Birth Defect Quotes

My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.

Turns out, Down syndrome is the most common genetic disorder, occurring once in every 800 births, and no one really knows why it happens. It just does.

I was born with legs, but they were so deformed.

Patients would come in and say, Well, my baby is going to have a cleft palate. I'm going like, that's not a reason. And the doctor would do the abortion.

I was born with fairly serious scoliosis, and I did not walk at all until I was about two-and-a-half years old.

I'm sure it's not any wish of mine that I'm born with inclinations for better things. If I could be born again, and had the designing of myself, I'd be born the lowest and coarsest-minded person imaginable, so that I could find plenty of companionship, or I'd be born an idiot, which would be better still.

I guess I could Debra Winger in any number of things. She's so luminous - it's a birth defect.

There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate.

I was born with an evil face.

I was born with six fingers on each hand.

Why didn't Eternity have this deformed age aborted ? Its birthmark is the stamp of a newspaper, its medium is printer's ink, and in its veins flows ink.

When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.

Latin America was born with a birth defect: a highly unequal initial distribution of resources that dates back to the colonial era.

It is remarkable how surprising Zika has been. This is the first time we have had a mosquito-borne infection that can cause a devastating birth defect.

I was born with Spina bifida. That's where you have a hole in your spine, and your nerve endings come out.

The demon of pride was born with us; and it will not die one hour before us.

When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.

Glen had a disability more disfiguring than a burn and more terrifying than cancer. Glen had been born on the day after Christmas. "My parents just combine my birthday with Christmas, that's all," he explained. But we knew this was a lie. Glen's parents just wrapped a couple of his Christmas presents in birthday-themed wrapping paper, stuck some candles in a supermarket cake, and had a dinner of Christmas leftovers.

I think it was genetic: my legs were born like this.

The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty-the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.

I was born with a crippled leg. I wore a corrective shoes since I was three years old and I still wear them.

My early family life was incredibly happy but I was very, very protected and very much living in a bubble. I was born with my legs bent inwards and clawed feet.

I was born with two left feet.

I think my friends wife has been banging a black guy. Because they just had a baby. And the baby had a hole in it.