Bred Quotes

215 quotes by 187 authors

Who of English speech, bred to the traditions of his race, does not recognize Hamlet in his 'inky cloak' at a glance? Not to know… — George Edward Woodberry
Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground. — Frank Lloyd Wright
We are bred to compare ourselves to the next person, to what they have and what they have accomplished. — Niecy Nash
Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths. — Ashwin Sanghi
Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man. — Homer
Golden retrievers are not bred to be guard dogs, and considering the size of their hearts and their irrepressible joy in life, they are less… — Dean Koontz
The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish: What mad Nijinsky wrote About Diaghilev Is true of the normal… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea Past the houses, past the headlands Into deep eternity! Bred as we, among the mountains… — Emily Dickinson
Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? — William Shakespeare
The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his… — Virginia Woolf
It was obvious that bigotry was never a one-way operation, that hatred bred hatred! — Isaac Asimov
Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating… — Frank Herbert
To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether itâ€™s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my… — Theodore Roosevelt
It was the old New York way...the way people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing… — Edith Wharton
But nobody ever forgot anything, not really, though sometimes they pretended, when it suited them. Memories were permanent. Sorrowful ones remained sad even with the… — Rohinton Mistry
For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose… — John Milton
To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for… — Oscar Wilde
Adaptation is one of the great advantages to being born and bred in Jersey. We're simply not bested by bad air or tainted water. We're… — Janet Evanovich
Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred. — Miguel de Cervantes

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