Quotes about Posterity
Any children born to you after them shall be yours, and they shall be called by the names of their brothers in the territory they inherit.
— Genesis 48:6
It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives.
— Abraham Lincoln
God wished to humble his people. Therefore, Daniel here sets before us the providence and judgments of God, that we may not think Jerusalem to have been taken in violation of God's promise to Abraham and his posterity.
— John Calvin
The present Constitution, with a few alterations of a trifling nature, is just as good as we want; and if it is sustained on this land of Joseph, it will be done by us and our posterity.
— Brigham Young
And after he had become the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.
— Genesis 11:19
“I will rise up against them,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will cut off from Babylon her name and her remnant, her offspring and her posterity,” declares the LORD.
— Isaiah 14:22
When you touch the life of a man of this generation, that influence is felt through generations yet to come.
— Gordon Hinckley
some of our descendents
— Melody Carlson
Success is not success without a successor.
— Bishop TD Jakes
God established the law itself as the perpetual rule of his church, to be always in the hands of men, and to be followed by all posterity.
— John Calvin
You will know that your offspring will be many, your descendants like the grass of the earth.
— Job 5:25
From Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons.
— 1 Chronicles 24:28