A man's rootage is more important than his leafage. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)

Heredity deals the cards; environment plays the hand. (Quote by - Charles L. Brewer)

I am the beneficiary of a lucky break in the genetic sweepstakes. (Quote by - Isaac Asimov)

A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. (Quote by - Matthew)

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

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. (Quote by - Plutarch)

Every man is the son of his own works. (Quote by - Cervantes)

Heredity is nothing but stored environment. (Quote by - Luther Burbank)

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. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone. (Quote by - John Ciardi)

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us. (Quote by - Harry Emerson Fosdick)

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