Giovanni
While parents possess the original key to their offspring's experience, teachers have a spare key. They, too, can open or close the minds and hearts of children. -- Haim Ginott
There is no difference between the worry of a human mother and an animal mother for their offspring. A mother's love does not derive from the intellect but from the emotions, in animals just as in humans. -- Maimonides
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations. -- Khalil Gibran
I do not believe that the Constitution was the offspring of inspiration, but I am as satisfied that it is as much the work of a Divine Providence as any of the miracles recorded in the Old and New Testament. -- Benjamin Rush
...to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training for its mind is a moral crime, both against the unfortunate offspring and against society -- John Stuart Mill
Animals engage in a struggle for existence; for resources, to avoid being eaten and to breed. Environmental factors influence organisms to develop new characteristics to ensure survival, thus transforming into new species. Animals that survive to breed can pass on their successful characteristics to offspring. -- Al-Jahiz
Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural. -- Aristotle
You give me a credit to which I have no claim in calling me "the writer of the Constitution of the United States." This was not, like the fabled Goddess of Wisdom, the offspring of a single brain. It ought to be regarded as the work of many heads and many hands. -- James Madison
In however complex a manner this feeling may have originated, as it is one of high importance to all those animals which aid and defend one another, it will have been increased through natural selection; for those communities, which included the greatest number of the most sympathetic members, would flourish best, and rear the greatest number of offspring. -- Charles Darwin
Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the organisms that have ever lived have died without viable offspring, but not a single one of your ancestors, going back to the dawn of life on Earth, suffered that normal misfortune. You spring from an unbroken line of winners... -- Daniel Dennett
The responsibility which rests upon man is proportional to the ability which he possesses and the opportunity which he faces. Perhaps that responsibility is no greater for him than was that of Notharctus or Eohippus or a trilobite, each in his own day, but because of man's unique abilities it is the greatest responsibility that has ever rested upon any of the earth's offspring. -- Kirtley F. Mather
You are a child of God. He is father of your spirit. Spiritually you are of noble birth, the offspring of the King of Heaven. Fix that truth in your mind and hold to it. However many generations in your mortal ancestry, no matter what race or people you represent, the pedigree of your spirit can be written on a single line. You are a child of God! -- Boyd K. Packer
Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature, and the fairest. It is the fruitfulness of many plants growing into one flower and sowing itself over the world in shapes of beauty and color, which differ with the soil that receives and the sun that ripens the seed. In Persia, it comes up the rose of Hafiz; in England, the many-blossomed tree of Shakespeare. -- Robert Aris Willmott
Good laws are the offspring of bad actions. -- Charles Macklin
The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years. -- George Bernard Shaw
Life and the universe compare to each other like a child and a parent, parent and offspring. -- Dimitar Sasselov
The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man. -- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring. -- Jean Henri Fabre
Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression. -- John Charles Polanyi
Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. -- Peter De Vries
For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer. -- Bob Barr
God truly is our Father, the Father of the spirits of all mankind. We are his literal offspring and are formed in his image. We have inherited divine characteristics from him. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses. -- Saint Basil
Every animal would rather die themselves than lose their offspring. But it's just genes, isn't it? All of our existence is spent worrying about the next generation, but we don't actually seem to get anywhere. -- Robert Smith
On the day-long follows that I used to do with mothers and their offspring - these chimp families that I knew so well - there was hardly a day when I didn't learn something new about them. -- Jane Goodall
And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart. -- Mary Shelley
My generation of Americans, the scions of daring dreamers, the children of the fearlessly faithful and the offspring of many of history's most audacious actors - we, together, drink deeply from wells of freedom, liberty and opportunity that we did not dig. -- Cory Booker
The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected; and that women can only attain equality by having the legal option of destroying their innocent offspring in the womb. -- Robert Casey
Traits acquired during one's lifetime - muscles built up in the gym, for example - cannot be passed on to the next generation. Now with technology, as it happens, we might indeed be able to transfer some of our acquired traits on to our selected offspring by genetic engineering. -- Nick Bostrom
If we could honestly promise young couples that we knew how to give them offspring with superior character, why should we assume they would decline? Common sense tells us that if scientists find ways to greatly improve human capabilities, there will no stopping the public from happily seizing them. -- James D. Watson
Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, 'It was a perfect script for she and I,' inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, 'Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?' -- Dick Cavett
My purpose is to teach and demonstrate what is possible. To demonstrate love of God and good. Remember what my role is as a woman: to be... good. My role as a mother: to teach, support and nurture my offspring. My role as a grandmother: to remind everybody - right where you are, God is. -- Iyanla Vanzant
For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate. -- Aasif Mandvi
I made the big turnaround in the early Nineties when I started hearing all the tenth generation punk bands like Green Day and Offspring and all those people. It just made me fall in love with punk again and remember my roots, and since that time I've always wanted to do more of that kind of music again. -- Jane Wiedlin
Calumny is the offspring of Envy. -- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Slavery is the offspring of darkness. -- Simon Bolivar
Life is the offspring of death. -- Moses Harvey
Peace the offspring is of Power. -- Bayard Taylor
Lasting happiness is the offspring of endurance. -- Chris Heimerdinger
Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. -- Isaac Newton
Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Despair is most often the offspring of ill-preparedness -- Don Williams, Jr
Despair is most often the offspring of ill-preparedness. -- Donald E. Williams, Jr.
