#offspring

We met The Cult and were talking to them for a while. We went a few places with Offspring. ↗

— Daniel Johns

#few #met #offspring #places #talking

Good laws are the offspring of bad actions. ↗

— Charles Macklin

#bad #good #laws #offspring

The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#first #man #offspring #place #yet

In its various forms, so far as we know them, Love seems always to have a deep significance and a most practical importance to us little mortals. In one form, as the mere semi-conscious Sex-love, which runs through creation and is common to the lowest animals and plants, it appears as a kind of organic basis for the unity of all creatures; in another, as the love of the mother for her offspring—which may also be termed a passion—it seems to pledge itself to the care and guardianship of the future race; in another, as the marriage of man and woman, it becomes the very foundation of human society. And so we can hardly believe that in its homogenic form, with which we are here concerned, it has not also a deep significance, and social uses and functions which will become clearer to us, the more we study it. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#animals #homosexuality #human-sexuality #love #marriage

If I release you, you won't scream? I'd rather not continue the conversation like this." She shook her head, and he freed her. She scrambled away from him, feeling the grooves of the headboard bite into her back when she slammed into it. He sat back on her bed, his hands on his jean-clad thighs. The hair at his neck curled from dampness. "You don't have to be afraid of me." She almost laughed. "A stranger breaks in, and I'm supposed to be cool with that?" "Amy, we're not strangers. ↗

— Jaime Rush

#pnr #psychic #romantic-suspense #urban-fantasy #romantic

Random lines, Beyond the Darkness: "Playing 'tag, you're it' against a car is a bad idea. ↗

— Jaime Rush

#pnr #shapeshifter #suspense #urban-fantasy #urban-fantasy

In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring of marriages between relatives today. ↗

— Walter Lang

#beginning #between #cause #genetic #human

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

#ancestors #bliss #conjugal #depend #due

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

#been #brutal #century #human #human rights

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

#come #elsewhere #first #heritage #laying