Bred Quotes
215 quotes by 187 authors
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If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by…
— Lord Byron
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All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It…
— Willa Cather
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Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or if you have…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.
— George C. Marshall
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Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway
— George Santayana
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Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not seem to have made this country a nice place…
— Irving Kristol
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What we should be very concerned about is the excesses and the abuses. Where we see hunts where the fox is torn away out of…
— Huw Irranca-Davies
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A dreamer born is a hero bred...
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
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I did a butterfly show in Berlin, and we had a guy who's an expert on butterflies; who bred them all and who looks after…
— Damien Hirst
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the…
— Jonathan Swift
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Anywhere in the world you hear a Chicago bluesman play, it's a Chicago sound born and bred.
— Ralph Metcalfe
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Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in him by the…
— William James
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Artificial selection turned the wolf into the shepherd, and the wild grasses into wheat and corn. In fact, almost every plant and animal that we…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The food we eat masks so much cruelty. The fact that we can sit down and eat a piece of chicken without thinking about the…
— Angela Davis
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If a picture wasn't going very well I'd put a puppy dog in it, always a mongrel, you know, never one of the full bred…
— Norman Rockwell
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We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting'; talk and chat…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents…
— Margaret Sanger
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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…
— Mikhail Lermontov
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It is good to divert our sorrow for other things to the root of all, which is sin. Let our grief run most in that…
— Richard Sibbes
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