Quotes About Birth Defects

#1. Cousin-screwing. It is not totally safe. It raises the risk of birth defects slightly. But I was reading in a book for history that there's, like, a 99.9999 percent chance that at least one of your great-great-great-grandparents married first cousin.

John Green

#2. There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis.

Emily Oster

#3. Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.

Marian Wright Edelman

#4. It is the principle of sin, rebellion against God and His truth which has brought about birth defects and other destructive natural occurrences.

E.W. Jackson

#5. Taking pre-natal vitamins can minimise birth defects and can lower the chances both of morning sickness and premature delivery.

Heidi Murkoff

#6. I eliminated coffee and fish from my diet. The pesticides in coffee and fish, as well as the mercury in the latter, are considered possible contributors to birth defects in fetal tissue.

Constance Marie

#7. [F]olks would better off dipping their heads in a bucket of liquid [nitrogen] and battering them against a tree very very hard than reading Baxter's Titan. It would not surprise me if reading that book causes birth defects.

Stephen Baxter

#8. I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects.

Solomon Ortiz

#9. As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects.

Solomon Ortiz

#10. Many ills of the Christian life are due to handicapped beginnings. Too many people are preaching a warped or truncated gospel, and spiritual birth defects are the inevitable result.

J. Edwin Orr

#11. Meanwhile, the minute you put on the dotted line your Sam Hancock - and before a notary - you'll not only get the negative but Elsie makes a wonderful stuffed cabbage which we'll include gratis a few portions but return the jars please.

Woody Allen

#12. Order is manifestly maintained in the universe ... governed by the sovereign will of God.

James Prescott Joule

#13. Sometimes we miss happy because we're always looking for something else. We worry, we give in to fear, we compare ourselves to others, we're planning and plotting, but happiness is here, it's a choice, day to day.

Cathy Lamb

#14. I love rhinestones, faux jewelry.

Adriana Trigiani

#15. You have to be interested. If you're not interested, you can't be interesting.

Iris Apfel

#16. As long as one does not call his own position into question but regards it as absolute, while interpreting his opponents' ideas as a mere function of the social positions they occupy, the decisive step forward has not yet been taken.

Karl Mannheim

#17. When she was pregnant with her second child, a midwife asked if Catherine had any unspoken fears about anything that could go wrong with the baby - such as genetic defects or complications during the birth. My sister said, 'My only fear is that he might grow up to become a Republican.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#18. Tyrion felt a pang of rage. "You fucking son of a pox-ridden ass," he spat. "I hope you die of a bloody flux.

George R R Martin

#19. While it is true that without a vision the people perish, it is doubly true that without action the people and their vision perish as well.

Johnnetta B. Cole

#20. There is nothing better than hearing that there is a drug that will fix a terrible problem, unless you also hear that the drug is for treating schizophrenia (or possibly that it kills fairies every time you take it).

Jenny Lawson

#21. As an artist, I think you always have to take care of yourself as a person probably even more than the average person because your body is so important to your art.

Josh Young

#22. It's a challenge to work a character's arc into a format in which you only have a very limited amount of time to grow and develop a character.

Ginnifer Goodwin

#23. It is natural for us, as human beings, to look forward. Our eyes naturally look ahead. In this sense, we are made for moving toward a goal.

Daisaku Ikeda

#24. I had no plans to be a writer. My teenaged bid for stardom was to be a pop star ... which, ahem, didn't exactly work out.

Sophie Kinsella