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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)