Quotes About Physical Characteristics

#1. We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance ... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.

Joan D. Vinge

#2. We must distinguish between genes that cause physical characteristics, like the color of your eyes or hair, over which you have no control, and what we could call 'behavioral dispositions'. We are responsible for our behavior, no matter what those dispositions are.

Erwin W. Lutzer

#3. to understand a people, you need to wade into their culture. It's culture that tells their tale. And music is culture.

Daniel Suarez

#4. At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

Mason Cooley

#5. I know I am judged unfairly by my physical characteristics and ostracized because of that so I say, "Yes, I'm a black man."

Chuck D

#6. I think you can do a lot, like describing people with their physical characteristics, things like that, but to me, I've always found it to be a much more informative question to ask somebody what they read.

Gabrielle Zevin

#7. The level of potential physical productivity of a society depends on both the development of the intellect of its members, and a minimal standard of both demographic characteristics and of consumption.

Robert Trout

#8. In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. There are physical characteristics which are inherited. These include things like good looks, high intelligence, physical coordination. These attributes contribute to success in life, and success in life is a determinant of optimism.

Martin Seligman

#10. Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.

Christopher Hitchens

#11. I always liked the defensive part of baseball.

Pete Rose

#12. Genetics help to some degree, but the most important thing is the mind and the spirit. These two are even more powerful than physical characteristics that are passed on.

Serge Nubret

#13. Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date? Of course they're out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.

Alan Bennett

#14. Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.

Willard Scott

#15. Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique to language. Coming together they make language possible. But the fundamental building block of language is community.

Daniel Everett

#16. Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.

Tom Robbins

#17. Don't you think, that there are very few men who know, without raising their voice or changing their tone, to say ... what has to be said?

Colette

#18. surfing, writing, composing, and programming deep into the night, like it's the early 1980s with the hue of poison-green CRT illuminating the room, Nike running shoes on the floor, hair metal poster on the door, and everything is infinite, made of fibre optics and floppy disks . . .

Mike Walker

#19. God loves you as do I and no matter what physical characteristics that differ from each and every one of us, we are but one family under the heavens.

Eric Anthony

#20. Housekeepers, homemakers, wives, and mothers are fundamental social relations, which rest upon woman's characteristics, physical, mental, and moral.

R. Heber Newton

#21. The caste system, in all its various forms, is always based on identifiable physical characteristics - sex, color, age.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

#22. I was thinking that women should put pictures of missing husbands on beer cans.

Steven Wright

#23. I do not think that any realism is beautiful.

H.P. Lovecraft

#24. I get typecast as doctors, principals, middle-management-type guys - which, when you look at me, you realize is completely against my physical characteristics. I should be an action hero. So I don't understand what's going on.

Brian Huskey

#25. Also, I need some duct tape, a shovel, and Brandon's phone number...

Shane Miller

#26. Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.

Orlando Bloom

#27. I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.

Barbara Kruger

#28. Racism is taught in our society ... it is not automatic.
It is learned behavior toward persons with
dissimilar physical characteristics.

Alex Haley

#29. Gathered together in this fashion, Jerry could see that the Whitstables possessed certain common physical characteristics, including wayward teeth, large earlobes, and the sort of stress-related blotchiness usually found in cornered jellyfish.

Christopher Fowler

#30. Every country should realize that its turn at world domination, domination because its rights coincided more or less with the character or progress of the epoch, must terminate with the change brought about by this progress.

Juan Ramon Jimenez

#31. What we think of as 'Physical beauty' is almost certainly a tag for a complex of useful survival characteristics. Smartness intelligence among them.

Robert A. Heinlein

#32. Now that you've got me right down to it, the only thing I didn't like about The Barrets of Wimplole Street was the play.

Dorothy Parker

#33. The varying physical characteristics of the actors may also necessitate changes. Sean Connery is six feet four. Dustin Hoffman isn't.

Sidney Lumet

#34. The physical characteristics of the child Jesus will always remain a point of discussion. No artist has ever produced a type, nor ever will, that has in it all that the varying minds of all time will acknowledge as complete.

Henry Ossawa Tanner

#35. While there have been great technological advances in the study of the brain, yielding enormous amounts of data on its physical and psychological characteristics, the old problem of relating mind to brain in a reasonable fashion remains unaccomplished.

Michael Gazzaniga

#36. Even kings but play; and when their part is done, some other, worse or better, mounts the throne.

John Dryden

#37. With full responsibility for my words as a professional biologist, I do not hesitate to say that all existing and genuine knowledge about the way in which the physical characteristics of human communities are related to their cultural capabilities can be written on the back of a postage stamp.

Lancelot Hogben