Lungs Quotes - Page 16

• I could've enjoyed a cigarette if I smoked back before everyone knew it was bad - say, like, 1923. Everybody smoked back then. There was no medical information against it; they had no idea - it was a paradise. It was a smoker's paradise: 'They're taking my lung out next week. I don't know why. Doctor thinks maybe I'm brushing my teeth too often, but I can't help it because, for some reason, my breath smells like I licked a monkey's ass.

  Arj Barker

  Thinking, Doctors, Next Week

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• I felt okay for the first 45 seconds, and then my vision grew fussy. My lungs felt like deflated balloons. I would have sucked oxygen through my ears, if that were possible. I was experiencing oxygen debt, or perhaps better stated, oxygen death.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Oxygen, Vision, Ears

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• You know, once I was thinking of quitting when I was diagnosed with brain, lung and testicular cancer all at the same time. But with the love and support of my friends and family, I got back on the bike and won the Tour de France five times in a row. But I'm sure you have a good reason to quit.

  Lance Armstrong

  Running, Cancer, Thinking

  "Go ahead, hit me". Interview with Peter La Fleur, poststar.com. December 29, 2005.

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• For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.

  St. Jerome

  Dignity, Empty, Stomach

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• Man beholds the earth, and it is breathing like a great lung; whenever it exhales, delightful life swarms from all its pores and reaches out toward the sun, but when it inhales, a moan of rupture passes through the multitude, and corpses whip the ground like bouts of hail.

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Men, Breathing, Earth

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• Lay your life down. Your heartbeats cannot be hoarded. Your reservoir of breaths is draining away. You have hands, blister them while you can. You have bones, make them strain - they can carry nothing in the grave. You have lungs, let them spill with laughter.

  N.D. Wilson

  Laughter, Hands, Bones

  N. D. Wilson (2013). “Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent”, p.84, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Evolution is an unproven theory. If what its fundamentalist supporters believe is true, fishes decided to grow lungs and legs and walk up the beach. The idea is so comically daft that only one thing explains its survival-that lonely, frightened people wanted to expel God from the Universe because they found the idea that He exists profoundly uncomfortable.

  Peter Hitchens

  Beach, Lonely, Believe

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• Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophy, Giving, Advice

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• At the top of your lungs, shout and listen to the echoes. You must live life at the top of your voice!

  Ray Bradbury

  Live Life, Echoes, Voice

  Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.258, Melville House

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• Gratitude is the confidence in life itself... As gratitude grows it gives rise to joy. We experience the courage to rejoice in our own good fortune and in the good fortune of others... We can be joyful for people we love, for moments of goodness, for sunlight and trees, and for the very breath within our lungs. Like an innocent child, we can rejoice in life itself, in being alive.

  Jack Kornfield

  Gratitude, Children, People

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.33, Shambhala Publications

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• Touch me ‘til my ribs become piano keys, ‘til there is sheet music scrolled across the inside of my lungs.

  Andrea Gibson

  Keys, Piano, Ribs

  Andrea Gibson (Poet) (2013). “Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns”, p.37, SCB Distributors

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• Air pollution is terrible for our children. Every single scientist, every single doctor will tell you the same thing: Air pollution damages our children’s brains, their hearts, and their lungs.

  Julianne Moore

  Children, Heart, Doctors

  "Clean Air Anthem" by Ronnie Citron-Fink, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 9, 2012.

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• I think tobacco and alcohol warnings are too general. They should be more to the point: 'People who smoke will eventually cough up small pieces of lung.'... And 'Warning!! Alcohol will turn you into the same jerk your father was.'

  George Carlin

  Father, Thinking, People

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• Count your blessings, but not out-loud, at the top of your lungs.

  Demetri Martin

  Blessing, Count Your Blessings, Loud

  Twitter post from Jul 17, 2012

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• Air you breathe is bad for your lungs so you've got to careful and don't overdue any bad air. Too much pot, too much anything is not good. Your lung is a piece of flesh, a piece of bone. You can injure it.

  Willie Nelson

  Air, Pieces, Flesh

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• In mature years I have always been gregarious, a lover of my kind, dependent upon the company of friends for the very pulse of moral life. To be marooned, to be shut up in a solitary cell, to inhabit a lighthouse, or to camp alone in a forest, these have always seemed to me afflictions too heavy to be borne, even in imagination.  A state in which conversation exists not, is for me an air too empty of oxygen for my lungs to breathe it.

  Edmund Gosse

  Air, Cells, Oxygen

  "Father and Son".

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• As powerful as our legs are, as magnificent as our lungs and arms and muscles are, nothing matters more than the mind.

  Scott Jurek

  Powerful, Mind, Legs

  Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.160, A&C Black

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• Morning exercise, walking in the free, invigorating air of heaven, or cultivating flowers, small fruits, and vegetables, is the surest safeguard against colds, coughs, congestion of the brain, inflammation of the liver, the kidneys, and the lungs, and a hundred other diseases.

  Ellen G. White

  Morning, Flower, Exercise

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Miscellaneous Periodical Articles - Book II of III”, p.775, Lulu Press, Inc

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• If you're doing Plyometrics you can jump higher and run faster and your heart and lungs are going to kick the panties off of anybody else that tries to get out there without it.

  Tony Horton

  Running, Heart, Trying

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• To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe -- to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that draw nourishment from it -- is a wonder beyond words.

  Joanna Macy

  Beautiful, Self, Alive

  Joanna Macy, Molly Young Brown (2014). “Coming Back to Life: The Guide to the Work that Reconnects”, p.91, New Society Publishers

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• I am the only 'celebrity' to be public about my lung cancer.

  Kathryn Joosten

  Cancer, Lung Cancer

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• The earth is round, smoking is linked to lung cancer, gravity makes things fall, and humans are warming the planet. Scientists strongly agree on all of these.

  Scott Mandia

  Cancer, Fall, Smoking

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• The worst scream I have ever heard, by far, is a mother cow on a dairy farm screaming her lungs out day, after day, after day for her stolen baby to be given back to her. And why do they steal babies from their moms? Well, the dairy industry can't have little babies sucking up all that milk that was meant for them. Every time you have a glass of cow milk, some calf is not.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Mom, Mother, Baby

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• A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Stupid, Night

  "Duma Key". Book by Stephen King, January 22, 2008.

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• "Smoking may cause fetal injury or premature birth." ... I found my brand. Just don't get the ones that say, "Lung Cancer."

  Bill Hicks

  Cancer, Smoking, Warning

  "Bill Hicks: Sane Man". Documentary, Comedy, 1989.

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