Unless we maintain correctional institutions of such character that they create respect for law and government instead of breeding resentment and a desire for revenge, we are meeting lawlessness with stupidity and making a travesty of justice.
Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
Gay sex is a veritable breeding ground for disease.
A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.
One of the most disturbing ways that climate change is already playing out is through what ecologists call "mismatch" or "mistiming. " This is the process whereby warming causes animals to fall out of step with a critical food source, particularly at breeding times, when a failure to find enough food can lead to rapid population losses.
Happy he who far from business persuits Tills and re-tills his ancestral lands With oxen of his own breeding Having no slavish yoke about his neck.
The final greatness of the presidency lies in the truth that it is not just an office of incredible power but a breeding ground of indestructible myth.
I'm a mixed breed and hope to live longer because of it.
I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.
A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding for it, and you can't buy it with money. It just happens along.
The breeding programs for the bulls have improved significantly. The bulls are at a much higher caliber.
An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat.
I think Obama sees everything through one lens. Doing nothing in the face of the slaughter in Syria is not only shameful, it is unrealistic. This approach leaves Syria as a broken country and a breeding ground for extremists for decades.
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it.
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.
Texans are the only race of people known to anthropologists who do not depend on breeding for propagation. Like princes and lords, they can be made by breath; plus a big hat-which comparatively few Texans wear.
. . . enforced Christianity was the surest breeding ground for unbelief. Many men either became unbelievers or met unbelievers during their military service.
He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others