Quote by George Eliot
Breed is stronger than pasture. - George Eliot

Breed is stronger than pasture. – George Eliot

Other quotes by George Eliot

The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. – George Eliot

Category:
Obscurity
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Tis God gives skill, but not without mens hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivariuss violins without Antonio. – George Eliot

Category:
Violins
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Other Quotes from
Ancestry, Ancestors
category

Genealogy. An account of ones descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own. – Ambrose Bierce

We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights they have delivered to our care. We owe it to our posterity not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed. – Junius

Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us. – Van Wyck Brooks

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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If one swallows a cup of chocolate only three hours after a copious lunch, everything will be perfectly digested and there will still be room for dinner. – Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires. – Bradley Chicho

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