Sinead Burke Quotes

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.

I have a condition that is included among the 200 or so classified as Dwarfism.

We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism.

My uncle is a hemophiliac, and my brother is one as well. I am a carrier, and it's a disease that my kids also deal with. It's something that has affected my family and I for so long, and I think it's actually what drove me to comedy as a means to cope during tough times.

For me, cleidocranial dysplasia was something that just spontaneously happened. Nobody in my family has it. It doesn't really hinder me at all. Obviously, I'm still able to do the things I love.

I don't suffer from SCD myself, but I do carry the gene. This means that if I married another person who carried the gene, there would be a danger our children would suffer from the disease.

I'm not going to play my violin, but with my dwarfism, I'm a bit of a mutant.

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

My eye? It's a genetic thing. My dad had it, and now I have it. You know, I just found out that it may be correctable a little bit, because it does impair my vision. When I look up, I lose sight in this eye. I think, maybe for other people, it informs the way they see me.

I unfortunately tested positive for Lynch Syndrome, so I have been checked at least annually and sometimes twice a year.

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

I am technically not a midget. I'm a dwarf, or a little person, but I consider myself a midget. I just don't care enough to, I'm not going to waste anger on the word midget.

Little people are rad.

and another claimed it was inherited through a parent who was a carrier of the defective gene. I had always assumed the latter was the case with Claire. After all, surely a child who grew out of grief would be born with a heavy heart.

My mother is part albino." Bella Swan

Some athletes aren't small, they're just short.

My mum came from an incredibly big family.

I often forget that I'm a little person. It's the physical environment and society that remind me.

I'm interested in little people. 'The little, great people' is how I would put it, because suffering expands people.

I get my light eyes from my mother.

My mom is probably the only person shorter than me that I'm scared of. Still to this day. She's, like, five-two, maybe.

I'm 5 feet tall, and that's on a good day.

Well, I'm a small guy.

When I was young, I knew that I would be a short girl, not very tall.

I have always had incredibly skinny legs. It's in my family.