Breeding Quotes:

Democracy is the breeding ground of communism,

- Augusto Pinochet

topic: Democracy, Communism, Breeding

Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.

- Caroline Knapp

topic: Solitude, Way, Breeding, Idiosyncrasies

I'm a mixed breed and hope to live longer because of it.

- Charisma Carpenter

topic: Breeding, Hope To Live

The breeding programs for the bulls have improved significantly. The bulls are at a much higher caliber.

- Chris LeDoux

topic: Bulls, Program, Breeding, Caliber

Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.

- Democritus

topic: Character, Men, Breeding, Cattle, Good Breeding

Terminological infelicities have a way of breeding conceptual confusion.

- Donald Davidson

source: Donald Davidson (2001). “Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective: Philosophical Essays”, p.154, Clarendon Press

topic: Confusion, Way, Breeding

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

topic: Dog, Silly, Breeding

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

- Fanny Kemble

source: Fanny Kemble (1890). “Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters, Forming a Sequel to Record of a Girlhood, and Records of Later Life”

topic: Simplicity, Elements, Breeding, Good Breeding

An offended heart is the breeding ground of deception.

- John Bevere

topic: Heart, Deception, Breeding, Breeders

Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears the least.

- Joseph Addison

topic: Eye, Ordinary, Breeding, Good Breeding

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

topic: Children, Made, Breeding

Every farm with slaves was a slave-breeding farm. Raising slaves was mostly a cottage industry...

- Ned Sublette

source: Ned Sublette (2008). “The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square”, p.229, Chicago Review Press

topic: Cottages, Slave, Breeding

So you are the people tearing down the Brazilian rainforest and breeding cattle.

- Prince Philip

topic: People, Breeding, Rainforest, Cattle

Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.

- Sam Shepard

topic: Sides, Fence, Breeding, Anti-american

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

topic: Years, Two, Breeding

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

topic: People, Prowess, Breeding

Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.

- Violet Bonham Carter

topic: Life, Space, Breeding

Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.

- William Wycherley

topic: Love, Quality, Breeding

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

topic: Ancestry, Signals, Breeding, Steadiness, Quietness

Good-breeding carries along with it a dignity that is respected by the most petulant. Ill-breeding invites and authorizes the familiarity of the most timid.

- Lord Chesterfield

source: Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.250, Wildside Press LLC

topic: Dignity, Breeding, Ill, Good Breeding

Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding.

- Susan Cain

source: Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.25, Broadway Books

topic: Shyness, Breeding, Mark

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

- Thomas Carlyle

source: Thomas Carlyle (1833). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Zenfelsdröck in Three Books”, p.165

topic: Rights, Remember, Breeding, Good Breeding

The computers are not replacing mathematicians; they are breeding them.

- Martin Gardner

source: Martin Gardner (1961). “The 2nd Scientific American book of mathematical puzzles & diversions, a new selection”

topic: Computer, Breeding, Mathematician

In general, the larger the breeding population, the slower the rate of evolution.

- Michio Kaku

source: Michio Kaku (1999). “Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century”, p.326, OUP Oxford

topic: Population, Evolution, Breeding

I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.

- William Congreve

source: 'The Way of the World' (1700) act 1, sc. 9

topic: Guilt, Breeding, Blushing

Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

topic: Foundation, Breeding, Good Nature, Good Breeding

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

source: Ilona Andrews (2013). “Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel”, p.24, Penguin

topic: Six, Breeding, Paperwork

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

source: Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.139, Reprint Services Corporation

topic: Ancestry, Signals, Breeding