(19 quotes found)
“Despair is most often the offspring of ill-preparedness”
Don Williams Jr
“My Lord! make me keep up prayer and from my offspring (too), O our Lord, and accept my prayer. (Abraham 14.40)”
quran
“Unworthy offspring brag the most about their worthy descendants.”
Danish Proverb
“O our Lord! surely I have settled a part of my offspring in a valley unproductive of fruit near Thy Sacred House, our Lord! that they may keep up prayer; therefore make the hearts of some people yearn towards them and provide them with fruits; haply”
“We believe that the star clusters lighting up the tips of the pillars are essentially the offspring of the region's single, massive star.”
Lori Allen
“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
“We would see them as high school students; then they would introduce their bride and their offspring.”
Carl Jacoby
“[The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra is the proud of offspring of the New Orleans Symphony, which went bankrupt in 1991, leaving its musicians unemployed and stunned.] They didn't tell us, ... We found out because we got letters from our health insurance company saying our policies had been canceled.”
John Fairlie
“We don't know how long they live, what kind of habitat they prefer, how many offspring they have, or how sensitive they are to human disturbance. There's still so much to learn.”
Jean Krejca
“have out of fondness for your offspring attributed to it quite the opposite of its real function. Those who acquire it will cease to exercise their memory and become forgetful. ... And as for wisdom, your pupils will have the reputation for it without the reality; they will receive a quantity of information without proper instruction, and in consequence be thought very knowledgeable when they are for the most part quite ignorant.”
Phaedrus
