Samuel Butler Quotes

The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

Anyone who has trouble imagining causality as magical and uncanny need only consider the existence of children.

Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement.

The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species.

I always knew I wanted to have children.

I'm of the mindset that most people who have kids are, which is, 'Hey, I want another me. I like me. I'm pretty cool, and I've got really great ideas, and the way I think is the right way to think. Let's put another one of me out there.' So I'll have kids one day.

It takes three to make a child.

There are many ways to make the most of your time on the planet, and propagation of the species is just one of them. If you're convinced that it's the key to your happiness, there are routes open to you, whether with the help of modern medical science, marrying into a readymade one, or through fostering and adoption.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

I think it's the most responsible thing you can do, to have kids. It's not something to be taken lightly. I don't have that gene that people have to replicate.

I love kids with a passion I usually reserve for hot cheese, miniature chairs, and Prince concerts, but I feel no stress to reproduce simply because of a fear of withering eggs.

I need births, many births.

I've always wanted kids.

I know what it feels like to love and care about things, but I've never had that instinct to have kids.

I'm in the business of creating human beings.

We love the sight of the brown and ruddy earth; it is the color of life, while a snow-covered plain is the face of death. Yet snow is but the mask of the life-giving rain; it, too, is the friend of man, the tender, sculpturesque, immaculate, warming, fertilizing snow.

The human race could not go on without reproduction, and marriage creates the most secure environment in which to raise children.

I'd love to have kids.

I feel like woman was brought to this world to have family and kids.

I never planned on having children, that's never been a desire of mine.

I want a lot of kids myself - at least three boys.

I would like to have two or three kids.