Hereditary Quotes

I finally demonstrated that typhus infection is not hereditary in the louse.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.

The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.

I think the whole under-eye-bag thing is hereditary, and I just got lucky.

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.

There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.

I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor.

Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.

OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.

I am not a hereditary politician and do not have any substantial asset.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

I was born with this. It's a hereditary genetic condition. This is something you can go your whole life without really knowing that something's wrong. I had high blood pressure, and that was the first sign.

In Pakistan politics is hereditary.

We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.