Quotes & Sayings About Inherited Family Traits

You can't be disappointed unless you try something to be disappointed over. — Evelyn Keyes

What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt? — Giordano Bruno

The men in my life were wonderful, but they were very artistic and very creative and they were adventurers like myself. So it wasn't right to settle down with them. — James, Son Of Zebedee

A politician without money for advertising is out of luck. They are not taken seriously. — Robert Kane Pappas

A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists. — Ivan Turgenev

I didn't move. I've learned from years of experience that dogs and falcons and ladies come back to you if you stay where you are. — Tracy Chevalier

I find that writing is the silver lining of life, allowing me to transform vexing experiences into fresh story ideas...after much vexed venting. — Laura Quinn

Apparently, then, our lifelong nostalgia, our longing to be reunited with something in the universe from which we now feel cut off, to be on the inside of some door which we have always seen from the outside, is no mere neurotic fancy, but the truest index of our real situation. And to be at last summoned inside would be both glory and honour beyond all our merits and also the healing of that old ache. — C.S. Lewis

A lyrical, brave and complex novel that takes enormous risks and pulls them all off. — Peter Straub

The exact meaning of Jeremiah is not certain: it may mean "the LORD exalts"; it may mean "the LORD hurls." What is certain is that "the LORD," the personal name of God, is in his name. — Eugene H. Peterson

The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy - even beyond the market opportunities - that's something that appropriately ought to be done. — Bill Gates

After a certain age, and even if we develop in quite different ways, the more we become ourselves, the more our family traits are accentuated. — Marcel Proust

There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva — Josh Groban

I've got all of my enemies here in the Cabinet where I can keep an eye on them. — John Diefenbaker

Our relationship with Nature ... best way of forging this relationship ... be a pilgrim and not a tourist on Planet Earth — Satish Kumar

Most English speakers do not have the writer's short fuse about seeing or hearing their language brutalized. This is the main reason, I suspect, that English is becoming the world's universal tongue: English-speaking natives don't care how badly others speak English as long as they speak it. French, once considered likely to become the world's lingua franca, has lost popularity because those who are born speaking it reject this liberal attitude and become depressed, insulted or insufferable when their language is ill used. — Russell Baker