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Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this. (Quote by - E. Stanley Jones)

I finally demonstrated that typhus infection is not hereditary in the louse. (Quote by - Charles Jules Henry Nicole)

The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato. (Quote by - Thomas Overbury)

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)

Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors. (Quote by - Voltaire)

Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us. (Quote by - Van Wyck Brooks)

With him for a sire, and her for a dam What should I be, but just what I am? (Quote by - Edna St. Vincent Millay)

The best blood will sometimes get into a fool or a mosquito. (Quote by - Austin O'Malley)

We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy. (Quote by - Ezra Stiles)

Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children. (Quote by - Doris Day)

One of the best things people could do for their descendants would be to sharply limit the number of them. (Quote by - Olin Miller)

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

The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee; A clover, anytime, to him Is aristocracy. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)

There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension. (Quote by - Paul Getty)

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children. (Quote by - Sam Levenson)

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

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. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man. (Quote by - Lord Northcliffe)

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)

Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. (Quote by - Russian proverb)

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

It runs in the blood like wooden legs. (Quote by - Cheshire Saying)

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

Noble fathers have noble children. (Quote by - Euripides)

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. (Quote by - Steven Cojocaru)

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