Heart Transplant Quotes

• It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it.

  Barry Switzer

  Heart, College, Nfl

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• For a dying man it is not a difficult decision [to agree to become the world's first heart transplant] ... because he knows he is at the end. If a lion chases you to the bank of a river filled with crocodiles, you will leap into the water convinced you have a chance to swim to the other side. But you would not accept such odds if there were no lion.

  Christiaan Barnard

  Heart, Men, Rivers

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• I am overjoyed that I do not need a heart transplant at this time.

  Lech Walesa

  Heart, Needs, Overjoyed

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• It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.

  Christiaan Barnard

  Heart, Worms, Transplants

  "Heart transplant pioneer dies". www.cnn.com. September 2, 2001.

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• An Israeli man's life was saved when he was given a Palestinian man's heart in a heart transplant operation. The guy is doing fine, but the bad news is, he can't stop throwing rocks at himself.

  Jay Leno

  Heart, Men, Rocks

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• The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.

  Adam Ant

  Heart, Brain, Transplants

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• The artificial heart is very effective as a bridge to transplant, but the number of people that can be saved with human hearts is limited. A perfect artificial heart could save many more patients.

  Robert Jarvik

  Heart, Bridges, Numbers

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• You only have to bat 1.000 in two things-flying and heart transplants. Everything else, you can go four in five.

  Beano Cook

  Heart, Two, Flying

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• In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus offers more than God's personal email or private cell number - He offers us a heart transplant.

  Mark Hart

  Jesus, Prayer, Heart

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• The Wright brothers' first flight was shorter than a Boeing 747's wing span. We've just begun with heart transplants.

  C. Walton Lillehei

  Brother, Heart, Wings

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• So much goes into doing a transplant operation. All the way from preparing the patient, to procuring the donor. It's like being an astronaut. The astronaut gets all the credit, he gets the trip to the moon, but he had nothing to do with the creation of the rocket, or navigating the ship. He's the privileged one who gets to drive to the moon. I feel that way in some of these more difficult operations, like the heart transplant.

  Denton Cooley

  Heart, Moon, Rockets

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. April 11, 1991.

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• I was scared that no one would hire me. At that time, there was still a stigma attached to it. A big stigma. Actually, I think I was healthier after the operation than some people who have bypass surgery because I was completely cured. But when you mentioned "heart transplant," you got a very negative reaction. It triggered people's imaginations, and not in a good way.

  Robert Altman

  Heart, Thinking, Imagination

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• The idea of a spiritual heart transplant is a vivid image to me; once you have the heart of somebody else inside you, then that heart is there. Jesus' heart is inside me, and my heart is gone. So if God were to place a stethoscope against my chest, he would hear the heart of Jesus Christ beating.

  Max Lucado

  Spiritual, Jesus, Heart

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• I had a 23 per cent blockage in my micro-arteries. At first the doctors thought I needed a heart transplant, then they said I have microvascular angina, which means I will be on medication for the rest of my life.

  Toni Braxton

  Mean, Heart, Doctors

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Here's the thing: If you're so far left you actually believe that somebody owes you a job, citizenship and a heart transplant, you're mentally ill. If you're so far right that you actually believe that somebody who doesn't have a job and is not a citizen deserves to have their heart cut out and sold on eBay, and you get to keep 80 percent of the profit - you're mentally ill.

  Christopher Titus

  Jobs, Believe, Heart

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A few years ago he had a big heart transplant in Chicago, a five-hour operation. It took the doctors four hours to get him on the operating table.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Heart, Doctors

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• Of the many 'firsts' with which I have been involved at the Texas Heart Institute —including the first successful human heart transplant in the United States and the first total artificial heart transplant in the world—the achievement that may have the greatest impact on health care did not occur in the operating room or in the research laboratory. It happened on a piece of paper... when we created the first-ever packaged pricing plan for cardiovascular surgical procedures.

  Denton Cooley

  Heart, Successful, Impact

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• The benefits of medical research are real - but so are the potential horrors of genetic engineering and embryo manipulation. We devise heart transplants, but do little for the 15 million who die annually of malnutrition and related diseases. Our cleverness has grown prodigiously - but not our wisdom.

  Martin Ryle

  Real, Heart, Engineering

  Letter to Professor Carlos Chagas, February 24, 1983.

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