Begotten

Famous quotes containing the word begotten:

“It was begotten by despair
Upon impossibility.”
—Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in John, 3:16.

“He was begotten in the galley and born under a gun. Every hair was a rope yarn, every finger a fish-hook, every tooth a marline-spike, and his blood right good Stockholm tar.”
—Naval epitaph.