Quotes About Inheritance

The wrong-doing of one generation lives into the successive ones.

Some maladies are rich and precious, and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold.

The weaknesses and defects, the bad passions, the mean tendencies, and the moral diseases which lead to crime are handed down from one generation to another, by a far surer process of transmission than human law has been able to establish in respect to the riches and honors which it seeks to entail upon posterity.

there is no one thing which men so rarely do, whatever the provocation or inducement, as to bequeath patrimonial property away from their own blood.

the wrong-doing of one generation lives into the successive ones, and, divesting itself of every temporary advantage, becomes a pure and uncontrollable mischief;

la actuación de la generación pasada es el germen que puede y debe dar un fruto bueno o malo en un tiempo muy distante; que, junto con la semilla de la cosecha meramente temporal -coveniencia, según los mortales-, se siembran de forma inevitable las simientes de una cosecha más perdurable, que puede ensombrecer su posteridad.

You might think your own personal apple has fallen far from the tree, but that tree has roots you don't see until you trip over them.

The first thing I remember my grandmother saying was, "I will bury all of you!

Curtis was just a chip off old Franky only she had much better legs. Poor Franky didn't have any legs but he had a wonderful brain. In some other country he would have made

I felt that even the sun belonged to my father, that I had no right to it because it was shining upon my father's house. I was like his roses, something that belonged to him and not to me.

You can't blame them for being rich," Jimmy said. "No, I blame their fucking parents." "And their grandparents," said Jimmy. "Yes, I'd be happy to take their new cars and their pretty girlfriends and I wouldn't give a fuck about anything like social justice." "Yeah," said Jimmy. "I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.

As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected. From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form.

I do not believe, as we shall presently see, that all our dogs have descended from any one wild species; but, in the case of some other domestic races, there is presumptive, or even strong, evidence in favour of this view.

Two distinct elements are included under the term inheritance— the transmission, and the development of characters;

la variabilidad se relaciona generalmente con las condiciones de vida a las que cada especie ha estado expuesta durante varias generaciones sucesivas.

more commonly but not exclusively to the like sex. It is a fact of some importance to us, that peculiarities appearing in the males of our domestic breeds are often transmitted, either exclusively or in a much greater degree, to the males alone. A much more important rule, which I think may be trusted, is that, at whatever period of life a peculiarity

Natural selection acts only by the preservation and accumulation of small inherited modifications, each profitable to the preserved being; and as modern geology has almost banished such views as the excavation of a great valley by a single diluvial wave, so will natural selection banish the belief of the continued creation of new organic beings, or of any great and sudden modification in their structure.

puede llegar a deducir que las especies no han sido creadas independientemente, sino que han descendido como variedades de otras especies.

unusual degree. This family became divided eight generations

On peut démontrer ainsi ni la stérilité ni la fécondité ne fournissent aucune distinction certaines entre les espèces et les variétés.

Après douze générations, la proportion du sang, pour employer une expression vulgaire, n'est que de 1 sur 2 048; et pourtant, comme nous le voyons, on croit généralement que cette proportion infiniment petite de sang étranger suffit à déterminer une tendance au retour [ de ces caractères perdus. ]

Enfin, tous les naturalistes pourraient citer des cas innombrables d'espèces restant absolument les mêmes, c'est-à-dire qui ne varient en aucune façon, bien qu'elles vivent sous les climats les plus divers. Ces considérations me poussent à attribuer très peu de poids à l'action directe des conditions de vie.

species of the same genus would occasionally exhibit reversions to lost ancestral characters.

The laws governing inheritance are for the most part unknown.