Heredity Quotes
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I finally demonstrated that typhus infection is not hereditary in the louse. (Quote by - Charles Jules Henry Nicole)
The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato. (Quote by - Thomas Overbury)
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us. (Quote by - Van Wyck Brooks)
With him for a sire, and her for a dam What should I be, but just what I am? (Quote by - Edna St. Vincent Millay)
The best blood will sometimes get into a fool or a mosquito. (Quote by - Austin O'Malley)
We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy. (Quote by - Ezra Stiles)
Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children. (Quote by - Doris Day)
One of the best things people could do for their descendants would be to sharply limit the number of them. (Quote by - Olin Miller)
The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people. (Quote by - Ezra Stiles)
The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee; A clover, anytime, to him Is aristocracy. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)
There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension. (Quote by - Paul Getty)
Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children. (Quote by - Sam Levenson)
I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. (Quote by - James Whistler)
A man finds room in a few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man. (Quote by - Lord Northcliffe)
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. (Quote by - Russian proverb)
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. (Quote by - Carl Sagan)
It runs in the blood like wooden legs. (Quote by - Cheshire Saying)
OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us. (Quote by - James Nasmyth)
Noble fathers have noble children. (Quote by - Euripides)
I was born with this. It's a hereditary genetic condition. This is something you can go your whole life without really knowing that something's wrong. I had high blood pressure , and that was the first sign. (Quote by - Steven Cojocaru)
A man's rootage is more important than his leafage. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
Heredity deals the cards; environment plays the hand. (Quote by - Charles L. Brewer)
I am the beneficiary of a lucky break in the genetic sweepstakes. (Quote by - Isaac Asimov)
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. (Quote by - Matthew)
Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule. (Quote by - Edward Gibbon)
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. (Quote by - Plutarch)
Every man is the son of his own works. (Quote by - Cervantes)
Heredity is nothing but stored environment. (Quote by - Luther Burbank)
Heredity is an omnibus in which all our ancestors ride, and every now and then one of them puts his head out and embarrasses us. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone. (Quote by - John Ciardi)
Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us. (Quote by - Harry Emerson Fosdick)
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. (Quote by - Walter Scott)
