Top 19 Purebred Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. Zach tagged along after her, feeling like a stray mutt panting after a purebred poodle.
Jami Davenport
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. I have a tendency to think of myself as the mutt of the litter. I'm not purebred.
Sally Field
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. My dad grew up in Washington Heights. I grew up in New York in Manhattan. So we're purebred New Yorkers.
Ansel Elgort
#11. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it's nothing but vanity, human vanity.
Ingrid Newkirk
#12. 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
#13. This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.
Julian Barnes
#14. I love working in Australia. I'm happiest when I get to do it.
Josh Lawson
#15. 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
#18. If the Pilgrims had landed in Santa Monica Bay rather than Boston, we'd have six states out here!
Kevin Starr
#19. 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
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