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Quotes About Breed

If I could rest anywhere it would be in Arkansaw where the men are of the real half-horse, half-alligator breed such as grows nowhere else on the face of the earth.
~ David Crockett
I have a good friend who's a Texas girl; Texas girls are a whole different breed.
~ John Cusack
It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
~ Henry A. Kissinger
My dog is half pit bull, half poodle. Not much of a watchdog, but a vicious gossip!
~ Craig Shoemaker
There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.
~ Pindar
That loss was to breed an independence, a toughness of spirit, and an awareness of adversity and discipline that have never left me,.
~ Gary Player
but these backwaters of existence sometimes breed, in their sluggish depths, strange acuities of emotion... (Afterward)
~ Edith Wharton
Speculators buy the trend; investors are in for the long haul; they are a different breed of cats. One reason that people lose money today is that they have lost sight of this distinction; they profess to have the long term in mind and yet cannot resist following where the hot money has led.
~ Edwin Lefevre
Finn is just a stormtrooper, and stormtroopers are no longer clones, so they are bred from birth to fight. He's not too sure about it, so he escapes and meets Rey and Poe and BB8, and their stories kind of mesh together, and they go on a major adventure.
~ John Boyega
Why did you have children?' Bertie asked, later in their lives. 'Was it just the biological imperative to breed?' 'That's why everyone has children,' Viola said. 'They just dress it up as something more sentimental.') Viola
~ Kate Atkinson
Continentals are unable to be butlers because they are as a breed incapable of the emotional restraint which only the English race is capable of. Continentals
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
A man of my kidney.
~ William Shakespeare
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
~ George Eliot, Middlemarch
If you abuse a collie when it is a puppy, she may shy away from people when she grows up. If you abuse a German shepherd, she may bite people when she is an adult. A pit bull may kill people when she grows up. A shih tzu will probably still love people when she grows up (and maybe become a therapist).
~ Jay Carter
I have two poodles - I'm a poodle person.
~ Kathryn Newton
I have a dog. It's an English mastiff called Dolly. Her middle name is Poppy.
~ Millie Bobby Brown
It is good to divert our sorrow for other things to the root of all, which is sin. Let our grief run most in that channel, that as sin bred grief, so grief may consume sin.
~ Richard Sibbes
no better way to improve breed. Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among decent people.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Without debating the usefulness or morality of planned parenthood, it may be verified by observation that any breed which stops its own increase gets crowded out by breeds which expand.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
I'd bet the leeches are looking for me. Because I glow and I'm wicked smart. They probably want to breed with me." (Regin)
~ Kresley Cole
Sevastyan shouldn't have taken on the responsibility of a new pet if he didn't have time to watch her. My breed is very destructive.
~ Kresley Cole
Don't forget that we lawyers, we're a higher breed of intellect, and so it's our privilege to lie. It's as clear as day. Animals can't even imagine lying: if you were to find yourself among some wild islanders, they too would only speak the truth until they learned about European culture.
~ zamyatin yevgeny ii
It is always the Germans who cause the trouble, what is it about Germans that they must molest and oppress?... They have never been civilized, said Sosthene...They were never conquered by Roman. They remain barbarians. Phoebe stared at him. It was a viewpoint... One is perhaps inclined to forget that even here in Britain that were four hundred years of the Pax Romana, he said gently. In Germany, no -- only the Vandals and the Goths. Every so often they burst out. It is in the breed.
~ Elswyth Thane
Unlike fairies who could produce only a single child every twenty years, Mud People bred like rodents.
~ Eoin Colfer