Quotes about Abnormalities

Aristotle

From deformed parents, deformed offspring come to be.

Though a great early science, he was ignorant of the many non-genetic factors that could cause deformities in children ranging from nutritional deficiency to improper delivery techniques. Even in the genetic area he had no inkling of mutations where deformities develop and have NOTHING to do with either parent’s genetic history. Last, he did not realize that a large proportion of all pregnancies abort before the mother even realizes that she was pregnant.

Jake Sullivan

You cannot normalize a President who is not normal.

There were many people who thought that much of Donald Trump's bizarre behavior was political theater to win the election and that if we were elected, he would shortly normalize his behavior and actions. However, he did not. Then many thought that some of his moore experienced key cabinet officials would normalized him, but they too failed.

Peter Greenaway

I share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal.

Darin Strauss

I suppose that, for most of us, the fascination of conjoined twins is that such people can serve as symbols.

Hilaire Belloc

Some say ... that a mixture of racial types produced in him a perpetual physical disturbance: his face was certainly distorted and ill-balanced

He was referring to the French Revolutionist, Joachim Murat, who was a mulatto. Note the incorrect bias at the time that a mixed race — human hybrid — was inferior and unnatural. See related quotes.

David Levithan

... I love books about freaks," because I am one. You might be, too. Let's be freaks together?

Leonard Nimoy

There are studies that tell us that stress and lack of self-image, lack of self-esteem, severe dieting, binge dieting and binge eating can also be very damaging to a body and bring on various kinds of abnormalities.

Pierre Salinger

The things that stand out are often the oddities.

Abnormalities Quotes