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Quotes About Breeds

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
~ George Eliot
What is an Earthman?" "An inferior sort of human that ought not to be allowed on Solaria because he breeds disease, master.
~ Isaac Asimov
We can not suppose that all the breeds were suddenly produced as perfect and as useful as we now see them; indeed, in many cases, we know that this has not been their history. The key is man's power of accumulative selection: nature gives successive variations; man adds them up in certain directions useful to him. In this sense he may be said to have made for himself useful breeds.
~ Charles Darwin
Some highly competent authorities are convinced that the setter is directly derived from the spaniel, and has probably been slowly altered from it. It is known that the English pointer has been
~ Charles Darwin
I have kept every breed which I could purchase or obtain, and have been most kindly favoured with skins from several quarters of the world, more especially by the Hon. W. Elliot from India, and by the Hon. C. Murray from Persia.
~ Charles Darwin
Great as the differences are between the breeds of pigeons, I am fully convinced that the common opinion of naturalists is correct, namely, that all have descended from the rock-pigeon (Columba livia), including under this term several geographical races or sub-species, which differ from each other in the most trifling respects.
~ Charles Darwin
Fear breeds a desire for simplicity. Good and evil. Right and wrong. Chains of command.
~ Solas
Tolerance over time breeds resentment. Only through understanding, that comes from the acceptance of one another's differences, shall we find true peace.
~ Erndell Scott, Paper Boats
In most cases, it gives a false impression of my views - but when i am confronting an extremist, I become a passionate defender of the opposite view... This, of course, is a senseless way to behave; it is over-reacting to a situation. But, in all fairness, there is something about extremism that breeds its own opposite.
~ Sydney J. Harris
They are very intelligent," she agreed, with a glance toward the window that made it somewhat ambiguous. "Anyway, that's how they—pigs—got domesticated. We have genetic data on many domesticated breeds, of course. Getting data on the Eurasian wild boar is harder, but we have plenty of that too. That's the source material. Where it gets fun is seeing all the combinations that emerge among the several million wild pigs running around Texas.
~ Neal Stephenson
Rudy is a mutt; my father says he's a cross between a chihuahua and a German shepherd, which must've been some wild dog sex.
~ Ned Vizzini
My kids are around pit bulls every day. In the '70s they blamed Dobermans, in the '80s they blamed German Shepherds, in the '90s they blamed the Rottweiler. Now they blame the Pit Bull.
~ Cesar Millan
But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.
~ Charles Dickens
Grace breeds delight in God, and delight breeds meditation. Meditation is a duty wherein consists the essentials of religion, and which nourishes the very life-blood of it.
~ Thomas Watson
poverty always breeds violence in one way or another.
~ Heather Graham
You know, a Beagle Poodle cross?" I tried to imagine a mixture of those two breeds leading to something good, and simply couldn't. I wasn't being Poodle-centric. I was pretty sure that Beagle breeders would have felt the same way.
~ Laurien Berenson
Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer.
~ Leo Rosten
There are all sorts of cute puppy dogs, but it doesn't stop people from going out and buying Dobermans.
~ Angus Young
breeds of dogs were developed and raised for food in Aztec Mexico, Polynesia, and ancient China.
~ Jared Diamond
Polynesians and Aztecs developed dog breeds specifically raised for food.
~ Jared Diamond
There is no measure in the occasion that breeds; therefore the sadness is without limit.
~ William Shakespeare
First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.
~ Huston Smith
Yet did you know that every dog alive today has a little wolf DNA? Not just huskies, who often look like wolves, but pugs, corgis, poodles? Chuhuahuas - they sometimes act like they still are wolves.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
The mother is a Chihuahua. The father, we're thinking Yorkie." "Max, you're a Chorkie!" CJ smiled down at me.
~ W. Bruce Cameron