Patricia Briggs Quotes

The most important mark I will leave on this world is my son.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts. But memory, merit and noble works are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.

When you have children, you realize that at the end, it's all about passing on, about handing down.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

Everyone archetypally is a parent to future generations.

Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.

The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care about his offspring.

For me, the meaning of life is the next generation.

I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely.

He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

Having a child is sowing the seeds of your own obsolescence: birth is the fuse that leads to that other thing. You appear, you replace yourself, you die.

When you have a child, you think about your own mortality.

I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family. I'll be around a long time. A thousand years from now, a whole township of my offspring will be biting sour apples in the gumwood shade.

You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent. Prayer is your highest privilege as a parent. ...Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows. ...Your prayers for your children are the greatest legacy you can leave.

Five years off my life... I wondered with a wry smile, would people be immortal if they didn't have kids?

I hope that my family will continue in another thousand years.

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.

The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.