Breeding Quotes · Page 5

There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon…

— Ken Auletta

...Francis Galton, founder of the eugenics (master race) movement which continues today under the heading of 'population control'.

— David Icke

The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.

— Anonymous

Plant breeding has been going on for millennia and it's a gradual process.

— Monty Don

So you are the people tearing down the Brazilian rainforest and breeding cattle.

— Prince Philip

Conformation ... but not much else. Breeding, but too small a heart. You saw it everywhere - in men, in horses, and…

— Beryl Markham

When you have a couple hundred people in one huge space, that's gonna lead to jokes and it's a breeding ground for…

— Anonymous

The final greatness of the presidency lies in the truth that it is not just an office of incredible power but a…

— Clinton Rossiter

One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's…

— Val Kilmer

I think video village is bullshit. It's like it's a breeding ground for people to nitpick and feel important. It's just such…

— Drew Barrymore

Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of…

— Henry Fielding

Everything that we eat today has been improved through some sort of breeding process. Anytime you do this, you introduce not only…

— Pamela Ronald

The Fashionable World is grown free and easie; our Manners sit more loose upon us: Nothing is so modish as an agreeable…

— Joseph Addison

As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression,…

— Desmond Tutu

The raillery which is consistent with good-breeding is a gentle animadversion of some foible, which, while it raises the laugh in the…

— Henry Fielding

Living in, and promoting a eugenic White society. This means that we take particular care in not only assuring the perpetuation of…

— Ben Klassen

With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to…

— Charles Darwin

Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are no schools…

— Ludwig von Mises

There is a cottage industry of these Muslim bashers who are training law enforcement personnel, military personnel... and you are breeding a…

— Ibrahim Hooper

It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

We must not only control the weapons that can kill us, we must bridge the great disparities of wealth and opportunity among…

— Muhammad Ali

If Americans actually have the conversation about our disastrous prison policies, we'll understand the trends all move in very dangerous directions: we…

— Dahlia Lithwick

I’d signed six things and my stack wasn’t getting any smaller. It was like the paperwork was breeding while I worked.

— Ilona Andrews

American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains.

— Christine O'Donnell

Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it.

— Thomas Hunt Morgan

The procreation of [the diseased, the feeble-minded and paupers] should be stopped.

— Margaret Sanger

By the end of this century, climate change will reduce the human population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic.

— James Lovelock

Exchange of breeding individuals between two populations tends to homogenize their gene pools.

— Peter R. Grant

I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding

— Theodore Roosevelt

Television, the drug of the nation, breeding ignorance and feeding radiation...

— Michael Franti

You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Pretty much every plant and animal alive today is the result of eons of natural cross-breeding.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.

— Mark Twain

I'm always very interested in breeding. Raising cacti is breeding. My lotus plant collection is breeding. The insects are breeding.

— Takashi Murakami

There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

That eugenics was part of the progressive agenda is one of the most heavily-airbrushed features of history.

— Arnold Kling

Behavior, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding.

— Ambrose Bierce

A man's own good breeding ishis best security against other people's ill-manners.

— Anonymous