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Heredity Quotes


These are some of the best 'Heredity' quotations and sayings.


A genealogist is one who traces your family back as far as your money will go.

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

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

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.

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

Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son.

Every man is the son of his own works.

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

Heredity is nothing but stored environment.

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

Noble fathers have noble children.

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

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

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together-humble dependence and manly independence: humble dependence on God, and manly reliance on self.

Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

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