Surgeons Quotes · Page 3

The same skills that I used as a welder, as a migrant farm worker, are similar skills that I'm using as a…

— Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

You [men] are our protectors, is not true; for if you were, who would there be to protect us from?

— Mary Edwards Walker

The surgeon knows all the parts of the brain but he does not know his patient's dreams.

— Richard Selzer

An osteopath is only a human engineer, who should understand all the laws governing his engine and thereby master disease.

— Andrew Taylor Still

How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.

— Camille Paglia

Dura est manus cirurgi, sed sanans. The hand of the surgeon is hard, but healing.

— Walter Map

Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer,…

— Wernher von Braun

A surgeon would never hesitate to amputate a rotting hand, no matter how faithfully it had served its owner in the past.

— Rick Riordan

My dad, who is a heart surgeon, works with many adult patients who did not take good care of their bodies in…

— Daphne Oz

the 'finely polished word' of Hans Fritzsche was as effective as the surgeon's knife in cutting through the putrefying tissue of lies…

— Hans Fritzsche

How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Consider surgeons and their work. It's unthinkable to put your hands in the warm blood of another human's gut. Even with rubber…

— Park Dietz

As 17th U.S. Surgeon General, I was privileged to serve as the nation's doctor. I focused much of my time on promoting…

— Richard Carmona

It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that if you stop or curtail stop-and-frisk, or if cops are reluctant to…

— Raymond Kelly

Every eye is an eye, when you're doing the surgery there that is just as important as if you were doing eye…

— Fred Hollows

Men grow when inspired by a high purpose, when contemplating vast horizons. The sacrifice of oneself is not very difficult for one…

— Alexis Carrel

Dealing with adversity is like preparing for surgery. By putting our faith in what the doctor has said, we believe we will…

— Charles Stanley

I was thinking recently, If the body really is the new dress, as some are saying - with women buying boobs, butts,…

— Alber Elbaz

DURING THE PAST TWO TO THREE DECADES, we have acquired substantial evidence that most chronic diseases in America can be partially attributed…

— T. Colin Campbell

I want to be the surgeon who cuts you open Who fixes all of life's mistakes I want to be the house…

— Conor Oberst

There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And…

— Al Pacino

Protection of the life of the mother as an excuse for an abortion is a smoke screen. In my 36 years of…

— C. Everett Koop

When I'm on the operating table, I'm happy for the surgeon to treat me as a machine, but the moment I return…

— George Pattison

I've had opportunities before to run for office - the Republicans recruited me when I was surgeon general, to run for Congress,…

— Richard Carmona

When the surgeon general Joycelyn Elders said that drugs should be legalized, I saw somebody else who felt what I feel. But…

— Snoop Dogg

Some wounds grow worse beneath the surgeon's hand; Better that they were not touched at all.

— Ovid

Men sometimes seem more ready to accept women as brain surgeons than as athletes.

— Janice Kaplan

Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.

— E. B. White

Brain surgeons earn 10 times that of a general practitioner... it pays to be an expert.

— Allan Pease

Editing might be a bloody trade. But knives aren't the exclusive property of butchers. Surgeons use them too.

— Blake Morrison

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

— Anonymous

You'll feel a tingling in your chest," says a surgeon. "It's nothing to worry about.

— Neal Shusterman

I can 100 percent tell you that I have not gone under the surgeon's knife or had a facelift.

— Shane Warne

Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people.

— Robert Winston

Having a highly trained obstetrical surgeon attend a normal birth is analogous to having a pediatric surgeon babysit a healthy 2-year-old.

— Marsden Wagner

A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.

— Abraham Verghese

Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.

— Paul Simon

We find we breathe again, and hear the surgeon hum. Outside, in the street, a car starts up. The heart regularly Thunders.

— James Kirkup

There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon,…

— Benjamin Carson

You don't... get it, boy... This isn't a mudhole... it's an operating table. And I'm the surgeon.

— Frank Miller