Top 100 Quotes About Breeding
#1. Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
Democritus
#2. 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. I've been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day, a pagan ceremony.
Terry Pratchett
#3. One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.
Jonathan Swift
#4. One of the risks related to an environment marked by high rates of unemployment, low rates of economic growth, and poor education is that it may serve as a breeding ground for radical sentiment.
Frans Cronje
#5. Personal Assault and Battery breeds with no contraception a hateful vengeance for others; A sexual nature that is methodically breeding one's intolerance of Self
Rosemarie Yusen
#6. Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers
and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt
of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of
sheep against the practice of eating mutton.
Bertrand Russell
#7. Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature.
Paul Berg
#8. Happy he who far from business persuits
Tills and re-tills his ancestral lands
With oxen of his own breeding
Having no slavish yoke about his neck.
Horace
#9. Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.
Mark Twain
#10. We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.
Arnold J. Toynbee
#11. The cow can be saved only if buffalo-breeding is given up.
Mahatma Gandhi
#12. Conformation ... but not much else. Breeding, but too small a heart. You saw it everywhere - in men, in horses, and in women.
Beryl Markham
#13. No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life.
Esther Williams
#14. Good breeding and good nature do incline us rather to help and raise people up to ourselves, than to mortify and depress them, and, in truth, our own private interest concurs in it, as it is making ourselves so many friends, instead of so many enemies.
Lord Chesterfield
#16. Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.
Henry Fielding
#17. Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society.
George MacDonald
#18. While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time.
Thorstein Veblen
#20. The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.
Lord Chesterfield
#21. He is just what a young man ought to be," said she, "sensible, good-humoured, lively; and I never saw such happy manners! - so much ease, with such perfect good breeding!
Jane Austen
#22. Some small and very specialized breeding operations bred saddle horses for hunter and jumper competitions - these tended to be small-scale operations owned by wealthy private breeders who kept one or two horses at stud.
Elizabeth Letts
#23. Married! Not to retreat, but to be the mistress of a lord's domain; not to be safe in a convent, but to live as some lord's breeding sow.
Katherine Arden
#24. The welfare system is the breeding ground of crime, addiction and radical politics.
James Cook
#25. One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
Joseph Addison
#26. But there's a million of these
towns that are like factories,
breeding hate and fear that only
the fortunate will never meet
And these zoomed up
kids die like saints, for
someone else's
dollar
Phil Volatile
#27. There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good-Breeding.
Joseph Addison
#28. We would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals.
Ingrid Newkirk
#29. Negative emotional states are a breeding ground for mistakes.
Sam Owen
#30. The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock.
Michael Specter
#31. Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
Carl Jung
#32. There is an ill-breeding to which, whatever our rank and nature, we are almost equally sensitive, the ill-breeding that comes from want of consideration for others.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#33. Well, I don't know no woman of breeding. (Bart)
And I am sure the ladies of the world over are now breathing a collective sigh of relief. (Henri)
Kinley MacGregor
#34. You must labour to acquire that great and uncommon talent of hating with good breeding, and loving with prudence; to make no quarrel irreconcilable by silly and unnecessary indications of anger; and no friendship dangerous, in care it breaks, by a wanton, indiscreet, and unreserved confidence.
Lord Chesterfield
#35. Her apartment seemed fussier than ever, as if the doilies and tassels had taken to breeding in their unguarded moments.
Armistead Maupin
#36. Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
Aristophanes
#37. I had this funny family. At one end, they were breeding dogs in south-east London - for greyhound racing - and at the other, my uncle was living in Downing Street. And I would actually go to Downing Street, which didn't strike me as funny. I'd get on the number 15 bus.
Michael Moorcock
#38. Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.
Fanny Kemble
#39. I've had a raging hard-on since you started this whole damned breeding discussion.
Victoria Vane
#40. The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#41. But Nita had always seen having a child as selfish. Why bring another soul into this world, she'd say, when there are so many out there that need our help?
Ramez Naam
#42. Thanks to my friends for their care in my breeding,
Who taught me betimes to love working and reading.
Isaac Watts
#43. I crave fit disposition for my wife;
Due reference of place, and exhibition;
With such accommodation, and besort,
As levels with her breeding.
William Shakespeare
#44. A poet sees a flower and can go on and on about how beautiful the colors are. But what the poet doesn't see is the xylem and the phloem and the pollen and the thousands of generations of breeding and the billions of years before that. All of that is only available to the scientists.
George M. Church
#46. But when society is the name for such hollow gentlemen and ladies ... and when its breeding is professed indifference to everything that can advance or can retard mankind, I think we must have lost ourselves in that same Desert of Sahara, and had better find the way out.
Charles Dickens
#47. Greyhound racing is a self-regulating gambling business that depends on the uncontrolled breeding and unaccountable disappearance of thousands of dogs every year. That is a situation that is unacceptable and indefensible
Annette Crosbie
#48. A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding for it, and you can't buy it with money. It just happens along.
E.B. White
#49. We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding One generation and out. We have no problems with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of human selective breeding.
Wayne Pacelle
#50. As a teenager, I developed a great interest in not only horse breeding but also horse racing and used to bet based on red-hot tips. I realized that becoming a bookmaker would be very lucrative, but Dad put his foot down, saying it was an inappropriate career.
Cyrus S. Poonawalla
#51. Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding, No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them, No more modest than immodest.
Walt Whitman
#52. He who reflects on another man's want of breeding, shows he wants it as much himself
Plutarch
#53. The breeding ground of fear is procrastination and inaction. We overcome them not by preparation, but by taking action.
Debasish Mridha
#54. Our current royal family doesn't have the difficulties in breeding that pandas do, but pandas and royal persons alike are expensive to conserve and ill-adapted to any modern environment.
