Breed Quotes - page 3

My son – and what's a son? A thing begot Within a pair of minutes, thereabout: A lump bred up in darkness. (Thomas Kyd)
There is no such thing as a problem breed. However, there is no shortage of 'problem owners'.... View quote
Cesar Millan
One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who have no lasting emotions, but only whims and vanities, eddying them now this way, now that. View quote
Virginia Woolf
A woman well bred and well taught, furnished with the additional accomplishments of knowledge and behaviour, is a creature without comparison. Her society is the emblem of sublimer enjoyments, her person is angelic, and her conversation heavenly. She is all softness and sweetness, peace, love, wit, and delight. She is every way suitable to the sublimest wish, and the man that has such a one to his portion, has nothing to do but to rejoice in her, and be thankful. View quote
Daniel Defoe
Little did the artist know, who neglected his appearance in favor of his work, that the years would produce a breed that spent hours meticulously acquiring a neglected look to appear like an artist. View quote
Vanna Bonta
I am like a mariner born and bred on board a buccaneer brig whose soul has become so inured to storm and strife that if cast ashore he would weary and languish no matter how alluring the shady groves and how bright the gentle sun. View quote
Mikhail Lermontov
What troops Of generous boys in happiness thus bred - Saturnians through life's Tempe led, Went from the North and came from the South, With golden mottoes in the mouth, To lie down midway on a bloody bed. View quote
Herman Melville
A society that put more emphasis on birth than ability was likely to breed ability out of its ruling class. View quote
Damon Knight
I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support. View quote
Michael Parenti
Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain. (Rohinton Mistry)
Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine. View quote
George Bancroft
Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler. View quote
John Locke
It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone. View quote
John Heywood
It had need to bee A wylie mouse that should breed in the cats eare. View quote
John Heywood
The intellectual ... may live for ideas, as I have said, but something must prevent him from living for one idea, from becoming obsessive or grotesque. Although there have been zealots whom we may still regard as intellectuals, zealotry is a defect of the breed and not of the essence. View quote
Richard Hofstadter
Proximity doesn't breed familiarity. View quote
Maureen Johnson
Life's not easy for unicorns, you know. We're a dying breed. View quote
Meg Cabot
The cradle-to-grave welfare state diminishes individual initiative and can breed a pervasive sclerosis. View quote
Jacob Weisberg
The challenge for capitalism is that the things that breed trust also breed the environment for fraud. View quote
James Surowiecki
Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with hearts as big as a cloudless sky. (John Grogan)
The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts. View quote
A. E. van Vogt
I am Batley and Spen born and bred, and I could not be prouder of that. I am proud that I was made in Yorkshire and I am proud of the things we make in Yorkshire. Britain should be proud of that, too. View quote
Jo Cox
Fear and Bigotry are bred fom isolation and ignorance. -Shekinah. View quote
P. C. Cast
As the 1960s began, a new breed of Hollywood leading lady was emerging. She was elegant, international, and wonderfully comedic. View quote
Maureen O'Hara
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