Progeny Quotes:

You are the nest. You are the hatchling. You are the chrysalis. You are the progeny. You are the rot that falls from stars. You may not understand what I mean. You will.

- Rick Yancey

source: Rick Yancey (2011). “The Isle of Blood”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

topic: Stars, Fall, Mean, Chrysalis, Progeny

It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.

- Lewis Thomas

topic: Cells, Resemblance Is, Whales, Progeny, Resemblance

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 Wollstonecraft Shelley

source: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.5, Wordsworth Editions

topic: Grief, Heart, Echoes, Progeny

But it is a myth to assume that the larger amount of early stimulation you provide, the more beneficial it will be. The truth is that babies can be overstimulated--which is what many parents, intent on beginning to groom their progeny for college in the cradle, end up doing.

- Julius Segal

topic: Baby, College, Parent, Progeny

For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

- John Milton

topic: Life, Book, Soul, Potency, Efficacy

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.

- James Lovelock

topic: Shapes, Favors, Environment, Progeny

The law of nature instructs most animals to cherish and educate their infant progeny. The law of reason inculcates to the human species the returns of filial piety.

- Edward Gibbon

source: Edward Gibbon, François Guizot (1859). “Guizot's Gibbon: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.86

topic: Animal, Law, Return, Filial, Filial Piety

Tremendous purity, tremendous renunciation, is the one secret of spirituality. “Neither through wealth, nor through progeny, but through renunciation alone is immortality to be reached,” say the Vedas. “Sell all that thou hast and give to poor, and follow me,” says the Christ. So all great saints and prophets have expressed it, and have carried it out in their lives. How can great spirituality come without renunciation?

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1589, Manonmani Publishers

topic: Giving, Secret, Vedas, Great Spiritual, Progeny

Either Stone Age man was a technological wizard, who carefully removed his technological achievements so as not to upset his inferior progeny, or our population dwindled from a once astronomical size to the mere three billions of today.

- Heinz von Foerster

source: "Population Density and Growth". "Science", Vol 133, June 16, 1961.

topic: Men, Upset, Age, Progeny

It is only the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence.The story is our escort;without it,we are blind.Does the blind man own his escort?No,neither do we the story;rather,it is the story that owns us.

- Chinua Achebe

topic: Men, Doe, Cactus, Progeny

The partisans of eugenic planning hear that other music, the music that says that there shall be nothing random in the world, nothing independent, nothing moved by its own vitality, nothing out of keeping with some idea: even our children must not be our progeny, but our creation.

- Charles Frankel

topic: Children, Independent, Ideas, Progeny

For as soon as the procreative faculty is thwarted and the number of births diminished, the natural struggle for existence which allows only healthy and strong individuals to survive is replaced by a sheer craze to 'save' feeble and even diseased creatures at any cost. And thus the seeds are sown for a human progeny which will become more and more miserable from one generation to another, as long as Nature's will is scorned.

- Adolf Hitler

source: Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)”, p.152, eKitap Projesi

topic: Strong, Struggle, Numbers, Strong Individuals, Struggle For Existence

Eventually we must leave Earth-at least a certain number of our progeny must as our sun approaches the end of its solar life cycle. But just as terrestrial explorers have always led the way for settlers, this will also happen extraterrestrially. Earth is our cradle, not our final destiny.

- Edgar Mitchell

source: Edgar Mitchell (2009). “The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.415, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Future, Destiny, Numbers, Progeny, Settlers

We are mortgaging ourselves to foreigners on a scale that would make George Washington cry. Every day - every single day - we borrow a billion dollars from foreigners to buy petroleum from abroad, often from countries that hate us. We are the beggars of the world, financing our lavish lifestyle by selling our family heirlooms and by enslaving our progeny with the need to service the debt.

- Ben Stein

source: Ben Stein (2010). “The Real Stars: In Today's America, Who Are the True Heroes?”, p.103, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Country, Hate, Dollars, Heirlooms, Lavish Lifestyle

Who are those ever multiplying authors that with unparalleled fecundity are overstocking the world with their quick succeeding progeny? They are novel-writers.

- Hannah More

source: Hannah More (1841). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.345

topic: World, Succeed, Novel, Multiplying, Progeny

I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning.

- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

topic: Daughter, Mean, Learning, Progeny

Hear all ye angels, progeny of light, Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.

- John Milton

topic: Angel, Light, Thrones, Progeny

Parents do not owe their progeny an inheritance no matter how much money they have. One of the surest ways to produce loafers and freeloaders is to let children know that their future is assured.

- Ann Landers

source: Ann Landers (1979). “The Ann Landers Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually”

topic: Children, Parent, Inheritance, Loafers, Progeny

Our bread and water are of one table: the progeny of Adam are as a single soul.

