Tuberculosis Quotes
37 quotes by 35 authors
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We can safely make one prophecy: whatever the outcome of this war, the British Empire is at an end. It has been mortally wounded. The…
— Adolf Hitler
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The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling or being unwanted, uncared for, deserted by everybody. The greatest…
— Mother Teresa
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Srinivasa Ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to a bursting supernova,…
— Michio Kaku
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The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always…
— Leon Edel
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By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer, epilepsy, insanity, drunkenness…
— Margaret Sanger
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I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for…
— Ann Patchett
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New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has…
— Daniel Kahikina Akaka
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Nature is that lovely lady to whom we owe polio, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer.
— Stanley Norman Cohen
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Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live.
— Edward R. Murrow
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Until the 19th century, the term 'to consume' was used mainly in its negative connotations of 'destruction' and 'waste'. Tuberculosis was known as 'consumption', that…
— Petr Skrabanek
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Reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis are particularly concerning.
— Phil Gingrey
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Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?
— Arnold Wesker
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Patients have been cured almost instantaneously of...lupus...,cancer ...,ulcers..., tuberculosis ...In a few seconds, at most a few hours, the symptoms disappear and the anatomic lesions…
— Alexis Carrel
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In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to…
— William Osler
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The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing meet with contempt,…
— Ezra Pound
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During the 1960s, one neighborhood in San Francisco had the lowest income, the highest unemployment rate, the highest proportion of families with incomes under four…
— James Q. Wilson
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I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind of frightening and…
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
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No one has developed active tuberculosis.
— Michael York
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This is a mighty wonder: in the discharge from the lungs alone, which is not particularly dangerous, the patients do not despair of themselves, even…
— Aretaeus of Cappadocia
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To prove that tuberculosis is caused by the invasion of bacilli, and that it is a parasitic disease primarily caused by the growth and multiplication…
— Robert Koch
Who Wrote These Tuberculosis Quotes
35 authors contributed a total of 37 Tuberculosis Quotes, led by these top contributors: