Bred Quotes

215 quotes by 187 authors

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
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
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
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
Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world. — George C. Marshall
Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway — George Santayana
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
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
A dreamer born is a hero bred... — Mary Chapin Carpenter
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
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
Anywhere in the world you hear a Chicago bluesman play, it's a Chicago sound born and bred. — Ralph Metcalfe
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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