J. B. Pritzker Quotes

I have great genes. Thank you to my mom and dad for that one.

If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully.

I'm lucky. I've got pretty good genes.

I'm really, really lucky. I was given my dad's good genes.

The truth is that genetics has robbed me of hair. But it's not interesting to blame genetics.

I think the shape of our bodies has as much to do with the shape of our parents as it does with training.

One of the things about genetics that has become clearer as we've done genomes - as we've worked our way through the evolutionary tree, including humans - is that we're probably much more genetic animals than we want to confess we are.

I have good genes in my family, so we'll see just how long I'll be around.

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

You can improve your education and even change your environment but what you really ARE was all settled when your parents www born. SELECTED PARENTS WILL HAVE BETTER CHILDREN.

The nice thing about genetics is, I can see my kids doing what I used to do, which is inhaling books like breathing.

I've got some genetic gifts.

I hate to be fatalistic about it, but alcoholism, it's just in your genes. We had some of it in my family, and it just got me.

Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care.

I have all these great genes, but they're recessive. That's the problem here.

You can inherit male-pattern baldness from your mother's father, but not a tendency to fight in the First World War.

Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.

Heritability pertains to the entirety of the genome, not to a single gene.

My grandfather, Harry, died when my dad was in his early 20s, so I never met him. Amazingly, he was 6ft tall. That gene definitely never filtered down to me!

Somehow I have managed to delay looking old. In reality I have good genes.

Some genetic variants can be informative about one's risk for Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.

If someone's liver doesn't work, we blame it on the genes; if someone's brain doesn't work properly, we blame the school. It's actually more humane to think of the condition as genetic. For instance, you don't want to say that someone is born unpleasant, but sometimes that might be true.

From deformed parents, deformed offspring come to be.

We all grow up with inherited genes and inherited sensibilities, and they run very, very deep.

In the very traits of his temperament, which have a considerable effect on his life of soul, a person bears within him qualities and impulses that have an obvious connection with those of his physical ancestors.