Breeding Quotes

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

Exchange of breeding individuals between two populations tends to homogenize their gene pools.

Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse.

The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because easy listening and folk were kind of taking over the airwaves. I think it was a natural next step to take that blissful, easy-going sound and strangle the life out of it.

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

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.

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.

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

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.

You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.

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.

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.

Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war.

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

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.

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

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.

The divergence of songs in the new population away from those in the progenitor population would only be prevented if these processes were balanced by repeated immigration and subsequent breeding: song flow.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.

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.

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.

It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.