- Muhammad Iqbal

topic: Oneness, Water, Soul, Progeny

Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will touch, fuse, and the two nuclei will then fuse as well, and the new hybrid cell will now divide into monstrous progeny. Naked cells, lacking self-respect, do not seem to have any sense of self.

- Lewis Thomas

source: Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

topic: Opportunity, Two, Self, Hybrid, Progeny

Whoever would like to cherish such adders and puny devils - who are the worst enemies of Christ and us all - to befriend them and to do them honour simply in order to be cheated, plundered, robbed, disgraced, and forced to howl and curse and suffer every kind of evil, to him I would commend the Jews. And if this is not enough, let him tell the Jews to use his mouth as a privy, or else crawl into the Jew's hind parts, and there worship the holy thing, so as afterwards to be able to boast of having been merciful, and of having helped the Devil and his progeny to blaspheme our dear Lord.

- Martin Luther

topic: Worst Enemy, Order, Dear Lord, Progeny, Adders

Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.

- Horace

topic: Son, Giving, Age, Progeny

A half century from now, our grandchildren are likely to look back at the era of mass employment in the market with the same sense of utter disbelief as we look upon slavery and serfdom in former times. The very idea that a human being's worth was measured almost exclusively by his or her productive output of goods and services and material wealth will seem primitive, even barbaric, and be regarded as a terrible loss of human value to our progeny living in a highly automated world where much of life is lived on the Collaborative Commons.

- Jeremy Rifkin

source: Jeremy Rifkin (2014). “The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism”, p.117, Palgrave Macmillan

topic: Loss, Grandchildren, Ideas, Material Wealth, Human Values

The growth of property and the desire for its transmission to children was, in reality, the moving power which brought in monogamy to insure legitimate heirs, and to limit their number to the actual progeny of the married pair.

- Lewis Henry Morgan

source: Lewis Henry Morgan (1877). “Ancient Society”, p.477, University of Arizona Press

topic: Children, Moving, Reality, Progeny

The final end of abortion in America will come when every human being begins to appreciate his own life as a gift from God and the lives of those entrusted to his care as the true blessings they are.  A culture that affirms life will not practice contraception nor will it murder its progeny.

- Judie Brown

topic: Blessing, Practice, America, Contraception, Progeny

Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.

- Franz Grillparzer

topic: Age, Hours, Decline, Progeny

Of her own experience she had no memory of the thing happening; but in her instinct, which was the experience of all mothers of wolves, there lurked a memory of fathers that had eaten their new-born and helpless progeny.

- Jack London

topic: Mother, Memories, Father, Fangs, Progeny

There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility. Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen. In such vital matters blind reliance upon 'experts' and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people's domination. As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.

- Ludwig von Mises

source: "Human Action". Book by Ludwig von Mises, 1949.

topic: Determination, Mean, Responsibility, Intelligent Man, Progeny

The god of Moses would call for other tribes, including his favorite one, to suffer massacre and plague and even extirpation, but when the grave closed over his victims he was essentially finished with them unless he remembered to curse their succeeding progeny. Not until the advent of the Prince of Peace do we hear of the ghastly idea of further punishing and torturing the dead.

- Christopher Hitchens

topic: Ideas, Suffering, Succeed, Prince Of Peace, Progeny

When two plants, constantly different in one or several traits, are crossed, the traits they have in common are transmitted unchanged to the hybrids and their progeny, as numerous experiments have proven; a pair of differing traits, on the other hand, are united in the hybrid to form a new trait, which usually is subject to changes in the hybrids' progeny.

- Gregor Mendel

source: Gregor Mendel, Alain F. Corcos, Floyd V. Monaghan (1993). “Gregor Mendel's Experiments on Plant Hybrids: A Guided Study”, p.69, Rutgers University Press

topic: Hands, Two, Different, Progeny

If A denotes one of the two constant traits, for example, the dominating one, a the recessive, and the Aa the hybrid form in which both are united, then the expression: gives the series for the progeny of plants hybrid in a pair of differing traits.

- Gregor Mendel

source: Gregor Mendel, Alain F. Corcos, Floyd V. Monaghan (1993). “Gregor Mendel's Experiments on Plant Hybrids: A Guided Study”, p.96, Rutgers University Press

topic: Expression, Two, Giving, Hybrid, Progeny

[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's game; phrenology (that sinkhole of human folly and prating coxcombry); spontaneous generation; transmutation of species; and I know not what; all to be swallowed, without tasting and trying, like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!

- Adam Sedgwick

topic: Horse, Games, Play, Geology, Sinkholes

Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more.

