Polio Quotes

My father was a polio survivor.

— Andy Kim

I've crippled more people than polio.

— The Undertaker

My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.

— David Alan Grier

Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed: It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.

— Jonas Salk

The work on [polio] prevention was long delayed by... misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys

— Albert Sabin

In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still.

— Ziggy Marley

If you give us a safe vaccine, we'll use it. It shouldn't be polio versus autism.

— Jenny McCarthy

I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.

— Bill Gates

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

— Bill Gates

“Nature: that lovely lady to whom we owe polio, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer. ”

— Stanley Norman Cohen

We're all responsible for creating a polio-free world while we still can.

— Bill Gates

I went to several different grade schools all over the West Coast. I got polio when I was 8 and spent eight…

— Dennis Washington

It's extremely hard to get rid of any population. When they say polio is essentially wiped out, it's not. If we let…

— Greg Graffin

There are very few issues that lie specifically in one region now. Polio in Syria doesn't affect Syria alone. I don't think…

— Cate Blanchett

I was a shy ugly kid who led a big fantasy life. I thought I was an angel sent from heaven, to…

— Cher

I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her…

— Uzo Aduba

I had a series of childhood illnesses... scarlet fever… pneumonia… Polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years…

— Wilma Rudolph

Why is it that when we had rotary phones, when we were having folks being crippled by polio, that we were teaching…

— Geoffrey Canada

Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make…

— Naveen Jain

My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a…

— Uzo Aduba

India just went 3 years with no cases [of polio]. Pakistan is our toughest location right now because some parts of the…

— Bill Gates

I think disease and all the things that we treat are tied to national security in a lot of ways that we…

— Laura Bush

Sport can be used for messaging, for example, making the connections between shin guards or a helmet that protects you, and protection…

— Carol Bellamy

That is why we have the polio vaccine. People are blazing their own trial. That is what seems to be important. I…

— Henry Threadgill

I don't sing now, because I had polio when I was 15, bulbar polio. This was when the epidemic was happening. And…

— Charlie Haden

Having had polio never held me back as I got older. Although having one leg smaller than the other isn't much fun,…

— Donovan

I've seen people talk about how they stopped polio, that was a generation that came together and said, "Let's do this." I…

— Charlize Theron

Scientists can routinely predict a solar eclipse, to the minute, a millennium in advance. You can go to the witch doctor to…

— Carl Sagan

I am no saviour. I’m absolutely the last person on the planet who can practically help. I don’t know how to make…

— Tom Hiddleston

You are suffering from an ailment that affects ladies of romantic imaginations. Symptoms include fainting, weariness, loss of appetite, low spirits. While…

— Diane Setterfield

“We don't know what kills polio germs," Dr. Steinberg said. "We don't know who or what carries polio, and there's still some…

— Philip Roth

My two Jamaican cousins ... were studying engineering. 'That's where the money is,' Mom advised. ... I was to be an engineering…

— Colin Powell

“They sat on fold-up beach chairs and were talking about polio. The older ones, like his grandmother, had lived through the city's…

— Philip Roth

I am more connected to the world of the imagination, but you don't have to have polio to do that.

— Ben Lewin

Without animal research, polio would still be claiming thousands of lives each year.

— Albert Sabin

A deranged person is supposed to have the strength of ten men. I have the strength of one small boy... with polio.

— Woody Allen

“If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. ... Choose science.”

— Carl Sagan

Fortunately, perhaps, I was completely ignorant of the orthodox theory of the disease polio-myelitis.

— Elizabeth Kenny

Fear is the polio of the soul which prevents our walking by faith.

— Clarence Jordan

When you inoculate children with a polio vaccine, you don't sleep well for two or three months.

— Jonas Salk