Parenting Quote by Libby Schmais

“My mother didn’t believe in germs but I did. Germs are something they made up to distract people from what they should really be…

— Joyce Maynard

“Colds and babies were both caused by germs which loved nothing so much as a mucous membrane.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.

— Jill Lepore

“She was like a disease that came along every few years, contaminating everyone in her path.”

— Tarryn Fisher

“From her experience working with the weak and the sick, she'd learned that the disease you ignore is the one that kills you, so…

— Edwidge Danticat

I believe my mother's immune system was harmed because of all the vaccinations she needed to visit different countries, when her body was already…

— Sean Hepburn Ferrer

“i was becoming a sack of vomit and fecal matter. i suppose, on reflection, that that is what i had always been, but nature…

— hf saint

If the ‘germ theory of disease’ were correct, there’d be no one living to believe it.

— B. J. Palmer

“It's really a very simple arrangement, little mother. He fully understands that either they get healthy, or he gets sick. That sort of encourages…

— David Eddings

“about vaccinating for a virus that may or may not protect against whatever strain came through didn’t sit well with me. We had enough…

— Jamie McGuire

It is time to lay to rest the notion that germs jump into people and cause diseases.

— E. Cheraskin

“I felt like a germ that had landed, like the first penicillin microbe, not only in a culture where it was totally at home,…

— John Fowles