Top 100 Quotes About Breeding
#1. In a natural environment, nature controls the breeding cycles. In the man-made environment, abnormal environmental conditions control the unnatural breeding cycles.
Steven Magee
#2. Plato and Hitler were both the same kind of consistent socialists who planned also for the production of future socialists, the breeding and education of future members of society.
Ludwig Von Mises
#3. Many a woman will pass for elegant in a ballroom, or even at a court drawing room, whose want of true breeding would become evident in a chosen company.
Julia Ward Howe
#4. The civilization of cities is breeding a new race of monks who have none of the original religious drive towards chastity, but are just incapable of facing the responsibilities of marriage.
Kylie Tennant
#5. The fount and breeding-place of the Semites was Arabia.
Will Durant
#6. Assumed understanding based upon religious tradition is the breeding ground for error.
Robert G. Paul
#7. Unless we maintain correctional institutions of such character that they create respect for law and government instead of breeding resentment and a desire for revenge, we are meeting lawlessness with stupidity and making a travesty of justice.
Mary B. Harris
#8. My brain I'll prove the female to my soul; my soul the father: and these two beget a generation of still-breeding thoughts, and these same thoughts people this little world.
William Shakespeare
#9. Demographics need not be destiny. The waning West became what it is not by out-breeding the undeveloped world. We were once great not because of huge numbers, but due to human capital people of superior ideas and abilities, capable of innovation, exploration, science, philosophy.
Ilana Mercer
#10. Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
William Wycherley
#11. I think it is more of an intuitive, circular kind of personality, for starters. And, as I say of horses, the secret to breeding great horses is the three B's: bones, brains, and balance. If you look at art, it shares some of the same qualities.
Alice Walton
#12. We suffocate with uncoordinated facts; our minds are overwhelmed with science breeding and multiplying into specialistic chaos for want of synthetic thought and a unifying philosophy. We are all mere fragments of what a man might be.
Will Durant
#13. Councils lacking direction are breeding grounds for parasites.
Grant McLachlan
#14. Everything that we eat today has been improved through some sort of breeding process. Anytime you do this, you introduce not only the genes that you know, but some that are not characterized.
Pamela Ronald
#15. I'm always very interested in breeding. Raising cacti is breeding. My lotus plant collection is breeding. The insects are breeding.
Takashi Murakami
#16. This is an age of science ... All important fields of activity from the breeding of bees to the administration of an empire, call for an understanding of the spirit and the technique of modern science. The nations that do not cultivate the sciences cannot hold their own.
Wickliffe Rose
#17. April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
Summer surprised us.
T. S. Eliot
#18. The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.
Dorothy Corkille Briggs
#19. As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression, and injustice, the world has an even greateer instinct for goodness, rebirth, mercy, beauty, truth, freedom and love.
Desmond Tutu
#20. A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
Lord Chesterfield
#21. We were polluting the planet with our numbers; if we were breeding less it was to be welcomed.
P.D. James
#22. 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 is a retarded way to run a species.
Warren Ellis
#23. I've read about 80 books a year for the past 50 years. I come from cultural breeding. I don't have a cellphone. When you spend all your time checking your cellphone messages, or updating your Facebook (of course I don't have a Facebook page) then you don't have any time for reading.
Vaclav Smil
#24. The herd instinct seems to be the strongest human emotion, one that the race is constantly breeding off as the mavericks are liquidated. Happiness is running with the crowd.
John Train
#25. He (Captain Hook) was never more sinister than when he was most polite, which is probably the truest test of breeding.
J.M. Barrie
#26. By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations.
Anton Chekhov
#27. The librarian thought the problem was just that the right books weren't breeding with each other and proposed a forced mating program. The library committee had an epic secret meeting about the ethics of literary eugenics which ended in a furious deadlock.
Lev Grossman
#28. The only fundamental and possible Socialism is the socialization of the selective breeding of Man: in other terms, of human evolution We must eliminate the Yahoo, or his vote will wreck the commonwealth.
George Bernard Shaw
#29. Wyman's overpopulated universe is in many ways unlovely. It offends the aesthetic sense of us who have a taste for desert landscapes, but this is not the worst of it. Wyman's slum of possibles is a breeding ground for disorderly elements.
