Top Hereditary Quotes
I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
James Whistler
We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.
Ezra Stiles
Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.
Edward Gibbon
Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.
Doris Day
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Walter Scott
All Hereditary Quotes
I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
James Whistler 
61% of people like this quote
We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.
Ezra Stiles 
59% of people like this quote
Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.
Edward Gibbon 
55% of people like this quote
Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.
Doris Day 
53% of people like this quote
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Walter Scott 
53% of people like this quote
There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
Paul Getty 
53% of people like this quote
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
Thomas Paine 
52% of people like this quote
I was born with this. It's a hereditary genetic condition. This is something you can go your whole life without really knowing that something's wrong. I had high blood pressure, and that was the first sign.
Steven Cojocaru 
51% of people like this quote

Edward Gibbon
Sam Levenson
Walter Scott
James Nasmyth
James Whistler
Ezra Stiles
Steven Cojocaru
Doris Day
Imran Khan