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Heredity Quotes and Quotations

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.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man is the son of his own works.

- Cervantes

Heredity is nothing but stored environment.

- Luther Burbank

One of the best things people could do for their descendants would be to sharply limit the number of them.

- Olin Miller

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

- Woodrow Wilson

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

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

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

- Plutarch

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

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

The child is father to the man.

- William Wordsworth

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

- John Ciardi

Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

- Voltaire

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

- Austin O'Malley

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

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

- Anonymous

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

- Emily Dickinson

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

- Samuel Butler

When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man.

- Lord Northcliffe

It runs in the blood like wooden legs.

- Cheshire Saying

Noble fathers have noble children.

- Euripides

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

- Matthew

He's a chip o' th' old block.

- William Rowley

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

- Russian proverb