Quotes with breeding-ground

Quotes 101 till 120 of 164.

  • Joe E. Lewis Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on.
    Joe E. Lewis
    American writer
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  • Cyril Connolly Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Rosa Parks Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground.
    Rosa Parks
    American activist in the civil rights movement (1913 - 2005)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Ben van Berkel That's what I love about Chicago... It is the staccato aspect of the skyscrapers. But the ground is very loose, very relaxed. It makes Chicago far more pleasant than other cities.
    Ben van Berkel
    Dutch architect
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  • Camille Paglia The born-yesterday French-besotted faddists, addicted sniffers of wet printer's ink, think they're starting on the ground floor; so they're condemned to another hundred years of trial and error. The rest of us can safely ignore them.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Raymond Chandler The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Bruce Jackson The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Buddha The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Aldous Huxley The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Herman Melville The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Aristotle The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Winston Churchill The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • C. Wright Mills The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Alice Walker The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ben Vereen The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.
    Ben Vereen
    American actor, dancer and singer (1946 - )
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