Disease Quote by Constance Baker Motley

I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.

— Dinah Sheridan

I've overcome tuberculosis and my life was at risk.

— Thiago Silva

I had tuberculosis in my mid-20s. I didn't have much work, was living in a damp London basement in a sleeping bag, and ate…

— Engelbert Humperdinck

I mean we grew up in a TB bus and I became a TB doctor.

— Paul Farmer

My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.

— Victor Borge

The fact that I was fortunate enough to escape contagion, in spite of frequent, sometimes daily contacts with the disease, was because I soon…

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

Early in my career, I was galvanized by a disease that ravaged my country and many others around the world: malaria.

— Tedros Adhanom

I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it, I did the thing in life I…

— Max Ehrmann

With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the…

— Susan Sontag

I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.

— Joshua Lederberg

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

— Mother Teresa

When my disease nearly destroyed me in 2009, my doctors thought I'd be lucky to regain 80 percent of my cognitive abilities. When I…

— Susannah Cahalan