Bred Quotes

215 quotes by 187 authors

I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment. — Amos Oz
The Christian is bred by the Word, and he must be fed by it. — William Gurnall
There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the… — Charles Spurgeon
Children should not be coddled in their intellectual training any more than in their physical; and though the studies should be made interesting the interest… — Arthur Lynch
Are we, finally, speaking of nature or culture when we speak of a rose (nature), that has been bred (culture) so that its blossoms (nature)… — Michael Pollan
Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is! — Catullus
Eugenics was central to the entire Nazi enterprise, joined with romantic nativist and racist myths of the pure-bred Nordic. The emphasis on 'blood' called for… — Alison Thompson
Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality. — Herman Wouk
My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was heir to my father's estate, and as it were the father to take care of us all,… — Margaret Cavendish
The worth of a child born and bred in Nigeria cannot be compared to that in the United States. — Yakubu Gowon
A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath… — James F. Cooper
There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of… — Washington Irving
It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support. — Michael Parenti
I was, in reality, bred by my parents as my father's concubine... What we take for granted as the stability of family life may well… — Sylvia Fraser
By the time you rise through the ranks, the culture of homogenization has bred the spirit and imagination out of you. — Ralph Nader
The new goddess contingency could not be erected until the God of heaven was utterly despoiled of his dominion over the sons of men, and… — John Owen
A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes and hearts ears, bred by… — John Lyly
Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off. — William Davenant
It's the idea that we just have to go along, we can't change it, things won't change. I think that's the sad part, the sad… — Stephen Harper
I look upon logical proofs the way a well-bred girl looks upon a love letter — Johann Georg Hamann

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