Health Quotes
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As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was... before I learned about it, I thought it was paradoxical.
Bill Gates
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To have a healthy culture, you have to have stable health care financing and stable arts financing and stable sports financing, and if you don't have that, your culture becomes a parking lot.
Douglas Coupland
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I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Medicaid and the Child Health Insurance Program are the two most important safety net programs for children.
Irwin Redlener
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If our financial industry regarded security the way the health-care sector does, I would stuff my cash in a mattress under my bed.
Avi Rubin
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The thing constantly overlooked by those hopefuls who talk about abolishing war is that it is by no means an evidence of decay but rather a proof of health and vigor.
H. L. Mencken
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The good of the people must be the great purpose of government. By the laws of nature and of reason, the governors are invested with power to that end. And the greatest good of the people is liberty. It is to the state what health is to the individual.
Denis Diderot
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We have to be thankful considering our number as a family we enjoy very good health generally but you may be sure me and my partner have quite enough to exercise our minds and occupy our attention.
John Hawley
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The mind and body are not separate units, but one integrated system. How we act and what we think, eat, and feel are all related to our health. Physicians should be capable of teaching this behavior to patients.
Bernie Siegel
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During the last regular session and the most recent special session, measures that I see as little more than Band-Aids were applied to three health programs in the state.
Jane D. Hull
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The problem that has no name (which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities) is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.
Betty Friedan
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I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.
Harold Wilson
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Every second, every day, every year, we fail to address demand for reproductive health and family planning services. Lives are lost, and girls' opportunities to thrive and contribute to their country's development shrink. These are real people.
Jenny Shipley
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I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.
George McGovern
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If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commerical insurance industry insure them. Until these most expert judges of risk are willing to gamble with their money, I'm not willing to gamble with the health and safety of my family.
Donna Reed
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We believe in honoring our mothers and fathers and keeping our smallest residents - our children - healthy. The politicians in charge of Texas now clearly don't. Perry has refused to even consider expanding health care coverage in Texas because he cares more about scoring political points than he does about our Texas families.
Wendy Davis
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Governors normally have jurisdiction over public health emergencies, but a widespread biological attack would cross state boundaries.
Barton Gellman
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The doctors and nurses at the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital are saving lives every day and helping improve health care in the DRC which has been ravaged by more than a decade of war and disease.
Dikembe Mutombo
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The Fed would only pause on the GM news if there were some indication that the news threatens the health of the economy as a whole or the health of the financial markets as a whole.
Chris Lowe Pet Shop Boys
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I think that we should take the tragedy that happened in Newtown and have a full comprehensive dialogue about all issues, whether it has to do with mental health, whether it has to do with the social decline of our young people and some of the things that they are exposed to, whether it has to do with the firearms and guns.
Ann Wagner
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People who shop in health food stores never look healthy.
Amy Sedaris
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Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds.
Daley Thompson
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I have met too many people who are looking for work, worrying about their mortgage, uncertain about their health insurance, and doubting that things will get any better anytime soon. Not just concerned about the present, many of us are doubting the future.
Brad Schneider
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Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.
Jeff Bridges