Jodi Picoult Quotes

Long before genetics became a flourishing field, Christians have spoken about sin as an inherited condition.

I have great genes. Thank you to my mom and dad for that one.

My mother was a lupus patient. I was a child with the lupus gene.

I was born with this. It's a hereditary genetic condition. This is something you can go your whole life without really knowing that something's wrong. I had high blood pressure, and that was the first sign.

You can improve your education and even change your environment but what you really ARE was all settled when your parents www born. SELECTED PARENTS WILL HAVE BETTER CHILDREN.

My heart is heavy, she thought. It’s not just a saying. It is what is—heavy, a great stone lodged in my breast, pressing down my whole being. How can I even stand straight and look out upon the world? I am doubled over into myself and, for all the weight, find only emptiness.

What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show.

A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue.

A heart's a heavy burden.

I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit.

I've got more freckles than just about anybody. My children didn't get them, thankfully. They have tiny little freckles.

I think the shape of our bodies has as much to do with the shape of our parents as it does with training.

If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully.

I have good genes in my family, so we'll see just how long I'll be around.

You draw the best things from your parents and family. You're going to pick up some of the bad things as well - there's a temper that runs through my dad's side of the family that I'm not especially keen on picking up a giant block of.

Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

I'm lucky. I've got pretty good genes.

When I was younger, I had terrible skin... my mother has terrible skin. Male-pattern hair loss is starting to come in... my dad is bald. It's so unfair; my brother's tall, has perfect skin, great hair, but I'm like the runt.

It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small.

Is there something in my genetic makeup that makes me more at risk for heart disease? I believe there is. My father was the sign.

I'm really, really lucky. I was given my dad's good genes.

From deformed parents, deformed offspring come to be.

I come with bad genetics, personally.

I know I've got a lot of my mother in me.