Quotes about Health

“If you look upon chronic diseases as an epidemic, and you see that the chronically ill are the poor, then you see that this issue of the uninsured is not really a moral but a financial obligation to change health care.”

“You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.”

“Physical health and mental health are the most important things that members should take care of.”

“We need to start training more primary health providers and fewer specialists. We will never be able to control health care costs unless we challenge the over-emphasis on medical research, specialists and technology and put more emphasis on delivering good, everyday basic medicine to those who now have none.”

“Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die.”

“With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally.”

“Disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods, oil spills and radioactive fallout cause massive death of people, pigs, bats and birds. These disasters also impact the immune health of survivors. All harbor viruses.”

“My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.”

“See, that's why Barack's running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly - to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American - and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.”

“The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.”

“I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.”

“I know the crucial role community health centers play in keeping our most vulnerable neighbors healthy from both sides. When I was uninsured, I relied on a community health center to provide my health care.”

“I pray for forgiveness. For help and guidance. To be a better person. For the health of my family. For the world to be a better place.”

“Laughter is important, not only because it makes us happy, it also has actual health benefits. And that's because laughter completely engages the body and releases the mind. It connects us to others, and that in itself has a healing effect.”

“Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.”

“The Environmental Protection Agency's first-ever limits on carbon pollution from power plants will create clean- energy jobs, improve public health, bring greater reliability to our electric power grid, bolster our national security, demonstrate the United States' resolve to combat climate change and maybe even reduce our utility bills.”

“A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us.”

“Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.”

“Competition in our health system is a powerful force of cost-containment.”

“It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.”

“There is no limit to how much health you can provide people.”