Lung Quotes

Lord, confound this surly sister, Blight her brow with blotch and blister, Cramp her larynx, lung and liver, In her guts a galling give her. (John Millington Synge)
If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica. View quote
Danny Glover
I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer. On being a high-profile social smoker. View quote
Kate Moss
You don't have free will when you have lung cancer. View quote
Bill O'Reilly
We're all one thing, like cells in a body. 'Cept we can't see the body. The way fish can't see the ocean. And so we envy each other. Hurt each other. Hate each other. How silly is that? A heart cell hating a lung cell. View quote
Charlie Kaufman
I am the only 'celebrity' to be public about my lung cancer. View quote
Kathryn Joosten
If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks the fuck to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung. If you think you need stuff to play music or sing, you're crazy. It can fix you so you can't play nothing or sing nothing. View quote
Billie Holiday
It's true feathers and scales are both made of keratin, same building block, that's true. But that's where the similarity stops, okay? Actually, birds and reptiles have different lung systems. And they have different reproductive systems, different body coverings, different brains, and different circulatory systems. Thousands of differences exist between dinosaurs and birds. That could be a whole seminar by itself. View quote
Kent Hovind
I always used to say to myself, I'm going to die of lung cancer. That's the choice I'm making. View quote
Clive Owen
I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hip fracture, three different kinds of lung cancer, pneumonia, blood poisoning, and so on. (Khaled Hosseini)
Flute is an instrument which gives you more power as you play. It's like the breathing exercises in yoga. I'm able to increase my lung power by playing more. But because of travelling I don't get time to practice. View quote
Hariprasad Chaurasia
Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer! If anybody is getting a cancerous activity in the lung, the probabilities are that it's radiation dosage coupled with the fact that he smokes. And what it does is start to run out the radiation dosage, don't you see. View quote
L. Ron Hubbard
I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer. View quote
Loni Anderson
I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. View quote
Loni Anderson
The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another-it's every damn thing, all at once, all the time. You can't stop aging. Gene therapies and replacement organs and plastic surgery give it a good fight. But it catches up with you anyway. Get a new lung, and your heart blows a valve. Get a new heart, and your liver swells up to the size of an inflatable kiddie pool. Change out your liver, a stroke gives you a whack. That's aging's trump card; they still can't replace brains. View quote
John Scalzi
Valentines card idea: "You are my iron lung. Let me come inside you and breathe heavily." View quote
Ben Croshaw
Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
Dad was diagnosed with lung cancer when I was a lad. From then on, he lived in fear that death was just around the corner, and he set about programming me to work hard and bring in some cash. View quote
Marco Pierre White
In my state of spiritual abstraction, I no longer belong to myself and to my eyesight. I am nothing more than a single narrow gasping lung, floating over the mists and summits. View quote
Reinhold Messner
I'm functioning on a lung and a half, but I have proved that it's possible to challenge yourself. (Stefanie Powers)
Knowledge and imagination are the life buoy and the extra lung for breathing outside the walls of a tainted reality. View quote
Hassan Blasim
I know patients who bring a dozen roses to the doctor's office. And, boy, the next visit, nobody forgets that. You come in and hey - 'Here's the lady who brought the roses' vs. 'Here's the lung cancer.' View quote
Bernie Siegel
About a quarter of lung cancer cases occur in people who have never smoked. One cause may be another potential carcinogen: fumes from frying. View quote
Michael Greger
My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, What can I do? View quote
Andrew Lo