Kidneys Quotes

• I'm a prime example of the way kidney disease strikes silently.

  Sean Elliott

  Example, Disease, Way

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• The responsibility for maintaining the composition of the blood in respect to other constituents devolves largely upon the kidneys. It is no exaggeration to say that the composition of the blood is determined not by what the mouth ingests but by what the kidneys keep; they are the master chemists of our internal environment, which, so to speak, they synthesize in reverse.

  Homer Smith

  Responsibility, Blood, Mouths

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• People saw me as being heroic, but I was no more heroic than I was with other injuries I had, like the lacerated kidney I suffered during the 1990 World Series. It's just that people haven't known anyone with a lacerated kidney, but everyone can relate to someone with cancer.

  Eric Davis

  Cancer, People, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.

  Vince Cable

  Men, Thinking, Pie

  "What's in your basket, Vince Cable?" by Rebecca Seal and Dr John Briffa, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2009.

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• I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.

  T. S. Eliot

  Hero, Heaven, Honor

  T. S. Eliot (2012). “The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized organs are manifestations of the same living matter. This adapts itself to different jobs and circumstances, but operates on the same basic principles. Muscle contraction is only one of these adaptations. In principle it would not matter whether we studied nerve, kidney or muscle to understand the basic principles of life. In practice, however, it matters a great deal.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Life, Jobs, Science

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• I'd like people to know that you can head off kidney disease, maybe prevent a transplant or stop the disease from progressing after detection by doing a simple urine test in the doctor's office.

  Sean Elliott

  Simple, Doctors, Office

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• I was a healthy young man, and I thought I was invincible before I was diagnosed with kidney disease.

  Sean Elliott

  Men, Healthy, Disease

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  I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.

  Ray Charles

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Music

  Ray Charles (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”

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• Australia, Australia, we love you from the heart. The kidneys, the liver & the giblets too. And every other part.

  Spike Milligan

  Love You, Heart, Science

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• When I was a child, I was unable to go to any type of sleepaway summer camp because of health issues. Once I learned about the Lopez Foundation, I knew I wanted to get involved, send kids with kidney disease away to camp so they can still experience overnight camp with medical needs at hand.

  Sarah Hyland

  Summer, Children, Kids

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Dedicated researchers seek better treatments and cures for diabetes, kidney disease, Alzheimer's and every form of cancer. But these scientists face an array of disincentives. We can do better.

  Michael Milken

  Cancer, Alzheimer's, Disease

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• You know that family is going to be there for you no matter what. My dad gave me a freakin' kidney!

  Sarah Hyland

  Dad, Matter, Knows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs.

  Xavier Becerra

  Jobs, Quality, Disease

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• African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.

  Xavier Becerra

  White, Giving, African American

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• To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime.

  Primo Levi

  Heart, Brain, Exaltation

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• I was in end stage heart failure, liver and kidneys shutting down, and on an emergency basis they went in and planted a pump in my chest. It was battery operated. That kept me alive for 20 months and that got me to the transplant. And I wake up every morning now with a smile on my face, thankful for the gift of another day I never expected to see.

  Dick Cheney

  Morning, Heart, Batteries

  "Former Vice President Dick Cheney talks NSA surveillance program". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. June 16, 2013.

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• Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

  Roger Kahn

  Boxing, Halls, Battered

  Roger Kahn (2012). “Games We Used to Play: A Lover's Quarrel with the World of Sport”, p.41, Diversion Books

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• Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.

  Xavier Becerra

  Aggravation, Twenties, Deterioration

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• I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.

  Layne Staley

  Pain, Thinking, Drug

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

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• I had a test on my kidneys a few weeks back and found out I have two.

  Liam Payne

  Two, Tests, Week

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

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• Once my doctor began treating my kidney disease, my greatest challenge was the constant exhaustion. Fortunately, my doctor explained that anemia was causing my exhaustion and that people with serious illnesses, like kidney disease, may be at increased risk for anemia.

  Alonzo Mourning

  Sports, Doctors, Serious Illness

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• To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime. To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn't.

  Primo Levi

  Stupid, Heart, Brain

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• Superficially, it might be said that the function of the kidneys is to make urine; but in a more considered view one can say that the kidneys make the stuff of philosophy itself.

  Homer Smith

  Philosophy, Science, Views

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• If laughter is the best medicine, I promise to continue to make you laugh as my wife and I work together with the National Kidney Foundation to save lives.

  George Lopez

  Laughter, Medicine, Laughing

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