A Quote by William Cobbett

I was a countryman and a father before I was a writer on political subjects... Born and bred up in the sweet air myself, I was resolved that my children should be bred up in it too.

William Cobbett

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William Cobbett
English - Politician
March 9, 1763 - June 18, 1835

I didn't grow up with my father in my life, and that bred a resentment in me, and it bred a mentality in me that made me very angry.

Rashad Evans

The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, "the sweet seriousness of sixteen," the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, the passionate histories in the looks and manners of youth and early manhood, and the varied power in all that well-known company that escort us through life,--we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire, and enlarge us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldome end well.

George Herbert

Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can't be too optimistic.

Seamus Heaney

Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.

John Locke

I grew up in New York City, and I'm a city boy, born and bred.

Ben Schnetzer

We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.

Barbara Kingsolver

First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.

Margaret Cavendish

Today is built on tragedies, which no one wants to face, nightmares to humanities and morally disgraced. Tonight is filled with rage, violence in the air, children bred with ruthlessness because no one at home cares.

Tupac Shakur

The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future.

Henry Lawson

I love watching a good horse do what he's bred to do - I guess that's what I like the most about it. And I love to see good athletes do what they're bred to do.

Wilford Brimley

It's an amazingly consistent thing with Irish people. We will talk to strangers at parties for hours. It's what we were bred to do I think. And the Jewish people were bred to write the stuff that we say.

Greg Fitzsimmons

Yes, I'm a New Yorker, born and bred. While I'm not quite the L.A. snob that Woody Allen is, I do find myself happier in New York.

Corey Stoll

Huskies get in trouble. Huskies are well-known to be escape artists. Why? Because they were bred to go long-distance. They're not bred to be in the backyard and just look beautiful because they have blue eyes.

Cesar Millan

I was born and bred to be a great flirt.

Cybill Shepherd

Derby born and bred, mate.

Lauren Socha

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