- Walter Savage Landor

topic: Compassion, Power, Intemperance, Progeny

I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

topic: Taken, Garden, Sight, Peeping, Progeny

Goodness gracious me,” exclaimed Alexia, “what are you wearing? It looks like the unfortunate progeny of an illicit union between a pair of binoculars and some opera glasses. What on earth are they called, binocticals, spectaculars?” The earl snorted his amusement and then tried to pretend he hadn't. “How about glassicals?” he suggested, apparently unable to resist a contribution.

- Gail Carriger

topic: Glasses, Looks, Amusement, Progeny, Binoculars

a man who has decided upon self-destruction is far removed from mundane affairs, and to sit down and write his will would be, at that moment, an act just as absurd as winding up one’s watch, since together with the man, the whole world is destroyed; the last letter is instantly reduced to dust and, with it, all the postmen; and like smoke, vanishes the estate bequeathed to a nonexistent progeny.

- Vladimir Nabokov

source: VLADIMIR NABOKOV' (1965). “THE EYE”

topic: Writing, Men, Self, Winding Up, Postman

Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Life, Interesting, Parent, Yin And Yang, Progeny

We cannot and must not allow ourselves to have the message of Hiroshima and Nagasaki fade completely from our minds, and we cannot allow our vision or ideals to fade, either. For if we do, we have but one course left for us. And that flash of light will not only rob us of our vision, but it will rob us of our lives, our progeny, and our very existence.

- Tadatoshi Akiba

topic: Light, Mind, Vision, Progeny, Hiroshima And Nagasaki

May liberal men abound with us! May our knowledge of the Vedas and our progeny increase! May faith not forsake us! May we have much to give to the needy.

- Guru Nanak

topic: Men, Giving, Vedas, Needy, Progeny

Today, all our wives and husbands have Blackberries or iPhones or Android devices or whatever-the progeny of those original 950 and 957 models that put data in our pockets. Now we all check their email (or Twitter, or Facebook, or Instagram, or) compulsively at the dinner table, or the traffic light. Now we all stow our devices on the nightstand before bed, and check them first thing in the morning. We all do. It's not abnormal, and it's not just for business. It's just what people do. Like smoking in 1965, it's just life.

- Ian Bogost

topic: Morning, Husband, Iphone, Progeny, Blackberries

So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our own fearful fantasies.

- Rick Yancey

source: Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

topic: Mind, Crowds, Monsters, Progeny

The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate guidance of the mating instinct. [...] The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

- Nikola Tesla

source: "Machine to End War by Nikola Tesla as told to George Sylvester Viereck". "Liberty", www.pbs.org. February 1937.

topic: Race, Civilization, Parent, Sterilization, Mating

Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to preserve the species: those who hit upon or inherited these had better luck in their struggle for themselves and their progeny. Such erroneous articles of faith... include the following: that there are things, substances, bodies; that a thing is what it appears to be; that our will is free; that what is good for me is also good in itself.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

source: Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.169, Vintage

topic: Truth, Struggle, Knowledge, Progeny

We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin. Little sins are pioneers of hell. The backslider begins with what he foolishly considers trifling with little sins. There are no little sins. There was a time when all the evil that has existed in the world was comprehended in one sinful thought of our first parent; and all the now evil is the numerous and horrid progeny of one little sin.

- James Howell

topic: Evil, Parent, Pioneers, Progeny

Apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.

- Margaret Sanger

source: Margaret Sanger, Esther Katz (2007). “The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger: Birth control comes of age, 1928-1939”, Univ of Illinois Pr

topic: Population, Inheritance, May, Sterilization, Planned Parenthood

Scholars dream of finding small facts pregnant with great progeny.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Dream, Facts, Scholarship, Progeny

Has it ever occurred to you how lucky you are to be alive? More than 99 percent of all the creatures that have ever lived have died without progeny, but not a single one of your ancestors falls into that group! ... Not a single one of your ancestors, all the way back to the bacteria, succumbed to predation before reproducing, or lost out in the competition for a mate.

- Daniel Dennett

topic: Fall, Competition, Atheism, Progeny, Reproducing

Preschoolers sound much brighter and more knowledgeable than they really are, which is why so many parents and grandparents are sosure their progeny are gifted and super-bright. Because children's questions sound so mature and sophisticated, we are tempted to answer them at a level of abstraction far beyond the child's level of comprehension. That is a temptation we should resist.

- David Elkind

source: David Elkind (1999). “La educacion erronea. Ninos preescolares en peligro”, Fondo De Cultura Economica USA

topic: Progeny

What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny.

- Horace

topic: Parent, Age, Doe, Progeny, Not Wasting Time