Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

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

I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.

I don't know if acting is genetic. Maybe it's environmental.

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.

Genes don't mean necessarily that you have got a certain strand of gene that makes you particularly acceptable as a public official.

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

I mean you got to thank your parents for giving you the right genes.

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

However superficial prevailing views of heredity seem to be, it must be admitted that a person is indeed the bearer of inherited characteristics. This is the one aspect. He must often battle against these inherited traits and rid himself of them in order to bring to fulfillment the talents laid into him before he entered earthly existence.

I should thank my parents for my beauty. It's in my genes.

I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.

the breed is more than the pasture. As you know, the cuckoo lays her eggs in any bird's nest; it may be hatched among blackbirds or robins or thrushes, but it is always a cuckoo. ... a man cannot deliver himself from his ancestors.

Good heredity and environment are necessary. You cannot compare the child of a savage with the child of a civilized person.

What a wonderful thing it is that drop of seed, from which we are produced, bears in itself the impressions, not only of the bodily shape, but of the thoughts and inclinations of our fathers!

Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.

What is not hereditary cannot be permanent.

I was loaded with sheer ability, spelled i-n-h-e-r-i-t-a-n-c-e.

The egalitarian doctrine is manifestly contrary to all the facts established by biology and by history. Only fanatical partisans of this theory can contend that what distinguishes the genius from the dullard is entirely the effect of postnatal influences.

Genes are not destiny!

Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

Genius is independent of situation.

Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.

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

I have my father to thank for my build and height, and my mother to thank for my lips and eyes.