Bred Quotes

215 Bred quotes by 181 unique authors

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
The ideological are individuals ultimately swamped by the complexities of modern life and political and economic relations; they have deliberately attached themselves to some caricatural… — Kenny Smith
I was born and bred to be a great flirt — Cybill Shepherd
The Cold War went on for so long that it bred a kind of worldwide military establishment. Even when budgets went down in the early… — Robert D. Kaplan
Bulldogs are adorable, with faces like toads that have been sat on. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind; So flew'd, so sanded;… — William Shakespeare
Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our… — Michel de Montaigne
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he… — Margaret Mead
An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be… — John Ruskin
It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man. — W. Somerset Maugham
Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all its poetic motley,… — George Santayana
Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred. — Walter Raleigh
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example. — Ben Jonson
The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself; and this absurdly optimistic assumption so… — John Fowles
Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they have failed to… — Desmond Morris
I have often caught sight of myself, my spine humped over, defining my hollowness, my head too heavy for my body, swinging like the oversized… — Maureen Howard
I was born and bred a Catholic. I was brought up a very strong Catholic - I practiced in a seminary for four years, from… — Pete Postlethwaite
The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of… — Henry Lawson
Today is built on tragedies, which no one wants to face, nightmares to humanities and morally disgraced. Tonight is filled with rage, violence in the… — Tupac Shakur
You were bred for humanity and sold to society. One day you'll wake up in the present day, a million generations removed from the expectations… — Jethro Tull
Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge. — Jim Butcher

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