Quotes About Mental Retardation

#1. At this point, scientists have identified over 300 specific genes that play a direct role in mental retardation. That link between genes and intelligence is pretty clear. However, scientists have not found a gene for A-level math ability or a gene for having a "natural ear for languages.

Hunter Maats

#2. I will tell you that I had a mother last night come up to me here in Tampa, Florida, after the debate. She told me that her little daughter took that vaccine, that injection, and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter.

Michele Bachmann

#3. If the definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over and expecting different results, then passion is a form of mental retardation- deliberately blunting our most critical cognitive functions.
- Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

Ryan Holiday

#4. Our lesson for today, boys and girls, is the more things change, the more things change. Whoever said the more things change the more things stay the same was obviously suffering severe mental retardation.

Stephen King

#5. When a mentally retarded child is born, the religious question we often ask is, "Why does God let this happen?" The better question to pose is to ask, "What kind of community should we be so that mental retardation isn't a barrier to the enjoyment of one's full humanity?"

Harold S. Kushner

#6. One out of every six American women has so much mercury in her womb that her children are at risk for a grim inventory of diseases, including autism, blindness, mental retardation and heart, liver and kidney disease.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

#7. You are not anyone or anything in particular. You are awareness itself. You don't have a particular form. You contain everything or you are contained by all things.

Frederick Lenz

#8. There is a possibility of fresh talent coming to work for the government. Millennials are the most public-spirited generation since the 1960s. There is an opportunity to harness that generation and make government service cool again.

Tim O'Reilly

#9. The country is not growing because the mental state of the people are retarded

Sunday Adelaja

#10. If you laugh at it, you can deal with it.

Joan Rivers

#11. Time is spent never bought.
Minutes count when seconds blur.
Memories are past that's caught.
Imaginings are future's lure."

Cass and Silver Rainbow-

Vaun Murphrey

#12. Don't launch it," said Bean into his microphone, head down. "Set it off inside your ship. God be with you.

Orson Scott Card

#13. Story!" The dwarf snorted. "You'll be talking about "happily ever after" next. Do we look happy? There's no happily ever after for us. Miserabily ever after, more like.

John Connolly

#14. If you can dream it and visualize it, they you can achieve it.

Debasish Mridha

#15. It is clearly the case that programs in Europe and the United States that have increased biofuel production have contributed to the added demand for food.

Robert Zoellick

#16. Sometimes are responses are entirely misdirected, misallocated and misapplied; in other words it's all reflex and nothing of reflection.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#17. Today President Obama is in the Middle East. He met the new king of Saudi Arabia. Obama also met Saudi Arabia's first lady, the second lady, third lady, and fourth lady.

Conan O'Brien

#18. Opportunity finds you when it's ready, not when you are.

Katie Delahanty

#19. Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a diamond dust took over which veiled and yet magnified all things

Laurie Lee

#20. Luc let out a strangled, hoarse laugh. Oh shit. ET so phoned home, kids.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#21. I like you like this. The way it should be. Safe in my arms.

Amanda Carlson