Geraldine Brooks Quotes

I was a bit of a sickly child!

I've always enjoyed poor health.

I had this almost Dickensian look. I was quite fragile.

During my childhood, I had a long, dangerous spell of illness, and my health has always been delicate.

The consequences of poor nutrition and a lack of exercise are serious.

I had TB as a boy. They said my skeletal frame never developed properly.

As a young child, I suffered all sorts of digestive problems and was constantly under the weather.

I had whooping cough when I was very young, which left me with bronchial problems, and I would always pick up colds. I was very thin and nervous so my father and mother took me out of school and had me tutored at home.

As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.

I was a sickly child, not very strong physically. I wasn't really the greatest in school. I didn't really excel in anything particularly. But I was happy with who I was.

When I was ten, I caught glandular fever and had to have a year off school. My parents arranged for a tutor to keep me on track with my studies.

John Kennedy had so many different medical problems that began when he was a boy. He started out with intestinal problems... spastic colitis.

Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts.

I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that I would not make it.

Sometimes I feel my arm is like a swan's neck - so weak.

I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.

Illness played a great - and unwelcome - role in my early life. Mumps were soon followed by a raging sore throat, and it was decided that I should have my tonsils removed and adenoids scraped at the same time.

I just get sick very easily.

I had quite a healthy childhood in the countryside, but I did have double pneumonia aged eight, and was one of the first patients to be given antibiotics.

I'm as strong and supple as a pane of thin glass. I've got too many ailments - left shoulder, left elbow and left wrist - in fact, the whole of the left arm.

My father brought me my first stack of comics, when I was seven years old and in the hospital. I was not a well child. And that's where my love for comics began.

You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.

I'm ripe for the picking for the Scientologists - one of those creeps. Someone's got to find me. Some little weird cult can just pluck me up, because I'm ripe for the picking.

What a frail, easily hurt, rather pathetic thing a human body is, naked; somehow a little unfinished, incomplete!

Achilles only had an Achilles heel, I have an entire Achilles body.