quotations about heredity
What are we but the blended parts
Of countless sires, who live through all the years
In us? Our pulses throb through th' influence
Of long-forgotten lives.
CHRISTOPHER MURRAY DAWSON
Avonmore and Other Poems
The very doctrine of ancestral influences, as taught by externalists who believe in heredity, is the outside shell of a great spiritual truth ; yea, their conclusions are quite correct, only they go no further than effects and secondary causes.
WILLIAM WILBERFORCE J. COLVILLE
Inspirational Lectures and Impromptu Poems
Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Heredity is nothing but stored environment.
LUTHER BURBANK
attributed, The Wordsworth Book of Humorous Quotations
Heredity is when you wind up with your mother's complexion; environment is when you wind up with your father's car.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
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.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
1Q84
If we could know as intimately as we know our more immediate parents the long line of ancestors through whom the family spirit has passed on its way to us, we should probably become fatalists in face of the apparently overwhelming evidence that there is nothing in us that has not come to us from, or at least through, the Family. Family portrait galleries are a striking confirmation of the persistence of characteristics which ultimately govern the fortunes of successive generations.
HELEN DENDY BOSANQUET
The Family
Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.
JAMES MARK BALDWIN
attributed, The Soul Genome: Science and Reincarnation
Heredity is something you believe in if you have a very bright child
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
The sole instrument of life was heredity, which made the world; so that if one could only understand it, master it and make it do one's bidding, one could remake the world at will.
EMILE ZOLA
Le Docteur Pascal
I am the family face;
Flesh perishes, I live on,
Projecting trait and trace
Through time to times anon,
And leaping from place to place
Over oblivion.
THOMAS HARDY
"Heredity"
The tainted past may bring forth flowers,
As blossomed Aaron's rod;
No legacy of sin annuls
Heredity from God.
LYDIA AVERY COONLEY WARD
"Heredity", Golden Poems by British and American Authors
Heredity is the law through which the individual receives from his parents by birth his chief vital forces and tendencies, his physical and spiritual capital.
AMORY HOWE BRADFORD
Heredity and Christian Problems
The fact and law of heredity is indeed one of the most mysterious elements in our complex organization, and it is difficult to state it without overstating it. We are organized beings. To exist is to have the power of manifestation.
ELIZA THAYER CLAPP
Essays, Letters, and Poems
What is in your blood matters, but not as much as what is in your heart.
SONJA YOERG
All the Best People
Heredity is that biological law by which all beings endowed with life tend to repeat themselves in their descendants. It is for the species what personal identity is for the individual. By it a ground work remains unchanged amid incessant variations, by it nature ever copies and imitates herself.
THEODULE RIBOT
Heredity: A Psychological Study of Its Phenomena, Laws, Causes, and Consequences
It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care--and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Lectures and Essays
Of course, heredity is not destiny though many people write and speak of heredity as if it were. For example, each individual is endowed by heredity with a potential height, but this does not mean that he will attain that height or possibly surpass it. Environment plays a vital part. Due to starvation or malnutrition, the individual may be stunted. Likewise, due to malfunction of the glandular system, further stimulated by diet, he may grow to be taller than was his endowed heredity.
MELVIN E. PAGE & H. LEON ABRAMS
Your Body Is Your Best Doctor
Heredity's far-reaching power
Still fates man in his brightest hour
CHRISTOPHER MURRAY DAWSON
Avonmore and Other Poems
Poverty is hereditary just like power, stupidity, and hemorrhoids.
FISTON MWANZA MUJILA
Tram 83