Heredity Quotes

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The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.

Characteristics cling to families.

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.

Heredity is nothing but stored environment.

I am the beneficiary of a lucky break in the genetic sweepstakes.

Noble fathers have noble children.

Every man is the son of his own works.

Several generations of slum environment will produce a slum heredity.

All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side of the other parent

Tobacco, UV rays, viruses, heredity, and age are the main causes of cancer.

All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

The precise form of an individual's activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which he came into the world. In other words, it is determined by his heredity.

I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.

All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger.

Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do to us

Good heredity and environment are necessary. You cannot compare the child of a savage with the child of a civilized person.

Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment.

Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.

Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

Heredity proposes and development disposes.

Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings.

Man is the control experiment of heredity and environment; and since his heredity controls him, he tries to control his environment.

Help! I'm being held prisoner by my heredity and environment.

Heredity: the traits that a disobedient child gets from the other parent.

We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege.

For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.

History sometimes acts as madly as heredity, and her most unpredictable performances are often her most glorious.

I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The young are themselves: the aging, their parents' children.

Your place in life is not fixed by heredity.

Heredity, to our understanding is not capable of giving to this illness (paraphilia) its characteristic form ... Heredity invents nothing, creates nothing anew; it has no imagination.

To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell

The child is father to the man.

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.

The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee A clover anytime to him Is aristocracy.

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.

The line from psychologists is, if you’ve seen it before, it hasn’t killed you yet.

What is in your blood matters, but not as much as what is in your heart.

Poverty is hereditary just like power, stupidity, and haemorrhoids.

A hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician.

Malcolm Gladwell can’t help being a pinhead. He was probably born that way.

Clever father clever daughter clever mother clever son.

One of the best things people could do for their descendants would be to sharply limit the number of them.

A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.

It runs in the blood like wooden legs.

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended but the glory belongs to our ancestors.