Malaria Quotes

• There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  World, Bills, Cures

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• The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.

  Bill Gates

  Children, Years, Population

  "Charting a Course to End Malaria" by Bill Gates, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2011.

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• Malaria kills and its main victims are children and women. We can stop this scourge so people can live with dignity and go to work and school.

  Youssou N'Dour

  Children, School, People

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• I believe it’s not only possible to eradicate malaria; I believe it’s necessary. Ultimately, the cost of controlling it endlessly is not sustainable. The only way to stop this disease is to end it forever.

  Bill Gates

  Believe, Forever, Cost

  "We Can Eradicate Malaria—Within a Generation". www.gatesnotes.com. November 2, 2014.

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• Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.

  Richard Stallman

  Fighting, Patents, Mosquitoes

  Newsforge, September 09, 2004.

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• Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Water, Dying, Literature

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• For Africa to move forward, you've really got to get rid of malaria.

  Bill Gates

  Moving, Moving Forward

  "Why Bill Gates Fights Diseases Abroad, Not At Home". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. April 24, 2014.

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• We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.

  Paul Farmer

  Country, Taken, Victory

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• AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq.

  Jared Diamond

  Iraq, Issues, Cost

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• A man can be riddled with malaria for years on end, with its chills and its fevers and its nightmares, but if one day he sees that the water from his kidneys is black, he knows he will not leave that place again, wherever he is, or wherever he hoped to be.

  Beryl Markham

  Men, Years, Water

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.35, Open Road Media

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• I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

  Denis Johnson

  Three, Stories, Four

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• There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

  Bill Gates

  Cancer, People, Dying

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• Many diseases including malaria, dengue, meningitis - just a few examples - these are what we call climate-sensitive diseases, because such climate dimensions for rainfall, humidity and temperature would influence the epidemics, the outbreaks, either directly influencing the parasites or the mosquitoes that carry them.

  Margaret Chan

  Epidemics, Mosquitoes, Disease

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• I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lonely, Halloween, Fall

  Henry David Thoreau, Laura Ross (2009). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods: Bold-faced Ideas for Living a Truly Transcendent Life”, p.50, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• This day relenting God
  Hath placed within my hand
  A wondrous thing; and God
  Be praised. At His command,
  Seeking His secret deeds
  With tears and toiling breath,
  I find thy cunning seeds,
  O million-murdering Death.
  I know this little thing
  A myriad men will save.
  O Death, where is thy sting?
  Thy victory, O Grave?
  Poem he wrote following the discovery that the malaria parasite was carried by the amopheline mosquito.

  Ronald Ross

  God, Men, Discovery

  Philosophies (1910) "In Exile" pt. 7 (describing his part in discovering the life-cycle of the malaria parasite in 1897; cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 77:1)

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• I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of mosquito.

  Ronald Ross

  Failure, Science, Mosquitoes

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• The idea that addiction is somehow a psychological illness is, I think, totally ridiculous. It's as psychological as malaria. It's a matter of exposure. People, generally speaking, will take any intoxicant or any drug that gives them a pleasant effect if it is available to them.

  William S. Burroughs

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

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• Previous efforts to eradicate malaria failed for several reasons, including political instability and technical challenges in delivering resources, especially in certain countries in Africa.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Country, Effort, Political

  "Commentary: Yes, we can eradicate malaria" by Anthony S. Fauci, www.cnn.com. April 25, 2009.

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• Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Age, Botox, Pox

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• Take of London fog 30 parts; malaria 10 parts, gas leaks 20 parts, dewdrops gathered in a brickyard at sunrise 25 parts; odor of honeysuckle 15 parts. Mix. The mixture will give you an approximate conception of a Nashville drizzle.

  O. Henry

  Fog, Nashville, Giving

  O. Henry (1992). “The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.

  Adam Ant

  Going Away, Medication, Triggers

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• Science has been quite embattled. It's the most important thing there is. An arts graduate is not going to fix global warming. They may do other valuable things, but they are not going to fix the planet or cure cancer or get rid of malaria.

  Bill Bryson

  Art, Cancer, Important

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• The year I was born, 1955, the first big disease-eradication program in the world was declared for malaria. After about a decade of work, they realized that, at least in the tropical areas, they did not have the tools to get it done.

  Bill Gates

  Years, Firsts, Tools

  "Why Bill Gates Fights Diseases Abroad, Not At Home". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. April 24, 2014.

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• [we have]taming of an ancient disease [malaria] that over the centuries has killed untold millions of people.

  Margaret Chan

  People, Taming, Disease

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• Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

  John Green

  Christian, Buddhist, Alaska

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.68, Penguin

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