Bred Quotes

215 quotes by 184 authors

I watched him, filled with tenderness and ache, wondering what it was that connected us. Was it the wounded places down inside people that sought… — Sue Monk Kidd
Fear and Bigotry are bred fom isolation and ignorance. -Shekinah — P. C. Cast
I'm bred for farm work, and for such folk, the only A's you get come from effort. Strife and strain are all the world can… — Mary Karr
No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.… — C.S. Lewis
He had relieved whores beyond counting of frocks, stays, chemises, garters, and stockings. He had never before in his life unbuttoned a gently bred maiden's… — Loretta Chase
The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor — Margaret Mitchell
And she looked at him and saw the grave tenderness in his eyes, and yet knew, for she was bred among men of war, that… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Mr Beach was too well bred to be inquisitive, but his eyebrows here not. 'Ah!' he said. '?', cried the eyebrows. '? ? ?' Ashe… — P.G. Wodehouse
What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from youth. But a… — Deanna Raybourn
You mocking changeling- fairy-born and human-bred! — Charlotte Bronte
What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in… — Robert E. Howard
Recently Mr. Mawdsleyâ€™s donkey escaped from his stall, raced down the road, and somehow found his way into an enclosed pasture. Mr. Cairdâ€™s prized mare… — Lisa Kleypas
To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But Iâ€™m a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Then, like a born and bred asshole, he added to the sheriff, "He writes murder mysteries. — Josh Lanyon
What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one; and gratitude is a short cut which… — Theophile Gautier
Elizabethâ€™s entire body started to tremble as his lips began descending to hers. and she sought to forestall what her heart knew was inevitable by… — Judith McNaught
With a chuckle, Jack mumbled under his breath to Nick. 'It's like watching the preppy, well-bred versions of you and me trash-talking. — Julie James
Nature can't evolve a species that hasn't the will to survive. Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can… — Orson Scott Card
Proximity bred familiarity, and familiarity bred comfort. — Nicholas Sparks
The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so carefully instilled that at last she can even ignore her own… — H.G. Wells

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