Bred Quotes

215 Bred quotes by 181 unique authors

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
I'm from Tennessee. My mom lives in Nashville. I'm born and bred country. That's all I listen to. — Lucy Hale
It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter. — William Hazlitt
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
I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg. — Judy Holliday
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
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
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
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
I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian. — Willie Stargell
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
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
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. — Oscar Wilde
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
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

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