Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Eliot

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds -- not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but -- a hatred of all injury.

Charisma Carpenter

I'm a mixed breed and hope to live longer because of it.

What this does for our program is that it breeds success.

Kylie Bax

My aim and my passion is to own and breed race horses.

Kym Whitley

My parents were funny. My brothers were funny. We just laughed and had a good time. Growing up, it breeds that. It breeds your funny. It breeds your creativity.

Martin Freeman

Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.

Kerry Condon

I'm used to riding horses. My father used to breed horses when I was a child. I grew up in Tipperary, in the country, and lots of people have horses there. If my parents hadn't been in the business, we would have them anyway, as pets. And my cousin Richard is a jockey.

When you're able to come back in the fashion that we did, it breeds confidence.

Twyla Tharp

Balzac loved courtesans. They were independent women, and in the 19th century, that was a breed that was just evolving.

There is a whole new breed of marathoner who wouldn't even have considered running something like a marathon. In the past, people ran if they were exercise junkies. The marathon held the ultimate challenge for them.

Josh McCown

When you compete and put that out there, it's going to breed some success." ()

Sharon Kay Penman

Many people don't know that New Jersey is a fertile breeding ground for writers, some of them quite renowned. And I would wager that most would be truly startled to learn that the star in the Jersey firmament is - drum roll here - Newark.

She's really doing New York. This is the toughest breed to catch, and she's traveling.

the political, social and economic inequalities that provide a fertile breeding ground for exploitation by extremists.

The pig is an outstanding model to study human diseases. Understanding the pig genome should provide enormous opportunities for treating human disorders like obesity, diabetes and heart disease. It also could improve the breeding of pigs to produce human-transplant organs.

Don Yaeger

In the 1970s, professional sports found a different breed of team owner in George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees.

Everyone knows that the broadband era will breed a new generation of online services, but this is only half of the story. Like any innovation, broadband will inflict major changes on its environment. It will destroy, once and for all, the egalitarian vision of the Internet.

Kevin O'Leary

My problem with unions is they breed mediocrity.

When you start to think about politicians, you've got to realize these are strange creatures. Other than the fact that they can't tell directions, and they have very strange breeding habits, how do you actually work with these things?

To me, there's been an ongoing concern from the neighborhood, the residents right near East Campus, about the level of activity, the underage drinking, the whole environment. In my opinion, when you have that type of environment, it's a breeding ground for trouble. What's our plan for dealing with it?

George Bernard Shaw

The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.

Alice Temperley

Paris is one of the fashion capitals of the world and such an incredible breeding ground for designers. You can't help but find it an inspiring place.

Volunteering is one of the greatest experiences you can ever have at the festival. It's the ultimate breeding ground of opportunity for all those interested in the arts, education, entertainment, film, music and event production fields. Whether you're here just to have some fun this summer or if you really want to explore career opportunities, it's all here, including the work experience and the networking with successful professionals, executives and Hollywood icons.

When you sell stock to the customers, they breed business,

Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish.

Ban Ki-moon

Nuclear tests poison the environment - and they also poison the political climate. They breed mistrust, isolation and fear.

Perhaps this is signaling a reversal of the longer-run trend of the breeding herd moving away from the eastern Corn Belt. In 1990, 27 percent of the U.S. breeding herd was in the eastern Corn Belt. That portion declined steadily to a low of only 17.2 percent in 2004.

Val Kilmer

One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.

One very obvious indication elephants don't do well in captivity is the fact that zoos are having so much trouble breeding them.

Leon Uris

My guiding thought throughout was that the real Marine story had not been told. We were a different breed of men who looked at war in a different way.

I don't know what we have for next year, but success breeds success and we did it with quality guys this year and we're so proud of them.

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

Seth Shostak

Some pundits have proposed that the aliens have come here to breed with us. Apparently, too much bike riding or something similar has rendered them incapable of reproducing within their own species. But do extraterrestrial infants toddle through your neighborhood?