Quotes about Health

“People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.”

“We have food deserts in our cities. We know that the distance you live from a supplier of fresh produce is one of the best predictors of your health. And in the inner city, people don't have grocery stores. So we have to figure out a way of getting supermarkets and farmers markets into the inner cities.”

“Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.”

“In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make money.”

“I'm exhausted trying to stay healthy.”

“I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise longue, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword.”

“Mental health is just as important as physical health, but why is it that we can't find the same access to mental health treatment as we do for physical health ailments?”

“The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing.”

“The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.”

“Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.”

“It's like any other part of your body - your mental health gets sick, and it needs treatment.”

“America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.”

“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.”

“I have a huge belief in the importance of bees, not just for their honey, which is a healing and delicious food, but the necessity of bee colonies that are vital to the health of the planet.”

“Family, nature and health all go together.”

“A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.”

“Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we're scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don't have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.”

“Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.”

“Health to the ocean means health for us.”

“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”

“When we realize that something as primal as the food that we choose to eat each day makes such an important difference in addressing both global warming and personal health, it empowers us and imbues these choices with meaning. If it's meaningful, then it's sustainable - and a meaningful life is a longer life.”