Begat/anatomy

Famous quotes containing the words begat and/or anatomy:

“Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us.”
—Apocrypha. Apocrypha, Ecclesiasticus 44:1.

“Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)