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Quotes About Inherited

Like the instincts, the collective thought patterns of the human mind are innate and inherited. They function, when the occasion arises, in more or less the same way in all of us.
~ C.G. Jung
I felt confident that his inherited knowledge and instincts would soon assert themselves, given the chance, and in spite of his [lion] breeding. I must admit that I did not feel the same confidence about his two owners, when I heard they would accompany Christian [lion] and stay a few weeks at my camp. I was lead to believe they were very 'mod' with long hair and exotic clothing.
~ George Adamson
The biggest lesson to me is that I got the music from somewhere else - the notes, the music my parents listened to, and the stuff I listened to at every age. All of that inspired the music that I made.
~ Too Short
A dead man sits on all our judgment seats; and living judges do but search out and repeat his decisions. We read in dead men's books! We laugh a dead men's jokes, and cry at dead men's pathos!
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
I have never gone for a diagnosis and I don't consider myself to be bipolar, but I have extreme moods. I get heightened. I get very overexcited. But I do get very low, too... I don't know whether it's inherited or learned.
~ Caroline Quentin
So what have Keynes's 'madmen in authority' done with the ideas they inherited from defunct economists? They have set about dismantling the properly economic powers and initiatives of the state.
~ Tony Judt
I've known the taste of fear from birth. It was in my mother's milk.
~ Kiana Davenport
The very word virus began as a contradiction. We inherited the word from the Roman Empire, where it meant, at once, the venom of a snake or the semen of a man. Creation and destruction in one word.
~ Carl Zimmer
We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance on in our steads.
~ George R.R. Martin
Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what he owed to others.
~ Charlotte Cushman
Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'
~ Albert Schweitzer
Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother were both musicians and so I'm a musician. It was just natural that I should be a musician 'cause I was born into the family.
~ Sam Rivers
GlobalFoundries, as this new company that inherited AMD's fabs was known, entered
~ Chris Miller
For some crime committed by my ancestors in the dark and forgotten days, I came into the world already tarred and feathered. With shyness. It hurts terribly -- every bit as much as hot tar choking every pore -- and I wish I could be rid of it. But it hurts a lot less than having someone try and peel the shyness off. That's like being flayed alive.
~ Geraldine McCaughrean
One can envisage taking cells from a patient with sickle-cell anaemia or an inherited blood disorder and using the Cas9 system to fix the underlying genetic cause of the disease by putting those cells back into the patient and allowing them to make copies of themselves to support the patient's blood.
~ Jennifer Doudna
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
This is the first generation to grow up on Thatcher - it's a different ethos. It's money minded, and it's the cult of yourself. Now that's fine, except when it falls down, and you can't achieve your goals - through high unemployment, through the fact that you probably need inherited money to get anywhere.
~ Jane Campion
Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.
~ Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
On the sets, I used to scare people. I team up with my level of people and sometimes do spooky things. I've inherited this from my mother, as she used to scare my neighbours by dressing up like a ghost.
~ Manisha Koirala
Personality in man is what is "not his own" . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.
~ G. I. Gurdjieff
The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.
~ William Ralph Inge
a being as dependent on his cultural inheritance as man cannot escape convention so easily: and the desire to do so has itself become a cliché.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
SIN is that tendency or disposition to sin that we inherit from Adam. SINS are the specific acts of sin that we commit as the result of our tendency to sin.
~ Clarence Larkin