Margaret Sanger Quotes

Heaven, in the production of things, is sure to be bountiful to them, according to their qualities. Hence the tree that is flourishing, it nourishes, while that which is ready to fall, it overthrows.

We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees.

I look a lot like my father and his mother.

That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth.

I regret everything. But so what? At least I have cause.

I mean you got to thank your parents for giving you the right genes.

From deformed parents, deformed offspring come to be.

You can improve your education and even change your environment but what you really ARE was all settled when your parents www born. SELECTED PARENTS WILL HAVE BETTER CHILDREN.

I was very lucky both of my parents had really nice skin.

I take the sporting genes from my dad.

Sometimes small things can become very large, indeed.

But I was right. I think that must be an hereditary quality, for my father says he is scarcely ever wrong.

Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care.

He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.

Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

What a wonderful thing it is that drop of seed, from which we are produced, bears in itself the impressions, not only of the bodily shape, but of the thoughts and inclinations of our fathers!

Two imbecile parents, whether related or not, have only imbecile offspring.

In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up.

Many of the good things would never have happened if the bad events hadn't happened first.

Okay, is anyone else worried that some of the fruit didn't fall far enough away from the tree?

If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the adjusting constructiveness of all other growing things. A tree cannot find out, as it were, how to blossom, until comes blossom-time. A social growth cannot find out the use of steam engines, until comes steam-engine-time.

Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.

The tree which fills the arms grew from the tiniest sprout.

It often runs in families," she remarked: "just as a love for pastry does.