Future Offspring

Famous quotes containing the words future and/or offspring:

    In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; as bad and good.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    all afternoon
    Their witless offspring flock like piped rats to its siren
    Crescendo, and agape on the crumbling ridge
    Stand in a row and learn.
    William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)