Lungs Quotes

• I always loved running.... It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.

  Jesse Owens

  Running, Endurance, Track And Field

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• What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.

  Emil Brunner

  Life, Hope, Spiritual

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• The trees are our lungs, the rivers our circulation, the air our breath, and the earth our body.

  Deepak Chopra

  Air, Rivers, Tree

  Twitter post from Aug 2, 2009

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• Man cannot breathe with borrowed lungs.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Breathe, Mankind

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.

  David Hockney

  Laughing

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• There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.

  Robert Orben

  Fun, Air, Earth Day

  "Waiting to Inhale: Don't Take a Breath Without the Report From Our Air Pollution Control District". The San Diego Union-Tribune, January 31, 2008.

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• To take another breath, we must first exhale. When we have breathed out and emptied our lungs, we can breathe in again.

  Ilchi Lee

  Firsts, Breathe, Breaths

  FaceBook post by Ilchi Lee from Sep 12, 2014

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• Forests are the lungs of our land.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Land, Earth Day, Tree

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4”, p.65, Best Books on

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• What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Love, Motivational, Stars

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3125, Library of Alexandria

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• To breathe, we do not only need air and lungs, but also freedom!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Freedom, Air, Needs

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• Hope is to our spirits what oxygen is to our lungs. Lose hope and you die. They may not bury you for awhile, but without hope you are dead inside. The only way to face the future is to fly straight into it on the wings of hope....hope is the energy of the soul. Hope is the power of tomorrow.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Hope, Oxygen, Wings

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• Eyes are vocal, tears have tongues,
  And there be words not made with lungs.

  Richard Crashaw

  Inspirational, Eye, Tears

  "Poetical Works: And, Quarles' Emblems".

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• Metaphysical speculation is about as pointless as a discussion on the meaning of one's lungs. They're for breathing.

  P. D. James

  Breathing, Metaphysical, Speculation

  P. D. James (1984). “Trilogy of Death: Three Complete Novels”, Scribner Book Company

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• It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

  Charles Dickens

  Eye, Exercise, Cry

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.142

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• Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.

  Douglas Coupland

  Air, Leaving, Bars

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• Those trees are your lungs. The earth recycles as your body. The rivers recycle as your circulation. The air is your breath. So what do we call the environment?

  Deepak Chopra

  Air, Rivers, Tree

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• We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract. Matter changes hands, atoms flow in and out, molecules pivot, proteins stitch together, mitochondria send out their oxidative dictates; we begin as a microscopic electrical swarm. The lungs the brain the heart. Forty weeks later, six trillion cells get crushed in the vise of our mother’s birth canal and we howl. Then the world starts in on us.

  Anthony Doerr

  Mother, Heart, Cells

  Anthony Doerr (2014). “All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel”, p.468, Simon and Schuster

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• The feeling of it to my lungs was not sensibly different from that of common air; but I fancied that my breast felt peculiarly light and easy for some time afterwards. Who can tell but that, in time, this pure air may become a fashionable article in luxury. Hitherto only two mice and myself have had the privilege of breathing it.

  Joseph Priestley

  Science, Light, Air

  Joseph Priestley (1775). “Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air: Vol. II. By Joseph Priestley, ...”, p.102

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• If you just do a Google search and type in 'smoking' or 'lung cancer', you will be barraged with never ending facts and numbers, like how one in every three Americans is affected by lung disease and how COPD is the third leading cause of death and if you get lung cancer the odds are 95% that you will die.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Cancer, Odds, Numbers

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• I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.

  Frank Langella

  Home, Grew Up, Household

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• The risk of developing carcinoma of the lung increases steadily as the amount smoked increases. If the risk among non-smokers is taken as unity and the resulting ratios in the three age groups in which a large number of patients were interviewed (ages 45 to 74) are averaged, the relative risks become 6, 19, 26, 49, and 65 when the number of cigarettes smoked a day are 3, 10, 20, 35, and, say, 60-that is, the mid-points of each smoking group. In other words, on the admittedly speculative assumptions we have made, the risk seems to vary in approximately simple proportion with the amount smoked.

  Richard Doll

  Cancer, Taken, Science

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• Everyone knows that exercise can improve your health. Exercise is a key part of managing your weight and maintaining healthy hearts, lungs, and other bodily systems. But did you know that exercise can make you more productive? The latest research shows that a regular exercise routine can make you happier, smarter, and more energetic.

  Robert Pozen

  Heart, Exercise, Keys

  "Exercise Increases Productivity" by Robert Pozen, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 23, 2012.

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• Hundreds of butts in piles on the ground to mark the spot, their lives sucked out of them by their users in panicked distressed frenzy, their souls floating around the insides of lungs while their outsides were dropped, stamped on and deserted

  Cecelia Ahern

  Life Sucks, Soul, Floating

  Cecelia Ahern (2011). “The Time of My Life”, p.2, HarperCollins UK

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• A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Environment, Fallacy, Rely

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.132, Hamilton Books

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• I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'

  Cher

  Work Out, Age, My Family

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