#bred

I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment. ↗

— Amos Oz

#born #bred #i #i was born #tiny

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man. ↗

— Gordon Ramsay

#america #become #chef #double-edged #double-edged sword

There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia. ↗

— David Remnick

#bred #brutal #corruption #field #free

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#bred #ceases #certainties #change #doubts

As for my brothers, of whom I had three, I know not how they were bred. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#brothers #had #how #i #know

My son - and what's a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness. ↗

— Thomas Kyd

#darkness #lump #minutes #pair #son

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart. ↗

— John Ruskin

#deformity #ever #heart #kind #manners

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#bred #competition #desire #doubt #foremost

I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian. ↗

— Willie Stargell

#early #i #indian #outcast #part

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#best #bred #converse #easy #fewest