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

  Geraldine Ferraro

  People, Survivor, Sept 11

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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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• The artificial heart is very effective as a bridge to transplant, but the number of people that can be saved with human hearts is limited. A perfect artificial heart could save many more patients.

  Robert Jarvik

  Heart, Bridges, Numbers

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• I have always loved kids. They are little adults with so much personality, and it is fun to work with that. Whether that means donating school supplies or medication, or [using my celebrity] to get them a bone marrow transplant, I want to help.

  Rihanna

  Fun, School, Mean

  Source: www.glamour.com

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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'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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• 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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• Of the many 'firsts' with which I have been involved at the Texas Heart Institute —including the first successful human heart transplant in the United States and the first total artificial heart transplant in the world—the achievement that may have the greatest impact on health care did not occur in the operating room or in the research laboratory. It happened on a piece of paper... when we created the first-ever packaged pricing plan for cardiovascular surgical procedures.

  Denton Cooley

  Heart, Successful, Impact

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• My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.

  Pat Summerall

  Believe, Sick, Scales

  "Political Sex Scandal; Interview With Pat Summerall; 'Minding Your Business': Wal-Mart; '90-Second Pop'". "American Morning" with Bill Hemmer, Soledad O'Brien, www.cnn.com. June 23, 2004.

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• When you look at Harlem - and I lived there almost five years - most of the people who live in Harlem are transplants. They migrate to Harlem from another place. A lot of them are from the south, so they bring those southern influences with them.

  Mike Colter

  Years, People, Southern

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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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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• I was on dialysis for 18 months before the transplant, so it was important I tried to look ahead to days like my comeback this Saturday. You need those big goals to drive you on.

  Jonah Lomu

  Goal, Important, Needs

  "Jonah Lomu - The road back" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2005.

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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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• A few years ago he had a big heart transplant in Chicago, a five-hour operation. It took the doctors four hours to get him on the operating table.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Heart, Doctors

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 did you get so smart?" He tapped his forehead. "Brain transplant. They put in a whale's. I'm passing all my classes with my eyes closed now, but I just can't get over this craving for krill." He shrugged. "And I feel sorry for the whale that got my brain. Probably swimming around Florida now trying to catch glimpses of girls in bikinis.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Girl, Sorry, Smart

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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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