Top 156 Hereditary Quotes & Sayings

The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.

There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

I think the whole under-eye-bag thing is hereditary, and I just got lucky.

Indeed, the hereditary gift of prophecy will go to the grave with me.

In the first part of 'Rights of Man' I have endeavoured to show...that there does not exist a right to establish hereditary government...because hereditary government always means a government yet to come, and the case always is, that the people who are to live afterwards, have always the same right to choose a government for themselves, as the people had who have lived before them.

An hereditary aristocracy... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world.

If I'm 'the kid from 'Hereditary'' for the rest of my life, I'll be satisfied.

I got my MFA from AFI as a director in 2010. I've had time to make the shorts that I made previous to 'Hereditary' and to kind of build these movies in my head.

It's a petty thing, but I wouldn't join the Scouts when I was a kid, 'cause you had to swear allegiance to the queen. I'm just not a royalist. I think it's idiotic, a hereditary principle.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

Nobility should be elective, not hereditary.

Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.

With 'Hereditary', I wanted to make a film about what bothers me about life.

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.

Red lipstick is my armour - I feel it distracts from my hereditary dark circles and gives me an instant psychological lift, no matter what my mood is.

History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what to do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.

Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.

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

I can say that I put a lot of personal feelings into 'Hereditary', though I can also say that none of the characters in the film are surrogates for anybody in my family or for myself.

Hereditary sloth instructs me.

In Pakistan politics is hereditary.

What is not hereditary cannot be permanent.

These, then, are the four kinds of royalty. First the monarchy of the heroic ages; this was exercised over voluntary subjects, but limited to certain functions; the king was a general and a judge, and had the control of religion The second is that of the barbarians, which is a hereditary despotic government in accordance with law. A third is the power of the so-called Aesynmete or Dictator; this is an elective tyranny. The fourth is the Lacedaemonian, which is in fact a generalship, hereditary and perpetual.

Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty of the people.

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.

One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion.

I am not a hereditary politician and do not have any substantial asset.

Money and titles may be hereditary," she would say, "but brains are not,".

The argument advanced by the supporters of the theory of hereditary transmission does not furnish a satisfactory explanation of the cause of the inequalities and diversities of the universe.

I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor.

We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.

I repeat for the umpteenth time, without making apologies: My children have had more than their fair share of presidency under their father. There cannot be any hereditary transfer of power.

The nucleic acids have considerable biological importance because of their role in cell growth and in the transmission of hereditary characters.

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

By God's grace, the only property my parents gave me was a good body. No BP, no sugar, no hereditary problems. Small build, tight skin.

Terrible as is war, it yet displays the spiritual grandeur of man daring to defy his mightiest hereditary enemy--death.

Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (eg, the Bach family); genius is not transmitted; it is never diffused, but is strictly individual.

Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more politicians.

Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.

'Hereditary' is unabashedly a horror film, whereas 'It Comes at Night' was a lot of things: it was a thriller; it was a postapocalyptic drama. It was a slow-building, very dark movie about relationships. 'Hereditary' is also about relationships, and I hope it functions as a vivid family drama, but it is also very much a horror film.

Virtue is not hereditary.

My love of singing is hereditary.

Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his hereditary skies.

Americans swept away the instruments of English hereditary inequality - entails and titles of nobility - even before we had a constitution.

The sin against blood and race is the hereditary sin in this world and it brings disaster on every nation that commits it.

I finally demonstrated that typhus infection is not hereditary in the louse.

Fertility is hereditary. If your parents didn't have any children, neither will you. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears, prejudices, misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.

Initially, I wanted to be a writer for other people. 'Hereditary,' I was writing it from a woman's perspective.

I have this thing called hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies. It's incredibly rare.

Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.

The idea of hereditary legislators is as inconsistent as that of hereditary judges, or hereditary juries; and as absurd as an hereditary mathematician, or an hereditary wise man; and as ridiculous as an hereditary poet-laureat.

Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness.

There are those who collect the refuse of the public streets, but in order to be received into the band it is necessary to have been born one of the Hereditary Confederacy of Superfluity Removers and Abandoned Oddment Gatherers.

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

We're children of God through our blood kinship with Christ. We're also sons and daughters of Adam and Eve, with a hereditary craving for forbidden fruit salad.