Breed Quotes

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
Stephen Hawking

Understand, Special, Universe

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Constant, Contempt, Exposure

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
Charles Kingsley

Work, Best, Strength

Breed is stronger than pasture.
George Eliot

Stronger, Pasture

Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.
Vidal Sassoon

Work, Human, Another

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
Emily Bronte

Sad, Proud, Themselves

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
Francis Bacon

Opinion, Lies, Substance

We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Men, Cannot, Here

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
William Hazlitt

Doubt, Give, Reason

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.
George Santayana

Free, Reflection, Middle

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
William Hazlitt

May, Off, Though

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
William Penn

Men, Children, Dogs

There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary.
Dave Barry

Fashion, Models, Dictionary

I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
Larry David

Dying, Talking, Walking

In an interesting inversion of status, the reigning breed in the dog park these days is the really-oddball-unidentifiable-mixed-breed-mutt-found-wandering-the-street or its equivalent. The stranger the mutt the better; the more peculiar the circumstance of it coming into your life, the better.
Susan Orlean

Life, Days, Dog

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?
John Milton

I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them.
Michael Bloomberg

Thought, Books, Laws

In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them.
Twyla Tharp

Good, Women, Today

Boston is actually the capital of the world. You didn't know that? We breed smart-ass, quippy, funny people. Not that I'm one of them. I just sorta sneaked in under the radar.
John Krasinski

Funny, Actually, Boston

Oh, we want a new breed of men before India can be cleansed of her disease.
Sarojini Naidu

Men, Before, Her

You're now getting a new breed of people like Il Divo and Andrea Bocelli and I think that's why people feel less intimidated by classical music than they once did.
Katherine Jenkins

Music, Why, Once

Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
Jack Kemp

War, Timidity, Councils

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.
Knute Rockne

Life, Success, Football

For me, being a woman suits what I want to talk about and what my audience wants to hear. Maybe I'm a dying breed.
Jenny Eclair

Woman, Talk, Dying

As the 1960s began, a new breed of Hollywood leading lady was emerging. She was elegant, international, and wonderfully comedic.
Maureen O'Hara

She, Lady, Hollywood

Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm one of that breed.
Mercedes McCambridge

Work, Try, Actor

Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.
Timothy Radcliffe

Truth, Violence, Claiming

I've got a farm in England where I breed horses.
Davy Jones

England, Farm, Horses

Successful people breed success.
Phil Crosby

Success, Successful

Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.
Alyssa Milano

Hard, Career, Insecure

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