Scions Quotes

• Faith is the vital artery of the soul. When we begin to believe, we begin to love. Faith grafts the soul into Christ, as the scion into the stock, and fetches all its nutriment from the blessed Vine.

  Richard Watson

  Blessed, Believe, Soul

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• Mi amigo Anderson Cooper es descendiente de una de las grandes familias navieras y ferroviarias de Estados Unidos, los Vanderbilt.

  Kathy Griffin

  America, Railroads, Vanderbilt

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• These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil principle and at another as all that can be conceived of noble and godlike.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Powerful, Men, Evil

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). "Frankenstein: ; O, El moderno Prometeo", DOSER Reads

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• Most Bolton students were scions of the city's wealthiest families. My crewe stuck out like hooker at church. We werent part of their pampered, priveliged world, and many of our classmates were quick to remind us of that fact. Taunting the "boat kids" was practically a varsity sport.

  Kathy Reichs

  Deportes, Niños, Ciudades

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• Marrying Cal, the scion of a family whose wealth dated to the Industrial Revolution and had multiplied through every turn of the American economy since, ought to have eased her worries about failing to climb as high as she believed she deserved. But the money was his, not theirs. The unspoken power this gave him kept her from asking: Why don't you stay home?

  Amy Waldman

  Home, Asking Why, Worry

  Amy Waldman (2011). “The Submission: A Novel”, p.31, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• The hippie is the scion of surplus value. The dropout can only claim sanctity in a society which offers something to be dropped out of--career, ambition, conspicuous consumption. The effects of hippie sanctimony can only be felt in the context of others who plunder his lifestyle for what they find good or profitable, a process known as rip-off by the hippie, who will not see how savagely he has pillaged intricate and demanding civilizations for his own parodic lifestyle.

  Germaine Greer

  Rip, Hippie, Ambition

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.121, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Cada arbusto de manzanos silvestres excita así nuestra expectación, un poco como cada niño salvaje. Es, tal vez, un príncipe disfrazado. ¡Qué lección para el hombre! Así son los seres humanos, referidos al más alto nivel, los frutos celestiales que sugieren y aspiran a dar, rozados por el destino; y sólo el genio más persistente y fuerte se defiende y prevalece, envía al fin un tierno vástago hacia arriba, y deja caer su fruto perfecto sobre la tierra ingrata. Así surgen poetas, filósofos y estadistas en los pastos del campo, y sobreviven a las huestes de hombres no originales.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Children, Spring

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.399, Simon and Schuster

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• Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou? Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead? Could not the grave forget thee, and lay low Some less majestic, less beloved head?

  Lord Byron

  Hope, Art, Majestic

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.184, Cambridge University Press

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• Pero tenemos razón para enfriar nuestras furiosas mociones, nuestros aguijones carnales, nuestras lujurias no amordazadas; de las cuales tomo esto que llamáis amor para ser una secta o vástago.... No es más que una concupiscencia de la sangre y un permiso de la voluntad.

  William Shakespeare

  Sangre, Humanidad, Lujuria

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). "The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare", p.284

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