Willard Van Orman Quine
#30. Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction.
Arthur Keith
#31. If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.
Edith Wharton
#32. The conservation movement is a breeding ground of Communists and other subversives. We intend to clean them out, even if it means rounding up every bird watcher in the country.
John N. Mitchell
#33. What Mr. Friedman is suggesting is that if we don't drain the swamp where the rats are breeding, it won't really matter how many of these rats we kill; they will continue to leave the swamp and migrate to our cities in numbers that are legion.
Dick Couch
#34. They called it the bamboo-shoot existence, the onion life, every layer you peeled away made you cry more, and even if you could find the food you couldn't get it home because dysentery was breeding in the street mud and you might trail it back to your family.
Anonymous
#35. Let me tell you about those convents. All that crap about extending the pinkie finger while sipping tea is a myth. Convent schools are breeding grounds for great broads and occasionally one-of-the-boys. Convent schools teach you to play against everything, which is what I'm still doing.
Elaine Stritch
#36. 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 criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.
Val Kilmer
#37. Not everyone knows how to be silent or to leave in good time. It happens that even people of good breeding fail to notice that their presence provokes in the weary or preoccupied host a feeling akin to hatred, and that this feeling is tensely concealed and covered up with lies.
Anton Chekhov
#38. Impertinence will intermeddle in things in which it has no concern, showing a want of breeding, or, more commonly, a spirit of sheer impudence.
George Crabbe
#39. it's an attitude that mostly comes from immaturity, low self-esteem, and feelings of social powerlessness, and adolescence is a petri dish for those kinds of breeding conditions. I
Elliott James
#40. Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime.
Margaret Cavendish
#42. Paleness is always looked upon as a strong proof of aristocratic descent and distinguished breeding.
Alexandre Dumas
#44. Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it in our dealing with fools and unreasonable persons; for men of breeding and sense will be satisfied with reason and fair words.
Plutarch
#45. Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural.
Aristotle.
#46. Aggression is about competing. Competing for the male, for the female, competing for the person most fit for breeding. Competing for resources such as food and shelter. Competing for power, because without hierarchy there can't be social order. In other words, aggression occurs when it's profitable.
Patricia Cornwell
#47. Your father is your f-father regardless, Agnes. Birth and b-breeding do not always depend upon small matters like who provided the seed.
Mary Balogh
#48. Great imaginations are the breeding ground for great accomplishments!
Great imaginations are like horses, they need guidance and proper nurturing, only then do they offer the world of adventure they promise.
Marilynn Dawson
#49. People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
Van Wyck Brooks
#50. Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation.
David Quammen
#51. And yet Praecursoris is not punished the same way, only because it is not practical, and he is needed for breeding?
Naomi Novik
#52. While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps.
Meg Rosoff
#53. Routine and predictable days are the breeding grounds for complacency.
Wayde Goodall
#54. Bertie, it is imperative that you marry."
"But, dash it all ... "
"Yes! You should be breeding children to ... "
"No, really, I say, please!" I said, blushing richly. Aunt Agatha belongs to two or three of these women's clubs, and she keeps forgetting she isn't in the smoking-room.
P.G. Wodehouse
#55. I firmly believe that if you can't fool all of the people all of the time you should start breeding them for stupidity. - Weisshaupt
Dave Sim
#56. The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
Luther Burbank
#57. Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
Lillian Hellman
#58. 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 habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.
Agatha Christie
#59. Possibly drastic and Spartan methods may be forced upon American society if it continues complacently to encourage the chance and chaotic breeding that has resulted from our stupid, cruel sentimentalism.
Margaret Sanger
#60. No one but Gene Tierney could have played 'Laura.' There was no other actress around with her particular combination of beauty, breeding, and mystery.
Vincent Price
#61. Max, honey, do that again and I promise you won't get any cupcakes for a year." I gasp. She wouldn't! But the look on her face says she would. I sink back into my chair. "Holy shit, you're mean when you're breeding.
Belle Aurora
#62. What's different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That's what makes it both powerful and exciting.
Jeremy Rifkin
#63. Decay and disfavor came together as other parts of the coast were developed, and the canals became weed-clogged ditches breeding mosquitoes, and the hotels were turned into third-rate apartments.
