Bred Quotes
215 quotes by 187 authors
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I am a teacher born and bred, and I believe in the advocacy of teachers. It's a calling. We want our students to feel impassioned…
— Erin Gruwell
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'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
— William Congreve
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I feel like I was born and bred to stay self-motivated. I'm not one of those people who ho-hums and feels sorry for himself when…
— Dane Cook
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All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the case of gay…
— Evan Davis
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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes…
— John Dryden
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There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency…
— George Eliot
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I'm from Tennessee. My mom lives in Nashville. I'm born and bred country. That's all I listen to.
— Lucy Hale
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It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
— William Hazlitt
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Here's the thing: I am not only a creature of civilization, I'm an asthmatic person. I will only live so long as I have stockpiled…
— John Hodgman
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I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg.
— Judy Holliday
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It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an…
— Douglas MacArthur
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No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco…
— Moliere
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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
— John Ruskin
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All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost…
— Marquis de Sade
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I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.
— Willie Stargell
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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in…
— Jonathan Swift
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I have this complex. I don't like too much exposure. I don't know why it is. Maybe it's bred in me, because my dad always…
— Mark Viduka
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
— Oscar Wilde
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Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more…
— Robin Williams
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