Top 33 Hereditary Quotes

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

One thing that’s likely: How you look as you age is hereditary. Some of my family members, for example, look younger than their real age. And people have mistaken me for 30, even 25.

The Honours List is accused of being too top heavy, rewarding those born with a silver spoon in their mouth – as if hereditary titles and accidents of birth are incompatible with democracy. But if you stop to think about it, what is more democratic than nature?

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

In Pakistan politics is hereditary.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I know that I put a lot into ‘Hereditary’, and I’m proud of what it is. Beyond the fact that the film takes its time and asks for a certain amount of patience from the audience – and I hope it rewards that patience by the end – I know that I’m something of an aesthete. I care about aesthetics, and I love filmmaking.

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.

Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

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.

Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying hereditary changes.

Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.

No person is more convinced than I am of the necessity of giving great splendour and energy to the great hereditary magistracy exercised by the king; but in a free country, there can only be citizens and public officers.

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.

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’ is unabashedly a horror film. In a lot of ways, it’s in dialogue with other horror films. But I do know that it was important for me that the film functioned first as a family drama. I know that I’m never affected by anything if I’m not invested in the people to whom the genre things are happening.

I don’t sleep much. I think it’s hereditary. My mom doesn’t sleep. My dad never slept. My naps are definitely when I get the most sleep. I’m a big napper – that’s when I get most of my sleep.

My favorite movies are movies from the ’70s, like ‘Midnight Cowboy’ and ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ and ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,’ and to me, ‘Hereditary’ seemed like it fit in with those movies, and it was just horrifying. It seemed like it took the things that I love about movies and really fleshed out characters.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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