Aimee Mullins Quotes

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.

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

I should thank my parents for my beauty. It's in my genes.

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

I would never use prosthetics. I don't like sticking things on. I don't really like wearing wigs, either.

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

But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo.

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.

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

I take the sporting genes from my dad.

The nice thing about genetics is, I can see my kids doing what I used to do, which is inhaling books like breathing.

All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.

Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care.

I believe that just as everyone inherits a particular form so does he inherit the particular characteristics and qualities of his progenitors, and to make this admission is to conserve one's energy.

We don't get to pick the genes we want. There's room in this world for beauty to be diverse.

it was all your genes that made us geniuses, mom. said peter. we sure didn't get any from dad. i heard that. father said, not looking up from the news that was being displayed on the table while he ate it would've been wasted if you hadn't

I'm not saying, "I don't condone plastic surgery." But if you do it, then do it well, make sure you come out looking like yourself. You're comfortable being put under a knife and being disemboweled? Great!

Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.

What a mystery blood was -- how did a tiny gesture, a tome of voice, endure through generations like the harder verities of flesh? He had seen it again and again, watching his nieces and nephews grow, and accepted without thought the ehoes of parent and grandparent that appeared for brief moments. the shadow of a face looking back through the years -- that vanished again into the face that was now.

You can inherit male-pattern baldness from your mother's father, but not a tendency to fight in the First World War.

The only parts left of my original body are my elbows.

My father's wit, and my mother's tongue, assist me!

Hereditary property sophisticates the mind, and the unfortunate victims to it ... swathed from their birth, seldom exert the locomotive faculty of body or mind; and, thus viewing every thing through one medium, and that a false one, they are unable to discern in what true merit and happiness consist.

my family, although it keeps its hair, turns gray early - a business asset but a social handicap.

What is not hereditary cannot be permanent.