Begat/process

Famous quotes containing the words begat and/or process:

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

“To exist as an advertisement of her husband’s income, or her father’s generosity, has become a second nature to many a woman who must have undergone, one would say, some long and subtle process of degradation before she sunk [sic] so low, or grovelled so serenely.”
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)