Quotes Tagged With :heredity

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

The line from psychologists is, if you’ve seen it before, it hasn’t killed you yet.

Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve....

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

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

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

The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato - the only good....

Every man is the son of his own works.

Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

Many races as well as cultural influences of men of all kinds have mixed into any man. To select, for....