Polio Quotes

• When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Children, Polio Vaccine, People

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• We're all responsible for creating a polio-free world while we still can.

  Bill Gates

  Creating, World, Responsible

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• Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.

  Melinda Gates

  Children, Polio Vaccine, Vaccines

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

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• We have completely eradicated smallpox; we have almost eradicated polio. That's the miracle of vaccines, which is even greater than that of antibiotics.

  Bill Gates

  Vaccines, Miracle, Antibiotics

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time.

  Bill Gates

  Special, Disease

  "Bill Gates Is Trying To Eliminate Polio, But Radical Islamists Keep Killing People To Stop Him" by Michael Kelley, www.sfgate.com. March 1, 2013.

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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, Pneumonia, Average

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• If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung.

  Billie Holiday

  Dope, Thinking, Iron

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (1956). “Lady sings the blues”

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• If you give us a safe vaccine, we'll use it. It shouldn't be polio versus autism.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Polio Vaccine, Vaccines, Autism

  "Jenny McCarthy on Autism and Vaccines". Interview with Jeffrey Kluger, content.time.com. April 1, 2009.

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• When you inoculate children with a polio vaccine, you don't sleep well for two or three months.

  Jonas Salk

  Children, Sleep, Vaccines

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• [Who owns the patent on this vaccine?] Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?

  Jonas Salk

  Humility, Vaccines, People

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• I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Girl, Teacher, School

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• I think disease and all the things that we treat are tied to national security in a lot of ways that we maybe don't realize or that the American people don't realize. If other countries have a chance to be stable, then that helps us. If there are ways we can prevent if there are ways we can help other countries defeat diseases, we're about to totally eradicate polio. And can you imagine? That would be so terrific.

  Laura Bush

  Country, Helping Others, Thinking

  "Laura Bush, Melinda Gates, CARE President on Women’s Issues, U.S. Foreign Aid". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. March 9, 2011.

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• It's extremely hard to get rid of any population. When they say polio is essentially wiped out, it's not. If we let up on the vaccinations, it will make a come back.

  Greg Graffin

  Population, Hard, Ifs

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Provocation polio. That is the truth about those outbreaks of polio. And I offer a well considered personal opinion that polio is a man made disease.

  Viera Scheibner

  Men, Personal Opinions, Polio Vaccine

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• Fear is the polio of the soul. Faith is the life based on unseen realities; it is the word become flesh.

  Clarence Jordan

  Reality, Soul, Unseen

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• A deranged person is supposed to have the strength of ten men. I have the strength of one small boy... with polio.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Humorous, Boys

  "Fictional character: Kleinman". "Shadows and Fog", www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• India just went 3 years with no cases [of polio]. Pakistan is our toughest location right now because some parts of the Taliban have not allowed vaccinators to come in and have even attacked vaccinators. We are hopeful this will get resolved since no one wants their kid to be paralyzed. I spend a lot of time making sure the polio campaign is doing the best it can. We have great computer models that help guide our activities.

  Bill Gates

  Kids, Years, Hopeful

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 10, 2014.

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• Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Children, Polio Vaccine, Vaccines

  "How We Can Save Over 4 Million Children" by Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2010.

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• In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still.

  Ziggy Marley

  Kids, Years, Jamaica

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

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• I am no saviour. I’m absolutely the last person on the planet who can practically help. I don’t know how to make the different types of therapeutic feeding milk. I’m no chemist. I’m no doctor. I’m no engineer. I can’t manufacture polio vaccines or organise their transportation to the health centres in Saramoussayah or Bissikirima. I can’t build schools, or design drainage systems. I can’t provide the women and children of Mandiana with water.All I can do now is help make people aware of what is happening, of what they are doing. That is all that I can do. For now.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Children, School, Doctors

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• Polio has not been eradicated by vaccination, it is lurking behind a redefinition and new diagnostic names like viral or aseptic meningitis.......According to one of the 1997 issues of the MMWR, there are some 30,000 to 50,000 cases of viral meningitis per year in the United States alone. That's where all those 30,000 - 50,000 cases of polio disappeared after the introduction of mass vaccination

  Viera Scheibner

  Years, Names, Issues

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• Somebody bought me a Snuggie as a joke gift. Haha, the joke's on you, I enjoy it. I toss and turn at night, finally a blanket that's like, 'I'm going to keep you warm.' It's like having a small child with polio keep you in a full nelson - the perfect pressure.

  Daniel Tosh

  Children, Night, Perfect

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• My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Womens Singles tennis champion in college.

  Uzo Aduba

  Mother, Fate, College

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• That is why we have the polio vaccine. People are blazing their own trial. That is what seems to be important. I don't care to follow and to do what the mass is doing. That is not doing anything, to be doing what everyone else is doing. Everybody is unique. The funny thing about people now is that people don't really understand or really appreciate how unique each individual on earth is.

  Henry Threadgill

  Unique, Polio Vaccine, Funny Things

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• Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Age, Malaria, Botox

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