Edward Bunker
#64. The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.
Leigh Hunt
#65. We are in a fool's climate, accidentally kept cool by smoke, and before this century is over billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable.
James Lovelock
#66. This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.
Bernard De Mandeville
#67. Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas.
Anna Lindh
#69. The moment his hand closed around his rigid staff, her own breeding parts went soft and quivering.
Tessa Dare
#70. 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 most susceptible to being discouraged.
Jim Elliot
#71. The lower classes are such fools. They waste their money on the pools. I bet, of course, but that's misleading. One must encourage bloodstock breeding.
Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae
#72. Now, it is well known, that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good breeding or of good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute point of fashionable etiquette.
Walter Scott
#73. Even as the population doubled from three to six billion, we managed to race ahead with all kinds of technological and scientific events in agriculture - from using more fertilizers to mechanization to advanced plant breeding.
Nina Fedoroff
#74. I have two children myself. I always laugh; they have you playing mothers pretty early, us women. You look at the television, the mothers get younger and younger, and the children get older and older, and you start to wonder when these people had these children. Were they breeding when they were 12?
Megan Follows
#75. If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.
Ken Auletta
#76. Yes, yes, children must early be made to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom 'good maxims' have been instilled and impressed, poured in through a funnel, thrashed in and preached in.
Max Stirner
#77. Beekeeper sing of your frustration
In this litigious breeze
Of accidental pollination
In this era without bees
We keep breeding desperation
In this era of thieves
Who keep stealing respiration
From the tenderest of trees
Andrew Bird
#78. The folkish philosophy of life must succeed in bringing about that nobler age in which men no longer are concerned with breeding dogs, horses, and cats, but in elevating man himself.
Adolf Hitler
#79. money cannot buy refinement of nature, that rank does not always confer nobility, and that true breeding makes itself felt in spite of external drawbacks. "I
Louisa May Alcott
#80. Terminological infelicities have a way of breeding conceptual confusion.
Donald Davidson
#81. Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it.
Thomas Hunt Morgan
#82. The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
Joseph Addison
#83. Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#84. I think the wildest wildlife you can find these days is in Chernobyl, where wolves are running around breeding quite well in the nuclear disaster zones.
Aleksandra Mir
#85. Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war.
Adam Schiff
#86. In summary, for many companies, China has the potential to become the world's leading breeding ground for growth and innovation. Being
Edward Tse
#87. An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat.
Guy Finley
#88. I shall be as tender to you as my father was not to me. For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on who went before?
Hilary Mantel
#89. Those are serious questions of war and peace, of freedom or tyranny, whether or not there is ever going to be a hope of us instilling some democratic systems in a part of the world that frankly is breeding hate and destruction directed right at us.
Zach Wamp
#90. Paris is one of the fashion capitals of the world and such an incredible breeding ground for designers. You can't help but find it an inspiring place.
Alice Temperley
#91. Travelling through the breeding places of our species is far from being as interesting to me as it is to inspect the breeding places of the feathery tribes of our country.
John James Audubon
#92. Every farm with slaves was a slave-breeding farm. Raising slaves was mostly a cottage industry ...
Ned Sublette
#93. True, men were mostly useless, but they served their purpose: trash removal, child rearing, and breeding.
G.A. Aiken
#94. In the 1970s, I bought some cheap horses, then decided that if I was going to be in it, I was going to go big time. So in 2001, Bill Casner, a partner with me in Excel, and I bought a breeding farm, WinStar Farm, together.
Kenny Troutt
#95. We are so dull that we rarely realize how much history lies hidden in marriage, and how the one word spoken by the bride makes all the difference between cattle-raising and a nation's good breeding.
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
#96. An offended heart is the breeding ground of deception.
John Bevere
#98. Behavior, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding.
Ambrose Bierce
#99. The little that he had said, thus far, had been sufficient to convince me that I was speaking to a gentleman. He had what I may venture to describe as the unsought self-possession, which is a sure sign of good breeding, not in England only, but everywhere else in the civilized world.
Wilkie Collins
#100. Loving someone condemns you to a lifetime of fear. You become painfully conscious of how fragile people are - bundles of brittle bones and vulnerable flesh, breeding grounds for billions of deadly germs and horrible diseases.
Barbara Mertz
