“ 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- Copy
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“ With him for a sire, and her for a dam What should I be, but just what I am? ”
- Edna St. Vincent Millay- Copy
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“ One of the best things people could do for their descendants would be to sharply limit the number of them. ”
- Olin Miller- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. ”
- Plutarch- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Thomas Overbury- Copy
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“ The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him Is aristocracy. ”
- Emily Dickinson- Copy
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“ I am the beneficiary of a lucky break in the genetic sweepstakes. ”
- Isaac Asimov- Copy
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“ Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone. ”
- John Ciardi- Copy
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“ A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other. ”
- Laurence J. Peter- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- George Kennedy- Copy
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“ As times change, you want to really revere your heredity, but you don't want to be a shrine. to light candles and kneel. ”
- Kitty D’Alessio- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- John B. S. Haldane- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Henry Louis- Copy
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“ Heredity is a strong factor, even in architecture. Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma. ”
- Elwyn Brooks White- Copy
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“ Heredity: An omnibus in which all our ancestors ride, and every now and then, one of them puts his head out and embarasses us. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ One of the best things that ever happened to me was Rocky Horror being a total flop in New York as a play. I mean, it was a disaster, and it was the night of the long knives as far as the critics were concerned. ”
- Tim Curry- Copy
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