George Orwell Quotes

Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings.

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.

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

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.

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.

I believe that just as everyone inherits a particular form so does he inherit the particular characteristics and qualities of his progenitors, and to make this admission is to conserve one's energy.

Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.

Heredity is nothing but stored environment.

It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small.

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

All of our health is basically genetics.

How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or mother's life?

Virtue is not hereditary.

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Genes are natural resources.

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

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

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

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.

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

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

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 get my light eyes from my mother.