Anonymous
#55. No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#56. Perhaps the summary of good-breeding may be reduced to this rule. "Behave unto all men as you would they should behave unto you." This will most certainly oblige us to treat all mankind with the utmost civility and respect, there being nothing that we desire more than to be treated so by them.
Henry Fielding
#57. Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals
for all that is admirable in man is the artificial product of special breeding.
H.P. Lovecraft
#58. Aye, Master. Only, how do we know where that dhenrabi might take us?"
"Oh, we know that, most certainly. Why, the dhenrabi breeding beds, of course." "Oh.
Steven Erikson
#59. If you don't include your women graduates in your breeding pool and leave them on the shelf, you would end up a more stupid society ... So what happens? There will be less bright people to support dumb people in the next generation. That's a problem.
Lee Kuan Yew
#61. Mastery is the breeding ground of fresh, creative passion.
Mollie Marti
#62. And it's not my fault that I have a penchant for good breeding, reasonable intelligence, and passable personal hygiene, not necessarily in that order.
Kami Garcia
#63. So you are the people tearing down the Brazilian rainforest and breeding cattle.
Prince Philip
#64. Exchange of breeding individuals between two populations tends to homogenize their gene pools.
Peter R. Grant
#65. It is not in the entrails of doves that the fall of empires can be read, but in the breeding of secrets and the multiplication of lies.
Rod Duncan
#66. He wasn't just fucking me anymore - he was breeding me. Claiming me as his own, marking me so that no other male would come anywhere near me. Corbin owned me now - he had stamped his mark on my heart as surely as he was marking my body. I was his ... utterly and completely his.
Evangeline Anderson
#67. What a fine fellow is Quincey! I believe in my heart of hearts that he suffered as much about Lucy's death as any of us, but he bore himself through it like a moral Viking. If America can go on breeding men like that, she will be a power in the world indeed.
Bram Stoker
#68. The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them.
Lord Chesterfield
#70. The intelligence of affection is carried on by the eye only; good-breeding has made the tongue falsify the heart, and act a part of continued restraint, while nature has preserved the eyes to herself, that she may not be disguised or misrepresented.
Joseph Addison
#71. We were in opposition to the decision to go to war. But after the war happened, it was clear that you could not sit and look-there would be a breeding ground for terrorism or a new collapsed or failed state named Iraq!
Joschka Fischer
#72. Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding.
Susan Cain
#73. 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 of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
Quincy Jones
#74. American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains.
Christine O'Donnell
#75. When you have a couple hundred people in one huge space, that's gonna lead to jokes and it's a breeding ground for practical jokes and teasing.
Erin Duffy
#76. 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, and dying, not only without any impulse to rebel, but without the power of grasping that the world could be other than it is.
George Orwell
#77. Americans bred like rabbits, expecting the reaper to slaughter at least a few before they reached ripeness.
Thomm Quackenbush
#78. 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 thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class.
Anne Perry
#79. To sneer at his imperfect attempt was very bad breeding.
Emily Bronte
#80. It's breeding season on the ranch. Guess who's first on the list." I emptied a shit load of cum into her belly,
Jordan Silver
#81. In general, the larger the breeding population, the slower the rate of evolution.
Michio Kaku
#82. I started Friends of Finn to raise money and awareness about the issue of puppy mills, which are illegal breeding facilities where animals are often bred to death and mistreated. It's a prevalent problem and a million dollar industry in the United States.
Amanda Hearst
#83. Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
Lord Chesterfield
#84. What was it the doctor had said? That he was the best breeding ground imaginable for germs? One glance at the legs of the trousers he was wearing made him feel like the original factory in which germs had been invented.
Gene Porter
#85. Taylor Swift is so flawless, and so unattainable, and I don't think it's breeding anything good in young girls.
Lorde
#86. I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding
Theodore Roosevelt
#87. I knew that alpaca wool, with its cashmere-soft weave, had been transformed into cuddly knick-knacks ranging from pillows to teddy bears. But through selective breeding over the past 6,000 years, alpacas have so diverged from their llama cousins as to become quite different animals.
David Roberts
#88. The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
George Bernard Shaw
#89. Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.
Aristotle.
#90. A US study showed that rats exposed to invisible television rays (screen was blackened) for six hours per day became hyperactive and extremely aggressive for about a week, then suddenly become totally lethargic and stopped breeding entirely.
Mark Sisson
#91. I think that writing texts, publishing texts, selling texts in a physical book store is one of the important tools for breeding this new generation.
Alexander Mamut
#92. yeah, my dad was human. He was a good man, and I'm proud to be his daughter. My mother, on the other hand, was Firstborn. So unless you call the First of your race Mommy or Daddy, I think my breeding is better than yours." Verona
Seanan McGuire
#93. Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.
Caroline Knapp
#94. The dog show emphasizes bloodline, appearance, and comportment, but money and breeding are never far from anyone's mind.
Karen Joy Fowler
#95. Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.
Samuel Johnson
#96. Madame will forgive me for not perceiving her busyness. It is a sign of the highest breeding to be able to be busy whilst appearing idle to the uninformed observer.
Louis De Bernieres
#97. Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
Cyril Connolly
#98. I bought my first horse when I was 15. I always loved racing and I started studying about breeding and I've been doing it now for 30 years, so I have some credibility.
David Cassidy
#99. Along with my passion for horse breeding, I was a horse racing enthusiast ... In 1974 I was elected as a committee member and subsequently as a steward of the Turf Club. I had a burning desire to clean up the sport, which had always carried the stigma of gambling and manipulation.
Cyrus S. Poonawalla
#100. The search for meaning is an illusion of logic and a requirement of the middleclass for predictable breeding space.
Christopher S. Hyatt
