Begotten

Famous quotes containing the word begotten:

“Has the rain a father, or who has begotten the drops of dew?”
—Bible: Hebrew, Job 38:28.

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

“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.