Transplants Quotes

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

  Lech Walesa

  Heart, Needs, Overjoyed

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• People who live through transplants or disasters like Sept. 11 are survivors.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  People, Survivor, Sept 11

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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, Heart Transplant

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

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• 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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• Just to confirm to all my followers I have had a hair transplant. I was going bald at 25 why not.

  Wayne Rooney

  Football, Hair, Why Not

  Twitter post from Jun 04, 2011

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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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• It was in 2003 that I realised there was no choice but to have dialysis treatment - by the time of the World Cup that year, I could barely walk. A year later, I finally had a kidney transplant.

  Jonah Lomu

  Years, Choices, World

  "First & last: Jonah Lomu". Interview with Nick Green, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2006.

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• We were land-based agrarian people from Africa. We were uprooted from Africa, and we spent 200 years developing our culture as black Americans. And then we left the South. We uprooted ourselves and attempted to transplant this culture to the pavements of the industrialized North. And it was a transplant that did not take. I think if we had stayed in the South, we would have been a stronger people. And because the connection between the South of the 20's, 30's and 40's has been broken, it's very difficult to understand who we are.

  August Wilson

  Thinking, Years, Land

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• It would not be more unreasonable to transplant a favorite flower out of black earth into gold dust than it is for a person to let money-getting harden his heart into contempt, or into impatience, of the little attentions, the merriments and the caresses of domestic life.

  William Mountford

  Flower, Heart, Dust

  William Mountford, Frederic Dan Huntington (1850). “Martyria: A Legend, Wherein are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth”, p.251

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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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• When we transplant organs, we are enabling viruses to jump natural barriers between species.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Viruses, Enabling, Natural

  "Making Progress Against Animal Cruelty: An interview with Wayne Pacelle". Interview with Karen Dawn, progressive.org. July 20, 2016.

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• I could have played football for two or three more years. All I needed was a leg transplant.

  Johnny Unitas

  Sports, Football, Years

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• Every year, nearly two-thirds of the approximately 200,000 patients in need of a bone marrow transplant will not find a marrow donor that matches within their families.

  Nathan Deal

  Years, Two, Needs

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• I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born.

  David Baltimore

  Running, Thinking, Technology

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• A patient healthy enough to undergo a kidney transplant might someday no longer need dialysis. That would free up a slot for a new patient.

  Sheri Fink

  Healthy, Needs, Might

  "Kidney Patients Face Dialysis Rationing" by Sheri Fink, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 21, 2010.

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• Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep her fruit till it be ripe.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Retirement, Tree, Fruit

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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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• 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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• There is a risk of death associated with donating a piece of liver. It's about one in 500 for the risk of death. The risk of death of donating a kidney is about one in 3000, so this is a riskier operation than donating a kidney. The stakes are usually higher for the recipient of the transplant because unlike kidney failure, where you have a dialysis machine, in liver failure we don't have that kind of machine that allows a patient to survive until they can get a cadaver organ.

  John Roberts

  Risk, Kidneys, Cadavers

  Source: www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org

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• When we think about living donor transplant, what we're banking on is the ability of the liver to regenerate itself. Now, it's not the same sort of regeneration we think about with the starfish where we cut off the arm and it grows a new arm. With the liver, what happens is the remaining liver gets bigger, and your body knows the size of the liver that it needs, and when it recognizes that there is not enough liver, it sends nutrients and signals to the liver and says "get bigger."

  John Roberts

  Cutting, Thinking, Needs

  Source: www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org

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• If we had enough cadaver organs to go around we wouldn't do living donor liver transplants because one is we don't want to put a donor at risk, but the second is that it's a more difficult surgery for the recipient because you're getting a piece of a liver rather than a whole liver. It takes you longer to recover, and it has more complications related to where we sew together the blood vessels and the bile ducts.

  John Roberts

  Blood, Risk, Together

  Source: www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org

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• Pretty much everybody knows there are not enough organs for all of those patients who need to get transplants, and what happens is, is that organs are actually directed in liver transplantation to those patients who are the sickest. So the patients who have the greatest chance of dying in the next three months or so are the ones who get the priority for the liver transplant.

  John Roberts

  Priorities, Dying, Three

  Source: www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org

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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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• I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another's fame. Thus prudes, by characters o'erthrown, Imagine that they raise their own. Thus Scribblers, covetous of praise, Think slander can transplant the bays.

  John Gay

  Hate, Character, Men

  John Gay, Nathaniel Cotton, Edward Moore (1826). “Gay's Fables and other poems: Cotton's visions in verse ; Moore's Fables for the female sex ; with sketches of the authors' lives”, p.73

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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, Complexes

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