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Quotes About Breeding

Antiabortion activists, like eugenicists, think that the state has the right to intervene in the breeding habits of poor single women.
~ Unknown
our relentless class system evolved out of recurring agrarian notions regarding the character and potential of the land, the value of labor, and critical concepts of breeding. Embarrassing lower-class populations have always been numerous, and have always been seen on the North American continent as waste people.
~ Unknown
However, when pesticides are sprayed over large agricultural areas, they kill a large fraction of the total insect population, ensuring that the hardy survivors breed only with other hardy survivors; the very next generation may display resistance. The more extensive the agricultural use, the more likely bugs are to evolve resistance rapidly, and the less effective the pesticide is likely to be when you need it for disease control.
~ Naomi Oreskes
Fannie Moore, interviewed in North Carolina in 1937, recalled that (as transcribed): "De 'breed woman' always bring mo' money den de res', [even the] men. When dey put her on de block dey put all her chillun aroun her to show folks how fas she can hab chillun."12 Mary L. Swearingen of Bastrop, Louisiana, paraphrasing her enslaved grandmother, said, "Whenever a woman was an extraordinary breeder, she was mated by the master to his own accord.
~ Unknown
It is the living nature of resistance. It exists in a constant flux, changing, breeding, metastasizing. All information about it's internal processes is rendered obsolete by revelation.
~ Unknown
Improving upon nature is the very essence of plant breeding, and so it goes to the heart of one of the central debates of the human condition: the relationship between humanity and nature and the degree to which the human race has a right (or indeed a responsibility) to change plant life for its own ends.
~ Unknown
Intelligence is ongoing, individual adaptability. Adaptations that an intelligent species may make in a single generation, other species make over many generations of selective breeding and selective dying. Yet intelligence is demanding. It is misdirected by accident or by intent, it can foster its own orgies of breeding and dying.
~ Octavia E. Butler
INTELLIGENCE IS ONGOING, INDIVIDUAL adaptability. Adaptations that an intelligent species may make in a single generation, other species make over many generations of selective breeding and selective dying. Yet intelligence is demanding. If it is misdirected by accident or by intent, it can foster its own orgies of breeding and dying.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Yet intelligence is demanding. If it is misdirected by accident or by intent, it can foster its own orgies of breeding and dying.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Adaptations that an intelligent species may make in a single generation, other species make over many generations of selective breeding and selective dying. Yet intelligence is demanding. If it is misdirected by accident or by intent, it can foster its own orgies of breeding and dying.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
I'm going to be a big sister," Emily said. "My daddy breeded my mommy, like Chinook with the mares." Megan coughed, choking on her tea. Jack looked over at Nate. "What the hell did you tell this child?" Nate shrugged. "It's not what we said. It's what she put together. She does live on a stud farm, you know." Janet fought not to laugh. "Congratulations! You must be so excited.
~ Pamela Clare
Humans, in her experience, were weak and fragile things prone to dying and breeding with about the same frequency.
~ Patricia Briggs
I do not, of course, propose to neglect the sick, the feeble or the unfortunate," wrote Galton, "but I would exact an equivalent for the charitable assistance they receive by preventing the more faulty members of the flock from breeding." Galton argued that lunatics, criminals, and paupers should be placed in monasteries and convents "for the purpose of restricting their opportunities for producing low-class offspring." Breeding had become weeding.
~ Paul A. Offit
Founded in 1868, Dickens, like most California towns except for Irvine, which was established as a breeding ground for stupid, fat, ugly, white Republicans and the chihuahuas and East Asian refugees who love them, started out as an agrarian community.
~ Paul Beatty
He's getting old. I don't count the years. I don't multiply by seven. They bred dogs for everything else, even diving for fish, why didn't they breed them to live longer, to live as long as a man?
~ Peter Heller
They bred dogs for everything else, even diving for fish, why didn't they breed them to live longer, to live as long as a man?
~ Peter Heller
Then he set the peeled branches in the watering troughs in front of the flocks coming in to drink. So when the flocks were in heat and came to drink,
~ Genesis 30:38
they mated in front of the branches. And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.
~ Genesis 30:39
Jacob set apart the young, but made the rest face the streaked dark-colored sheep in Labanís flocks. Then he set his own stock apart and did not put them with Labanís animals.
~ Genesis 30:40
Whenever the stronger females of the flock were in heat, Jacob would place the branches in the troughs, in full view of the animals, so that they would breed in front of the branches.
~ Genesis 30:41
When the flocks were breeding, I saw in a dream that the streaked, spotted, and speckled males were mating with the females.
~ Genesis 31:10