Breeding Quotes

174 quotes by 144 authors

Eagles are very tolerant and very adaptable, but they have to get established first. When birds are setting up their breeding territory, they are the… — Jim Elliot
The final greatness of the presidency lies in the truth that it is not just an office of incredible power but a breeding ground of… — Clinton Rossiter
Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation. — David Quammen
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. While I was conducting experiments to make spineless cacti, I often talked to… — Luther Burbank
Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. — Cyril Connolly
The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because easy listening and folk were kind of taking… — Alice Cooper
It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience. — Garrett Hardin
Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit… — Quincy Jones
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics. — Carl Jung
Simplicity is a great element of good breeding. — Fanny Kemble
One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making… — Val Kilmer
Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different… — Anne Perry
There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that.… — Terry Pratchett
While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps. — Meg Rosoff
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. — George Bernard Shaw
It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption. — James Thurber
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. — Mark Twain
I'm tired of liberals dividing this country up into little groups, setting them upon each other, breeding spite and envy, and then having the nerve… — Allen West
It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their… — Agatha Christie

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