Quotes About Twins

It turns out that inheritance has surprisingly little influence on longevity. James Vaupel, of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, in Rostock, Germany, notes that only 3 percent of how long you'll live, compared with the average, is explained by your parents' longevity; by contrast, up to 90 percent of how tall you are is explained by your parents' height. Even genetically identical twins vary widely in life span: the typical gap is more than fifteen years.

one of the twins went for a long trip in a spaceship at nearly the speed of light. When he returned, he would be much younger than the one who stayed on earth. This is known as the twins paradox, but it is a paradox only if one has the idea of absolute time at the back of one's mind. In the theory of relativity there is no unique absolute time, but instead each individual has his own personal measure of time that depends on where he is and how he is moving.

Back in the main corridor—what Luke now understood to be the residents' wing—the little girls, Gerda and Greta, were standing and watching with wide, frightened eyes. They were holding hands and clutching dolls as identical as they were. They reminded Luke of twins in some old horror movie.

They reminded Luke of twins in some old horror movie.

When, with growing self-awareness, he experiences his relation to an opponent, and the sacrificed realizes his identity with the sacrificiant, and vice versa, the hitherto cosmic opposition of light and darkness is experienced as an opposition between human or divine twins, and the long succession of fraternal feuds in mythology opens with the squabbles between Osiris and Set, Baal and Mot.7

Because they're twins. they've got each other, wolf. This is a tough town in a tough world. But no matter how tough it get - our boys will always have each other.

We were born in the '70s, back when twins were rare, a bit magical: cousins of the unicorn, siblings of the elves.

Men can become twins with age. The past was their common womb; the six months of rain and the six months of sun was the period of their common gestation. They needed only a few words and a few gestures to convey their meaning. They had graduated through the same fevers, they were moved by the same love and contempt.

Well, in the beginning Tom and I were running around in identical things until we were six or seven years old, I think. We were wearing the same clothes.

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.

I had twins, so it was really uncomfortable [to sleep], because you lay on one side, and there's a baby, and you lay on the other side and there's a baby. So I had a really hard time with it.

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.

When he straightened up again, there were six Harry Potters gasping and panting in front of him. Fred and George turned to each other and said together, "Wow -- we're identical!

What a cruel irony of fate, to pair together, like Siamese twins united by the shoulders, scientific adversaries of such contrasting character!

It outlines the fact that we are twins, we grew up together, but then we went to different colleges and went in separate directions.

I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four.

the twins too, they've never cared a hoot what they looked like. They spent so much time staring at each other's faces before they were born they can go the rest of their lives passing up mirrors without a glance.

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

Identical twins think and feel in such similar ways that they sometimes suspect they are linked by telepathy.

We're twins, and so we love each other more than other people.

Love and joy are twins or born of each other.

As they opened the door, Maia heard Mrs. Carter's voice raised loudly in the corridor. "Just remember this, Miss Minton: I shall always know. Always. " The twins looked at each other and giggled. "She's warning her not to remove her corset," they whispered. "Some of the other governesses tried to do it, but Mama can always tell!

Clovis had been listening to Finn with a very worried face. "But that's a sort of curse. Maia shouldn't live in a house that's been cursed." "I know. But nobody has cursed Maia--nobody in the world would do that. And Furo and the others have promised to look after her. They absolutely promised." "And you're not going to tell Maia?" "No. Definitely not. She's got enough to put up with with those awful twins.

Because we were twins, we clung to each other. Because we were sisters, we depended on each other. Because we were family, we did not let go.