Additional problems are the offspring of poor solutions. -- Mark Twain
oblivion has been noticed as the offspring of silence. -- Hannah More
The offspring of riches Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny -- Mark Twain
Two imbecile parents, whether related or not, have only imbecile offspring. -- Charles Davenport
Two imbecile parents, whether related or not, have only imbecile offspring. -- Charles Davenport
The majority of great men are the offspring of unhappy marriages. -- Hermann Graf Keyserling
A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring. -- Hosea Ballou
Let ignorance reproduce itself until it is weary of its own offspring. -- Khalil Gibran
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love. -- Benjamin Disraeli
New mutations don't create new species; they create offspring that are impaired. -- Lynn Margulis
Doubt is the offspring of knowledge: the savage never doubts at all. -- William Winwood Reade
True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring. -- Alexandre Dumas
Capital brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays the golden eggs. -- Karl Marx
Meek-eyed parents hasten down the ramps To greet their offspring, terrible from camps. -- Phyllis McGinley
We are entitled to violate history, provided that it results in handsome offspring. -- Alexandre Dumas
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage. -- Tertullian
From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious. -- Sappho
Darkness now rose, as daylight sunk, and brought in low'ring Night her shadowy offspring. -- John Milton
Respectability, n. The offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account. -- Ambrose Bierce
No free country has ever been without Parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom. -- James Madison
When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind. -- Bill Moyers
Escalators are the offspring of elevators and stairs. Love is the progeny of passion and admiration. -- Jarod Kintz
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Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more. -- Benjamin Franklin
Once you've raised a child to adulthood, you can only be as demanding as your offspring allow. -- Mariella Frostrup
A culture of vultures steeped and born of violence shall choke on the blood of its offspring. -- T.F. Hodge
If from thy secret bed Of luxury unbidden offspring rise, Let them be kindly welcom'd to the day. -- John Armstrong
My old friend, water, my good companion, my beloved mother and father: I am its most natural offspring. -- Doris Grumbach
When fathers are tongue tied religiously with their offspring, need they wonder if their children's hearts remain sin tied? -- Charles Spurgeon
I would rather be the offspring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth. -- Thomas Huxley
But the love of offspring...tender and beautiful as it is, can not as sentiment rank with conjugal love. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring. -- Oscar Wilde
True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation. -- Hosea Ballou
Between history and the novel stands biography, their unwanted offspring, which has brought a great embarrassment to them both. -- Michael Holroyd
Optimistic parents raise resilient children, but pessimistic parents raise broken offspring. Wherever there is darkness, show your children the light. -- Shmuley Boteach
There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent. -- Rachel Sklar
Rules are the offspring of fear. If everyone trusted and followed their true inner spirit, the world would function flawlessly. -- Alan Cohen
The offspring of virtue is perseverance. The fruit and offspring of perseverance is habit and child of habit is character. -- John Climacus
The offspring of virtue is perseverance. The fruit and offspring of perseverance is habit and child of habit is character. -- John Climacus
The desire for legitimate offspring is, in fact, according to the Catholic Church, the only motive which can justify sexual intercourse. -- Bertrand Russell
With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth. -- Charles Caleb Colton
So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things. -- Johannes Kepler
What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring? -- Philip Sidney
Dogmas are the toys that amuse and can satisfy but unreasoning children. They are the offspring of human speculation and prejudiced fancy. -- H. P. Blavatsky
One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children. -- Carl Sagan
Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring. -- Jean Henri Fabre
Scorned and torn, former love mates aim and shoot childish devastating daggers that penetrate beyond target to pierce the heart of their offspring. -- T.F. Hodge
Man peoples his current living space with a world of his own, crowded with the offspring of his fancies, desires, impulses, and passions. -- Annie Besant
Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before. -- Millard Fillmore
As you get older, subconsciously you start thinking about mortality and protecting your offspring. It opens up a whole new avenue of life experiences. -- Kevin Nealon
When one is consumed by the sorrows of life, three things give him relief: offspring, a wife, and the company of the Lord's devotees. -- Chanakya
I have a Greek-American friend who named her daughter "Nike" and is often asked why she chose to name her offspring after a sneaker. -- Rebecca Goldstein
It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell. -- Christian Scriver
Happiness is the offspring of concentrated action. Excellence is achieved through the progressive realization of incremental goals along the path of your life's mission. -- Robin Sharma
Humans cannot produce viable offspring with our closest animal cousin: the chimpanzee. We cannot impregnate a chimp. So you know what that means? No condoms. -- Chris Hardwick
You don't have favorites among your offspring, and you don't among the artists you're involved with, but clearly among my most favorite was Patti Smith. -- Clive Davis
Tenderness has created the first 'social order' - that of the mother with her offspring. Through motherliness, woman later makes her great contributions to civilization. -- Ellen Key
True emotions and sincere words never perish. The great heart of humanity gladly receives and embalms every true utterance of the humblest of its offspring. -- Elias Lyman Magoon

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