Laura Donnelly Quotes

So no, it's not all in the genes, but what isn't in the genes isn't in the family environment either. It can't be explained in terms of the overall personalities or the child-rearing practices of parents.

I have two kids and they were by no means blank slates. One is exactly like me, one is exactly like my wife.

I think we're all a lot more like our parents than we want to admit.

You draw the best things from your parents and family. You're going to pick up some of the bad things as well - there's a temper that runs through my dad's side of the family that I'm not especially keen on picking up a giant block of.

I have always been like this. I take after my father. I'm just chill.

Like father like son, like mother like daughter!

I've inherited the worst of each parent. I have my father's hypochondria and lack of concentration. I have his amorality. I have everything bad that he had. Then I have my mother's surly, pill-like, complaining, whining attitude.

I have two little kids, and they both came out completely different, with their own personalities.

As everyone, you do end up becoming your mother, but also as you're acting, I find out you become every member of your family, bits come out without you really wanting them to come out.

I take after my mother more than my father in terms of personality. My mother's a worrier, and I'm a worrier. Both were very good with numbers and mathematics, so I kind of got that from both of them.

I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit.

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.

Day after day with them, I see more and more of my parents in me. I see where all my quirks come from. I see my future.

My daughter is full energy, like my wife and I, and strong-minded and has an opinion, like we do. And my boys, one's a bit more calm and chill, and the other is much more sensitive to things. You see this right away, when they're first born. One cried, one didn't, with the boys.

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

My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom's very silly, and that side of the family is very musical.

I've started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman.

We all end up at least somewhat like our parents, especially in the way we deal with our children.

My parents are very similar to me.

I know I've got a lot of my mother in me.

I've always kind of gotten my personality from my mom, and whether that's 'star quality' or whatever... a lot of her is in me.

I have five kids, and people can say 'nature versus nurture,' but it is nature! Nurture has so little to do with it. I have five kids, and there are five totally different people in my house.

I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

Characteristics cling to families.