Hereditary Quotes

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
Sam Levenson

Children, Insanity

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

Good, Idea, Toward

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

Remember, Virtue, Planning

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.
Camille Paglia

Women, Living, Capitalism

In Pakistan politics is hereditary.
Imran Khan

Politics, Pakistan

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

Wisdom, Poetry, Mind

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

Tell, Genius, Heaven

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

History, Live, Before

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

Government, Present, Seems

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

Disorder, Dyslexic

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

Control, Families, Royal

Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.
Doris Day

Children, Parents, Wrinkles

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

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.
Steven Cojocaru

Life, Wrong, Whole

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

Politician, Asset

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

May, Earth, Greater

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

Chance, Stand, Whether

I finally demonstrated that typhus infection is not hereditary in the louse.
Charles Jules Henry Nicole

Finally, Infection, Louse

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