Top 344 Breeding Quotes & Sayings

Television, the drug of the nation, breeding ignorance and feeding radiation.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe, the guarded blood of centuries, should pass in review,in such manner as that we could, at leisure, and critically inspect their behavior, we might find no gentleman, and no lady; for, although excellent specimens of courtesy and high-breeding would gratify us in the assemblage, in the particulars, we should detect offence. Because, elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

Plant breeding has been going on for millennia and it's a gradual process.

Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.

A single profane expression betrays a man's low breeding.

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.

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

The welfare system is the breeding ground of crime, addiction and radical politics.

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

The breeding of shepherd dogs is the breeding of working dogs; and this must always be the aim, or we shall cease to produce shepherd dogs.

People simply shouldn't buy puppies without a breeding certificate.

My early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds.

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

Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.

One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals.

My wife and I started a breeding program where we breed American quarter horses.

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

In a way, human beings have never been part of the natural order; we're not biological in the normal sense. Normal biological animals stop eating when they're not hungry and stop breeding when there is no sense in breeding. By contrast, human beings are what I think of as "biomythic" animals: we're controlled largely by the stories we tell. When we get the story wrong, we get out of harmony with the rest of the natural order. For a long time, our unnatural beahvior didn't threaten the natural world, but now it does.

The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.

There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding.

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.

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.

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.

Good manners come, as we say, from good breeding or rather are good breeding; and breeding is acquired by habitual action, in response to habitual stimuli, not by conveying information.

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

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

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

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

An offended heart is the breeding ground of deception.

An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat.

For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on what went before.

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

Gay sex is a veritable breeding ground for disease.

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

The cow can be saved only if buffalo-breeding is given up.

The ear in man and beast is an evidence of blood and high breeding.

The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.

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

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

The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.

He who reflects on another man's want of breeding, shows he wants it as much himself

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.

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.

As maize became important for human food worldwide, modern agricultural research on maize breeding continued the corn breeding begun thousands of years ago in the Central American highlands.

I do speak well as I went to a posh school. But I come from no real breeding.

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

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

Behavior, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding.

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

These puppy mills are horrific. It's totally for-profit breeding. It's despicable.

He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others

Terminological infelicities have a way of breeding conceptual confusion.

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

I'm always very interested in breeding. Raising cacti is breeding. My lotus plant collection is breeding. The insects are breeding.

Civility, which is a disposition to accommodate and oblige others, is essentially the same in every country; but good breeding, asit is called, which is the manner of exerting that disposition, is different in almost every country, and merely local; and every man of sense imitates and conforms to that local good breeding of the place which he is at.

I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding

Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war.

I've been breeding Dobies for years. Almost won the breed in Westminster at one time.