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Quotes About Bred

Having been bred amongst mountains I am always unhappy when in a flat country. Whenever the skirts of the horizon come on a level with myself I feel myself quite uneasy and generally have a headache. (Letter to Sir Walter Scott, 25 July 1802)
~ James Hogg
But I'll need a lot of them. Jungle pumas. Not these outlaws you see in the zoos. What's an outlaw? He'd kill you. Wouldn't they all? They might, but an outlaw does anyhow. If it was people, he would be a crazy person. It comes from being bred in captivity.
~ James M. Cain
The Sun is Low, to Say the Least, Although it is Well-Red; Yet, Since it Rises in the Yeast, It Should be Better Bred!
~ Gelett Burgess
He's such a dear, Mr. Garnet. A beautiful, pure, bred Persian. He has taken prizes. He's always taking something - generally food.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
But Dexter was raised on danger and bred on bluff, and this was exactly the kind of crisis that brought out the very best in me. So I took the initiative and broke the ice.
~ Jeff Lindsay
I'm from Tennessee. My mom lives in Nashville. I'm born and bred country. That's all I listen to.
~ Lucy Hale
It was a reaction bred into her from childhood. That was an explanation, not an excuse. The reaction shamed her, and yet she seemed powerless to banish it or keep it from affecting her behavior.
~ John Jakes
Coyotes don't eat dachshunds," Johnson said. "Dachshunds were bred to go down badger tunnels and drag the badgers out by their ass. A good-sized dachshund could weigh thirty pounds and has jaws like a crocodile. Old Dixie would straight-out fuck up a coyote.
~ John Sandford
Coyotes don't eat dachshunds," Johnson said. "Dachshunds were bred to go down badger tunnels and drag the badgers out by their ass. A good-sized dachshund could weigh thirty pounds and has jaws like a crocodile. Old Dixie would straight-out fuck up a coyote." "Didn't know that," Virgil said. —
~ John Sandford
Two classics stuck with them. Ender's Game delighted them all; here were soldiers who were just like them, except smaller. The main character was even bred to fight alien species like they were. The next day the members of the 8th greeted each other with the salutation ::Ho, Ender,:: until Brahe told them to knock it off and pay attention.
~ John Scalzi
Little kid comes in late ta school. Teacher says, "Why ya late?" Kid says, "Had a take a heifer down—get 'er bred." Teacher says, "Couldn't your ol' man do it?" Kid says, "Sure he could, but not as good as the bull." Mae
~ John Steinbeck
No dog is as well bred or as well mannered or as distinguished and handsome.
~ Eugene O'Neill
Discretion was bred into the Shippens' bones Whatever arguments, embarrassments , or regrets the family expressed were hidden behind their handsomely polished front doors.
~ Nancy Rubin Stuart
Bred for one purpose only, to die in man's sport.
~ Natalie Merchant