Pneumonia Quotes

• All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia.

  Margaret Chan

  Country, Pandemics, Fierce

  "WHO increases swine flu alert". www.abc.net.au. April 30, 2009.

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• I had a series of childhood illnesses... scarlet fever.... pneumonia.... Polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years old. My life wasn't like the average person who grew up and decided to enter the world of sports.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Sports, Average, Years

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• The drink? Yes, I've had tough times in my life, especially the last year, regarding my ex-wife, my kids, I nearly broke my neck, I was on death row with pneumonia.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Kids, Years, Wife

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• Now, Bad Ass, you run your mouth about Summerslam. Well, here's the situation. The Rock says this, if the Rock hits you he'll kill you. If he misses, the wind behind the punch will give you pneumonia and you'll die anyway, so the choice is yours, jabroni.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Running, Wrestling, Bad Ass

  "Line-O-Rama: The Rock Says" by Matt Fowler, www.ign.com. July 02, 2009.

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• I nearly died of double bronchial pneumonia at the age of five.

  Roger Moore

  Birthday, Age, Died

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• By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures - we are enhancing our own.

  Mandy Moore

  Children, Men, Productive Life

  "Remembering the Forgotten Killer" by Mandy Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2011.

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• I quit school in the sixth grade because of pneumonia. Not because I had it, but because I couldn't spell it.

  Rocky Graziano

  Funny, Sports, School

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• If we do not allow for a rhythm of rest in our overly busy lives, illness becomes our Sabbath— our pneumonia, our cancer, our heart attack, our accidents create Sabbath for us.

  Wayne Muller

  Cancer, Heart, Busy

  Wayne Muller (2013). “Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives”, p.20, Bantam

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• Lungs, they do not like to be messed with. I give pneumonia one star and that's for the silent p.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Stars, Giving, Silent

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Nobody would ever convince me that the bronchitis and pneumonia were caused by cigarettes.

  Barbara Warren

  Cigarette, Bronchitis, Convince

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• On December 17, 1984, I had surgery to remove two inches of my left lung due to pneumonia. After two hours of surgery the doctors told my mother I had AIDS.

  Ryan White

  Mother, Doctors, Two

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• I put a lot of effort into writing 'A Briefer History' at a time when I was critically ill with pneumonia because I think that it's important for scientists to explain their work, particularly in cosmology. This now answers many questions once asked of religion.

  Stephen Hawking

  Writing, Thinking, Effort

  "Return of the time lord". Interview With Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2005.

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• No one has died from giving a bad presentation. Well, at least one person did, President William Henry Harrison, but he developed pneumonia after giving the longest inaugural address in U.S. history. The easy lesson from his story: keep it short, or you might die.

  Scott Berkun

  Giving, President, Stories

  Scott Berkun (2009). “Confessions of a Public Speaker”, p.13, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• We just sent some footage to ABC Primetime, who is doing a segment that alleges to tell our side of the story, and in that, a week before she became ill, there's Eliza Jane at her friend's birthday party, blowing, over and over again, a party horn - the one with the long, curly thing that sticks out when you blow it and retracts when you breathe in - over and over and over again...this child that, a few weeks later, would be said to have died of fatal pneumonia.

  Christine Maggiore

  Children, Party, Blow

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• The biggest killers of children around the world are two things: diarrhea and pneumonia. When you think about it, in the United States, kids don't die of diarrhea anymore, but it's a huge problem in the developing world.

  Melinda Gates

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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• I don't know who had the bright idea of teaching pneumonia how to walk, but I'd like to find that dunderhead before he decides he wants to teach it how to drive.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Teaching, Ideas, Want

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• The flu can definitely set you up for bacterial pneumonias.

  Paul A. Offit

  Flu

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• Pneumococcus is a fairly common cause of pneumonia and [raises the] risk of death in older adults.

  Paul A. Offit

  Risk, Adults, Causes

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• Only after realising that routine immunisations were dangerous did I achieve a substantial drop in infant death rates.

  Archie Kalokerinos

  Flu Vaccine, Vaccines, Routine

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• Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Making Love, Stories

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• The peril of this century is spiritual apathy. As the body requires sunlight, good food, proper exercise and rest, so the spirit of man requires the sunlight of the Holy Spirit; proper exercise of the spiritual functions; the avoiding of evils that affect spiritual health, that are more ravaging in their effects than typhoid fever, pneumonia, or other diseases that attack the body.

  David O. McKay

  Spiritual, Exercise, Men

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• In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to use the phrase of Bunyan 'the captain of the men of death.'

  William Osler

  Science, Men, Cities

  Aequanimitas, with Other Addresses 'Medicine in the Nineteenth Century'

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• Don't listen to people telling you that getting up early is best. René Descartes is one of history's most important philosophers, but he rarely got out of bed before noon - and when he started getting up early for a new job as a private tutor, it caused him to catch pneumonia and die.

  Gideon Defoe

  Jobs, Up Early, People

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• Never forget that it is not a pneumonia, but a pneumonic man who is your patient.

  Sir William Gull, 1st Baronet

  Men, Medical, Patient

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• Somebody said to me the other day, 'You know, it's really senseless, what you're doing. There's always been suffering, there will always be suffering, and you're just prolonging the suffering of these children [by rescuing them].' My answer is, 'Okay, then, let's start with your grandchild. Don't buy antibiotics if it gets pneumonia. Don't take it to the hospital of it has an accident. It's against life-against humanity-to think that way.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Children, Thinking, Humanity

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