Characteristics Quote by Francis Galton Download Open image “Characteristics cling to families.” — Francis Galton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Characteristics Family Heredity
It's not necessarily what a family is typically supposed to look like. But it is what it is. It's about a connection and bond… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
Families have become models for public life, constructing friendships between individuals of different temperaments, ambitions and ages, even if they are often unsuccessful. People… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
Unhealthy families discourage individual expression. Everyone must conform to the thoughts and actions of the toxic parents. They promote fusion, a blurring of personal… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image
A clamor for 'family values' requires deliberate blindness to the abuses that occur within families. — Bob Allen Copy Share Image
“That families are better off the stronger and more stable they are is self-evidently important. But so is the notion that no family can… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There are so many ways a family can unravel. All it takes is a tiny slash of selfishness, a rip of greed, a puncture… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
My idea of family is not dominated by blood ties. Families are fragile things, and I think it is social pressure and emotional attachments… — Jeremy Hardy Copy Share Image
The cat is the only non-gregarious domestic animal. It is retained by its extra-ordinary adhesion to the comforts of the house in which it… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as it did… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it becomes his… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
A really intelligent nation might be held together by far stronger forces than are derived from the purely gregarious instincts. A nation need not… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
“Poor humanity! I often feel that the tableland of sanity upon which most of us dwell, is small in area, with unfenced precipices on… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
Exercising the right of occasional suppression and slight modification, it is truly absurd to see how plastic a limited number of observations become, in… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas. — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
Englishmen Francis Galton to describe the "science" of bettering human stock and the elimination of unwanted characteristics... and individuals. Galton proposed societal intervention for… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
[Statistics are] the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
The conditions that direct the order of . . . the living world . . . are marked by their persistence in improving the birthright of successive generations. — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
We greatly want a brief word to express the science of improving stock, which is by no means confined to questions of judicious mating,… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
One of the key characteristics of the comic book medium is that it is not brought to life by just one voice. — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics, not all… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
Sometimes, Ms. Lane," he said, "one must break with one's past to embrace one's future. It is never an easy thing to do. It… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Just because someone thinks they remember something in detail, with confidence and with emotion, does not mean that it actually happened, .. False memories… — Elizabeth Loftus Copy Share Image
Consequently, citizen legislators, rotating back to their communities after a short period of public service—considered an indispensable and routine characteristic and design of representative… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A second characteristic of the process which for me is the good life, is that it involves an increasingly tendency to live fully in… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
Philanthropy is one of the most hopeful characteristics of our time. — Mary Livermore Copy Share Image
God has given this way of life to Israel: to abstain from everything which is contrary to nature, that is to say, anger, fits… — Poemen Copy Share Image
The most significant moment will be when we stop referring to the hiring of qualified women (and racial, ethnic and religious minorities) as significant.… — Amy Trask Copy Share Image
Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image