Lungs Quotes

• I always loved running.... It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.

  Jesse Owens

  Running, Endurance, Track And Field

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• What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.

  Emil Brunner

  Life, Hope, Spiritual

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• The trees are our lungs, the rivers our circulation, the air our breath, and the earth our body.

  Deepak Chopra

  Air, Rivers, Tree

  Twitter post from Aug 2, 2009

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• Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.

  David Hockney

  Laughing

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• Man cannot breathe with borrowed lungs.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Breathe, Mankind

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.

  Robert Orben

  Fun, Air, Earth Day

  "Waiting to Inhale: Don't Take a Breath Without the Report From Our Air Pollution Control District". The San Diego Union-Tribune, January 31, 2008.

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• Forests are the lungs of our land.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Land, Earth Day, Tree

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4”, p.65, Best Books on

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• What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Love, Motivational, Stars

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3125, Library of Alexandria

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• To breathe, we do not only need air and lungs, but also freedom!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Freedom, Air, Needs

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• Eyes are vocal, tears have tongues,
  And there be words not made with lungs.

  Richard Crashaw

  Inspirational, Eye, Tears

  "Poetical Works: And, Quarles' Emblems".

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• Hope is to our spirits what oxygen is to our lungs. Lose hope and you die. They may not bury you for awhile, but without hope you are dead inside. The only way to face the future is to fly straight into it on the wings of hope....hope is the energy of the soul. Hope is the power of tomorrow.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Hope, Oxygen, Wings

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• It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

  Charles Dickens

  Eye, Exercise, Cry

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.142

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• I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.

  Frank Langella

  Home, Grew Up, Household

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• The risk of developing carcinoma of the lung increases steadily as the amount smoked increases. If the risk among non-smokers is taken as unity and the resulting ratios in the three age groups in which a large number of patients were interviewed (ages 45 to 74) are averaged, the relative risks become 6, 19, 26, 49, and 65 when the number of cigarettes smoked a day are 3, 10, 20, 35, and, say, 60-that is, the mid-points of each smoking group. In other words, on the admittedly speculative assumptions we have made, the risk seems to vary in approximately simple proportion with the amount smoked.

  Richard Doll

  Cancer, Taken, Science

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• I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'

  Cher

  Work Out, Age, My Family

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• A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Environment, Fallacy, Rely

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.132, Hamilton Books

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• Raindrops are beating, a large puddle is forming, there on the balcony. It all floats in Emptiness, in purest Transparency, with no one here to watch it. If there is an I, it is all that is arising, right now and right now and right now. My lungs are the sky; those mountains are my teeth; the clouds are my skin; the thunder is my heart beating time to the timeless; the rain itself, the tears of our collective estate, here where nothing is really happening.

  Ken Wilber

  Rain, Heart, Sky

  Ken Wilber (2000). “One Taste”, p.151, Shambhala Publications

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• Whatever difficulty you face, there are time-tried ways you can listen your way through. Because listening is the doorway to everything that matters. It enlivens the heart the way breathing enlivens the lungs. We listen to awaken our heart. We do this to stay vital and alive.

  Mark Nepo

  Wise, Wisdom, Heart

  Mark Nepo (2012). “Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• Wouldn't it be good to forget everything even if it's just for tonight? Indulge in pleasure... breathe a sweet poison deep into your lungs.

  SebastiAn

  Sweet, Forget Everything, Indulge In

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• It's very difficult to play when your lung comes out of your air

  Paul Merson

  Air, Play, Difficult

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• My body rises with the water. Instead of kicking my feet to stay abreast of it, I push all the air from my lungs and sink to the bottom. The water muffles my ears. I feel its movement over my face. I think about snorting the water into my lungs so it kills me faster, but I can't bring myself to do it. I blow bubbles from my mouth. Relax. I close my eyes. My lungs burn.

  Veronica Roth

  Eye, Blow, Thinking

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• To take another breath, we must first exhale. When we have breathed out and emptied our lungs, we can breathe in again.

  Ilchi Lee

  Firsts, Breathe, Breaths

  FaceBook post by Ilchi Lee from Sep 12, 2014

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• There is no way that the heart-lung machine could have been devised and developed other than through studies on living creatures

  Norman L Browse

  Heart, Animal, Way

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• Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer! If anybody is getting a cancerous activity in the lung, the probabilities are that it's radiation dosage coupled with the fact that he smokes.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Cancer, Smoking, Causes

  Lecture 35 in Saint Hill Special Briefing Course, July 19, 1961.

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• Air goes in and out of my nose, throat, lungs, blood, heart brain - and so I am

  Matthew Quick

  Heart, Air, Blood

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