Polio Quotes
45 Polio quotes by 37 unique authors
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My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.
— David Alan Grier
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Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's…
— Ezekiel Emanuel
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Polio has not been eradicated by vaccination, it is lurking behind a redefinition and new diagnostic names like viral or aseptic meningitis.......According to one of…
— Viera Scheibner
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Sport can be used for messaging, for example, making the connections between shin guards or a helmet that protects you, and protection in terms of…
— Carol Bellamy
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I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a…
— Francis Ford Coppola
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When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed…
— Francis Ford Coppola
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Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the…
— Naveen Jain
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If you give us a safe vaccine, we'll use it. It shouldn't be polio versus autism.
— Jenny McCarthy
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I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lost my coordination and 20…
— Jack Nicklaus
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A deranged person is supposed to have the strength of ten men. I have the strength of one small boy... with polio.
— Woody Allen
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Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History…
— Sarah Vowell
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You are suffering from an ailment that affects ladies of romantic imaginations. Symptoms include fainting, weariness, loss of appetite, low spirits. While on one level…
— Diane Setterfield
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Fear is the polio of the soul which prevents our walking by faith.
— Clarence Jordan
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Like anyone nostalgic for a time he didn't live through, I chose to weed out the little inconveniences: polio, say, or the thought of eating…
— David Sedaris
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There are cases where government-to-government aid actually has worked. Look at the eradication of smallpox and the near eradication of polio. But these are really…
— Jacqueline Novogratz
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I consider myself incredibly lucky to live and work in places like Canada and the U.S. where polio no longer threatens to rob the livelihoods…
— Ksenia Solo
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In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still.
— Ziggy Marley
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Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.
— Bill Gates
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When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a child. I got…
— Anthony Fauci
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I went to several different grade schools all over the West Coast. I got polio when I was 8 and spent eight months in the…
— Dennis Washington
Who Wrote These Polio Quotes
37 authors contributed a total of 45 Polio Quotes, led by these top contributors: