Birth Defects

Famous quotes containing the words birth and/or defects:

“No body can conceive that nature ever intended to throw away a Newton upon the occupations of a crown. It would have been a prodigality for which even the conduct of providence might have been arraigned, had he been by birth annexed to what was so far below him.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)