Hereditary Trait Quotes

Perfect pitch is genetic. It's 100% genetic.

Rory is very established in England, which you are seeing right now with Bond. But his father Roy Kinnear was a very, very beloved comedy actor here in the UK. And Rory actually even looks a bit like his dad. And so it makes a lot of sense to me that Rory has such good comic chops because it's in his blood. He's very, very funny as Sean.

She is descended from a long line that her mother listened to.

I've got royal blood coursing through my veins and if the boxing bug is 'something I've inherited through the family bloodline, I'm proud of my genes.

But I was right. I think that must be an hereditary quality, for my father says he is scarcely ever wrong.

I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people.

The fundamental human truth underpinning 'Ox Mountain Death Song' is that men so very often turn into their fathers. The way that everything gets passed down.

We all have, in my family, what we call the 'Vorderman bottom' - a sticky out, bigger-than-normal, signature, of the rear variety. It's been a family joke all our lives - even my lovely brother has one. I know the lines to all the good singalong big bum songs.

I am a born hunter, like my father, my grandfather, and every man of my family before them.

My personal belief is that attraction to SF/F is coded right into your genes. I was attracted to monsters and robots as far back as I can remember.

Possessed, as are all the fair daughters of Eve, of an hereditary propensity, transmitted to them undiminished through succeeding generations, to be 'soonmoved withtheslightesttouch of blame'; very little precept and practice will confirm them in the habit, and instruct them all the maxims, of self-justification.

I come from a singing family and as is said, 'the apple does not fall far from the tree.'

Truth is, I have been scared of birds since I was a little girl. I think it's genetic because my mom shares this fear with me.

Funniness is genetic.

It's in my blood to perform.

Some people are born with a caul. I was born with a jacket.

We Robertses have too many teeth for our mouths.

I started in London, as a kid. My mother knew I had sort of an inbred talent. She was an actress, so I inherited it from her. But I think I got a lot of it from my grandfather, who was a great politician.

My love of singing is hereditary.

Both of my parents had me reading at a really young age. Maybe it was a hereditary thing, but my mom always had my nose in a book. I've always been a bookworm.

Hereditary sloth instructs me.

Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring of the noble.

I can't cook! It's genetic. My grandmother can't cook, my mother can't cook. I was raised to believe you eat because your body needs fuel for energy, so I eat super foods.

There is clearly this gene inside me or this thing inside me that I've always had in my blood. I don't know, but since very little I've always wanted to be in racing cars, and that was without knowing who my dad was and what he was doing for a living.