Quotes About Identical Twins

#1. With identical twins, you always get a little snidey one.

Karl Pilkington

#2. Anybody who objects to cloning on principle has to answer to all the identical twins in the world who might be insulted by the thought that there is something offensive about their very existence. Clones are simply identical twins.

Richard Dawkins

#3. Identical twins. I'm glad they're identical 'cause you save money on photographs. That's what I like. Yeah. Here's my little boy. I got another one just like it.

Ray Romano

#4. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred heartbeats an hour).

Vladimir Nabokov

#5. And here, out in the darkness, identical twins were stalking each other, one of them with murder on his mind.

Anthony Horowitz

#6. There are no identical twins, or forgivable sins.

Ozzy Osbourne

#7. Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways.

Edward Norton

#8. Last time I was in Canada Celine Dion had just given birth to identical twins. Which is quite an achievement given her age and face.

Jeff Ross

#9. In some domains it looks as though our identical twins reared apart are ... just as similar as identical twins reared together. Now that's an amazing finding and I can assure you none of us would have expected that degree of similarity.

Thomas J. Bouchard Jr.

#10. Clones, in fact, are just identical twins born at different times.

Steven Pinker

#11. My name is Abe Marcus. Ned and I are identical twins. We look exactly alike. Even Ma and Pa can't tell us apart. But we don't act alike. I am the serious twin. Maybe it's because I am two minutes older.

R.L. Stine

#12. Identical twins do not possess identical souls.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#13. The nurse pointed out that identical twins were already clones in a sense, and Mother Emmanuel suggested that the soul to worry about belonged to the person who would have himself cloned at great expense when so many unwanted children were going hungry.

Mark Salzman

#14. Look at identical twins. When you get closer, you start to see the small differences. It all depends on how much you magnify it.

Bryan Swanson

#15. You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.

Robert Breault

#16. Without identical twins, you'll never get to experience entering a hotel room with one of them and watching him run into the full-length mirror because he though he saw his brother.

Ray Romano

#17. Your brain develops depending on your individual history. What has gone on in your own brain and its consciousness over your lifetime is not repeatable, ever - not with identical twins, not even with conjoined twins.

Gerald Edelman

#18. Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.

Wally Lamb

#19. Sex and love are not identical twins. Not fraternal. Not born at the same moment but still of the same womb.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#20. Identical twins are ideal lab specimens for studying the difference between learned and inherited traits since they come from the womb preloaded with matching genetic operating systems. Any meaningful differences in their behaviors or personalities are thus likely to have been acquired, not innate.

Jeffrey Kluger

#21. I agree that you might clone some people who would look amazingly like their parental cell donors, but the odds are that they'd be almost as different as you or me, and certainly more different than any of today's identical twins.

Lewis Thomas

#22. Identical twins
are no different
from everyone else,
except we look and
sometimes sound
exactly alike.

Kwame Alexander

#23. Among identical twins who have the exact same genes, one may die early of a heart attack and the other may live a long, healthy life - depending on their lifestyle and what they eat.

Michael Greger

#24. Quinn, a little heads up next time would be awesome. You know, just a little text message saying, 'Oh, by the way, when you get home, there will be two way too hot for human kind identical freaking twins, living right next door.' Something like that, no big deal.

Kimberly Lauren

#25. Wow, we're identical!

J.K. Rowling

#26. Ironically my brother died in a car accident shortly after Airbag was recorded. He's not an identical twin so I didn't care.

Thom Yorke

#27. It would be both an identical work of art only by virtue of its difference. The same but different, he suggested, like twins.

Johnny Rich

#28. Conjoined twins are identical siblings who develop one placenta out of a single fertilised ovum. No cases of conjoined triplets or quadruplets have been documented.

Darin Strauss

#29. The special relationship between twins is that, if there's anyone else in the world that's going to get or be the confidant that you need, it's an identical twin.

Sam Underwood

#30. No matter how great the script, the actual film will only be a distant relative of it - it will never be an identical twin.

Peter Straughan

#31. Fred and George turned to each other and said together, 'Wow, we're identical!'
'I dunno though, I think I'm still better looking,' said Fred, examining his reflection in the kettle.

J.K. Rowling

#32. Being human makes us one. Being uniquely ourselves makes us individual. - Nancy S. Mure, Author of Unidentical Twins

Nancy S. Mure

#33. According to a recent study of the brains of identical and fraternal twins, differences in the amount of gray matter in the frontal lobes are not only genetically influenced but are significantly correlated with differences in intelligence.

Steven Pinker