Quotes with breeding-ground

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  • Lyndon B. Johnson For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Jean Rostand God, that dumping ground of our dreams.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Gonna be a twister to blow everything down
    That ain't got the faith to stand its ground
    Blow away the dreams that tear you apart
    Blow away the dreams that break your heart
    Blow away the lies that leave you nothing but lost and brokenhearted.
    Darkness On The Edge Of Town (1978) The Promised Land
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Mark Twain Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alexander Pope Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Mark Twain He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II He who slings mud generally loses ground.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Austan Goolsbee I believe - I'm not a political expert, but I believe there is a broad consensus, a middle ground if you will, that Democrats and Republicans, business people and workers can agree on, to get this - the economy growing faster, getting people back to work.
    Austan Goolsbee
    American economist (1969 - )
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  • Alfred Kastler I must confess that, at that time, I had absolutely no knowledge of the slowness of the relaxation processes in the ground state, processes which take place in collisions with the wall or with the molecules of a foreign gas.
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  • William Shakespeare I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Virgil I too must attempt a way by which I can raise myself above the ground, and soar triumphant through the lips of men.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I try to focus moment to moment on being an aware, responsible, contributive member of society. You see trash on the ground, pick it up!
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Bob Richards I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.
    Bob Richards
    American athlete (1926 - )
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  • Audie Murphy I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air.
    Audie Murphy
    American soldier, actor and songwriter (1925 - 1971)
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  • Anne Stevenson I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Lord Chesterfield If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Alan Thicke If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor and songwriter (1947 - 2016)
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