Breeding Quotes
174 quotes by 144 authors
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April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence,…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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The Garden En robe de parade. - Samain Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the railing of a…
— Ezra Pound
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The…
— E. M. Forster
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(Baudelaire) had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandoned or unexplored galleries, and had finally reached those districts…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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I bare my soul and you are suspicious! No, Scarlett, this is a bona fide honorable declaration. I admit that it's not in the best…
— Margaret Mitchell
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Hardly a pure science, history is closer to animal husbandry than it is to mathematics in that it involves selective breeding. The principal difference between…
— Tom Robbins
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The single simplest reason why human space flight is necessary is this, stated as plainly as possible: keeping all your breeding pairs in one place…
— Warren Ellis
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One of the problems, and it's one which is obviously going to get worse, is that all the people at the party are either the…
— Douglas Adams
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She gazed toward the marsh that grew thicker, deeper, greener with approaching summer. Mosquitoes whined in there, breeding in the dark water. Alligators slid through…
— Nora Roberts
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Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding.…
— Terry Pratchett
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She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the effect of causing…
— Jeannette Walls
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
— E. M. Forster
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The Pantechnicon stored and distributed a good deal of furniture as well. The very idea of a lady of good breeding visiting such a place.…
— Gail Carriger
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From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to century, working, breeding,…
— George Orwell
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I felt the need to clarify we were there for the self defense class, in case he also taught about dog breeding or riding the…
— Richelle Mead
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For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on what went before.
— Hilary Mantel
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Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding.
— Susan Cain
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I’d signed six things and my stack wasn’t getting any smaller. It was like the paperwork was breeding while I worked.
— Ilona Andrews
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Religion must be used in furthering great works of justice and reform. It must be used to establish right relations between different groups of men,…
— John Haynes Holmes
Who Wrote These Breeding Quotes
144 authors contributed a total of 174 Breeding Quotes, led by these top contributors: