Bred Quotes

215 quotes by 187 authors

I can't say that the college-bred woman is the most contented woman. The broader her mind the more she understands the unequal conditions between men… — Susan B. Anthony
For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than #â€Ž agriculture — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an ancestral stream. — Evelyn Waugh
What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism. — Pauline Kael
You who are born of the hills/ Hill-bred, lover of hills/ Though the world may not you aright/Though your soul be aweary with ill/This will… — Maxwell Struthers Burt
Ay, Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy. — William Shakespeare
The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. — Willa Cather
I'm a Mancunian born and bred and I feel I'm no different to the man in the crowd and it's nice to reward them. I… — Ricky Hatton
Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the… — Aristotle
The thorough bred against a clamor, or rather the Porsche vs. the pickup truck. — Larry Merchant
I'm actually as common as mud. I'm not particularly well read, or bred. But the way I look... I seem to have this sort of… — Charles Dance
In sitcoms, the women are so beautiful, understanding and well-bred. They have humor, but sort of display it with a twinkle of the eye and… — Bea Arthur
None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error. — Benjamin Franklin
Do not be perturbed with by an ill-bred person; in most cases the one who is unsociable has a liver complaint and bad nerves. — Chico Xavier
Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow; The swan on still St. Mary's Lake Float double, swan and shadow! — William Wordsworth
In this era of affluence and of permissiveness, we have, in all but cultural areas, bred a nation of overprivileged youngsters, saturated with vitamins, television… — Judith Crist
These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon; The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald… — James Russell Lowell
She once complained that her stories were like 'birds bred in cages,' but that concentrated atmosphere, that claustrophobic hothouse of emotion, was her talent. Her… — Katie Roiphe
Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an… — David Hume
I've looked at pictures that my mom has of me, from when I was four years old at the turntable. I'm there, reaching up to… — Dr. Dre

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