Quotes for All
The world teaches birth control. Tragically, many of our sisters subscribe to its pills and practices when they could easily provide earthly tabernacles for more of our Father’s children. We know that every spirit assigned to this earth will come, whether through us or someone else. There are couples in the Church who think they … Read more
Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put. Euripides
Time will unveil all things to posterity. Euripides
If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according to the judgment of their contemporaries, how different their reputations would be from what posterity has made them! Eugene Delacroix
In fact, Darwin’s own grandfather anticipated the central tenet of Lamarckism by some seven years: All animals undergo perpetual transformations; which are in part produced by their own exertions… and many of these acquired forms or propensities are transmitted to their posterity. Erasmus Darwin
I’m not going to write for posterity. I’m going to write to make a buck. Elmore Leonard
Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity. Ellen G. White
The orator, who may be silent without danger, may praise without difficulty and without reluctance; and posterity will confess that the character of Theodosius might furnish the subject of a sincere and ample panegyric. The wisdom of his laws and the success of his arms rendered his administration respectable in the eyes both of his … Read more
Philosophy had instructed Julian to compare the advantages of action and retirement; but the elevation of his birth and the accidents of his life never allowed him the freedom of choice. He might perhaps sincerely have preferred the groves of the Academy and the society of Athens; but he was constrained, at first by the … Read more
An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character. History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority, in its example, in the memory of the words and deeds in which it was manifested; and as every age adds to the illustrations of its efficacy, it may chance to be the … Read more