heredity

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

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

The line from psychologists is, if you__e seen it before, it hasn__ killed you yet.

History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what do do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.

Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation. Genes don't think about what constitutes good or evil. They don't care whether we are happy or unhappy. We're just means to an end for them. The only thing they think about is what is most efficient for them.

Many races as well as cultural influences of men of all kinds have mixed into any man. To select, for approbation the peculiar elements that come from some supposedly Jewish heredity is to open the door to all kinds of nonsense on racial theory.

The best blood will sometimes get into a fool or a mosquito.

The child is father to the man.

With him for a sire and her for a dam What should I be but just what I am?

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

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.

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

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

A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

It runs in the blood like wooden legs.

Heredity is nothing but stored environment.

Clever father clever daughter clever mother clever son.

The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato - the only good belonging to him is underground.