Purebred Quotes

#1. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it's nothing but vanity, human vanity.

Ingrid Newkirk

#2. The more high technology around us, the more the need for human touch ... HighTech/High Touch. The principle symbolizes the need for balance between our physical and spiritual reality.

John Naisbitt

#3. Take the domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris), a single species that comes in all shapes, sizes, colors, and temperaments. Every single one, purebred or mutt, descends from a single ancestral species - most likely the Eurasian gray wolf - that humans began to select about ten thousand years ago.

Jerry A. Coyne

#4. My dad grew up in Washington Heights. I grew up in New York in Manhattan. So we're purebred New Yorkers.

Ansel Elgort

#5. It had been my idea that a combination of purebred cattle and horses could be successful from an economic standpoint - in Maryland. Maryland is not a cattle state. To raise beef cattle successfully, you've got to be able to raise cheap feed.

Larry MacPhail

#6. Most of all, I am struck by an irony central to the lot of a purebred dog: As it attains the hallmarks of its breed, it seems to simultaneously relinquish its basic dogginess, until it is less a dog than a Pomeranian, Collie or Bloodhound.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

#7. This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.

Julian Barnes

#8. I love working in Australia. I'm happiest when I get to do it.

Josh Lawson

#9. There's constantly this melancholy about British hip-hop. People are always waiting for it to explode like American hip-hop, but it might just be that British hip-hop will always be as it is: an underground thing which will stay that way.

Zadie Smith

#10. In the kitchen Gamache's German shepherd, Henri, sat up in his bed and cocked his head. He had huge oversized ears which made Gamache think he wasn't purebred but a cross between a shepherd and a satellite dish.

Louise Penny

#11. Great nations leave great ruins, great men leave great memories

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#12. I have a tendency to think of myself as the mutt of the litter. I'm not purebred.

Sally Field

#13. The word purebred is something we can define by counting generations back in dog-sex land. But it is not an indication of species or anything special, really.

Bill Nye

#14. I fear God and respect God and love God.

Brett Ratner

#15. Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?

Ingrid Newkirk

#16. If the Pilgrims had landed in Santa Monica Bay rather than Boston, we'd have six states out here!

Kevin Starr

#17. Adults are constantly telling teenagers that it's what's on the inside that matters. It's always painful to find out that adults have lied to you.

Janette Rallison

#18. Zach tagged along after her, feeling like a stray mutt panting after a purebred poodle.

Jami Davenport

#19. By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.

Ingrid Newkirk