Hospitals Quotes - Page 32

• I learned to knit in hospital. They give you stuff to do to keep you busy because you're so ill.

  Ringo Starr

  Giving, Stuff, Busy

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• American missionaries have free rein in Uganda. They can go anywhere they please - schools, hospitals, parliament.

  Roger Ross Williams

  School, Uganda, Parliament

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• Actually when I was wounded and recovering in Japan. I went to church there and I remember on the air base where their hospital was, I remember coming out of that church and feeling like I had been - at that point I just felt very, very close to God and that I'd done the right thing with my life. And I knew I wasn't going back to Vietnam. I just knew I wasn't going back.

  Wesley Clark

  Air, Japan, Feelings

  "'I'm Spiritual. I'm Religious. I'm a Good Christian.'". Interview with Steven Waldman, www.beliefnet.com. December 2003.

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• Until you have looked in depth at the system and found out where women in Egypt are not being cut through female genital mutilation, or where kids in Vietnam are not malnourished, or where hospitals in America are getting rid of the superbugs anyway - unless you have that level of curiosity about what's going on without you, you will always come in with your great new recipe and just ignore what's going on, and that will make you much less effective at what you're trying to achieve.

  Duncan Green

  Kids, Cutting, Egypt

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The definition of relationships ought to be left up to the states and that proper protections can be put in place for the right to visit in the hospital or the right to inherit or other legal contractual questions like that.

  Karl Rove

  Definitions, Protection, States

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Husband, Cancer, Phones

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• The best talk is artless, the talk of people trying to reassure or comfort themselves, women in the sun, grouped around baby carriages, talking about their weeks in the hospital or the way meat has gone up, or men in saloons, talking to combat the loneliness everyone feels.

  Joseph Mitchell

  Baby, Loneliness, Men

  Joseph Mitchell (2010). “My Ears Are Bent”, p.11, Vintage

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• People say mental hospitals are for the patients, in fact they are to protect society from them. They are justified in doing that. Society has to do what is best for itself.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  People, Facts, Patient

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I'm not just an actor born in L.A. I was born in the Griffith Park Hospital. You can't get any more clichéd than that.

  Val Kilmer

  Actors, Parks, Born

  Interview with Piotr Uklanski, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 24, 2011.

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• When I was thirteen, I had a nervous breakdown, and I was put into this grown-up mental hospital with all these 50-, 60-year-old men and women. This big, Victorian mental house. There were like five boys in there, all my age, looked after by this woman who was 22 or 23. And it was like "Empire of the Sun" meets "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"-type of arrangement where you've got this young boy overcoming and becoming heroic in the face of this awful place.

  Duncan Roy

  Boys, Men, Years

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Much suffering in hospitals is wasted.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Suffering

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• Every Cuban has a house to live in, no matter how meager. That house is provided by government. Every Cuban who gets sick can go to a doctor or a hospital and get medical attention while 45 million Americans don't have medical insurance. Every Cuban can get education from the kindergarten through college and they don't have to pay. What is Castro doing that we might benefit from-if we are not too arrogant and falsely proud to see what he is doing in a small nation and what we have not been able to do or not been willing to do in the greatest nation on the earth?

  Louis Farrakhan

  College, Doctors, Government

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• Yasser Arafat remains in stable condition after dying in a Paris hospital.

  James Taranto

  Paris, Dying, Arafat

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• The people who are on the front lines every day in hospitals, nurses, the people who are running clinics, the people who are taking care of your children, those are the people who are the lovers of the world, are the good of the world.

  Eve Ensler

  Running, Children, Nurse

  "Playwright-activist Eve Ensler". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. May 22, 2013.

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• There's nothing like the bravery and the strength and the extraordinary optimism of a five-year-old child in a cancer hospital, fighting to live. It's there inside the spirit.

  Frank Langella

  Children, Cancer, Fighting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Just as members of American teachers unions often send their own children to private schools, so unionized workers at government-run hospitals in Britain have insurance that allows them to go to private hospitals. In both cases, those on the inside realize how bad these institutions are, regardless of what they say to those on the outside.

  Thomas Sowell

  Running, Teacher, Children

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• People never understand what a friendship is. I'll tell you what a friendship is to me. Friendship to me is, if my friends need my little finger to live, I'm going to have it cut off. I'm going to the hospital, they cut off my finger, and maybe I have a gold finger instead, and I become famous. But I still give it to my friend.

  Udo Kier

  Cutting, People, Giving

  Interview with Caelum Vatnsdal, www.avclub.com. April 1, 2011.

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• ... trying to control construction costs is like trying to control the cost of a hospital stay. You may not realize that when you sneeze and the nurse hands you a box of tissues, it generates a $5 charge on your bill. But you still have to pay.

  Margo Kaufman

  Hands, Nurse, Trying

  Margo Kaufman (1997). “This Damn House!: My Subcontract with America”, Dell Books

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• I discovered is that I have a couple of valves that were leaky and had been giving, gave me a problem then. But I hadn't noticed anything up until then.A couple of incidents of shortness of breath and checked myself into a hospital, but that one in France really sat me down for a few minutes - a very few minutes, because seven days later I was in the studio, and eight days later, I was no the stage.

  Al Jarreau

  Couple, Eight, Giving

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 5, 2013.

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• I'm talking about France and Germany and Italy and Spain - new friend Germany - and I love that story, how they lead the world in some things that the world needs leadership in. Amongst them we're the only ones without national healthcare. Can't go to a hospital and not worry about falling into bankruptcy. They go to university free. We're killing our students with debt. That scares me.

  Tavis Smiley

  Fall, Talking, Worry

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The doctors couldn't find anything wrong with me except that I have a slight stomach pain. Wait till I get my hospital bill! Then I'll really have a pain the stomach!

  Jack Benny

  Pain, Doctors, Waiting

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• If you vote for candidates who think it's the role of the state to provide health care, don't complain when your hospitals are as badly run as everything else run by the state.

  Daniel Hannan

  Running, Thinking, Complaining

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• The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Teaching, Medicine, Possibility

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• Pretty soon, the only doubt in my mind was the precise time and method of committing suicide. The only alternative I could see was an eternity of hell for the rest of my life in a mental hospital, and I was going to use my last ounce of free choice and choose a quick clean ending.

  Sylvia Plath

  Suicide, Choices, Doubt

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “Letters Home”, p.197, Faber & Faber

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• I was taken to the hospital for observation. I stayed several days, didn't observe anything, and I left.

  George Carlin

  Taken, Observation, Left

  George Carlin (2007). “The Best of Brain Droppings”, p.82, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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