Quotes about Health

“Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.”

“During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development.”

“Health consists with temperance alone.”

“I had the worst birthday party ever when I was a child because my parents hired a pony to give rides. And these ponies are never in good health. But this one dropped dead. It just wasn't much fun after that. One kid would sit on him and the rest of us would drag him around.”

“Health messages are simply overwhelmed, in volume and in effectiveness, by junk-food ads that often deploy celebrities or cartoon characters to great effect. We may know that eating fruits and vegetables is good for us, but the preponderance of the signals we get - and especially the signals children get - push us in the direction of junk food.”

“Political corruption is eating our democracy out from the inside. Most Americans know that. But democratic and economic health can't be easily disentangled.”

“My health and my family are the core of my being.”

“Health care should be a right; it should never be a privilege. We should have Medicare for all in this country.”

“High-quality early-childhood programs and health coverage have expanded, and the number of mentoring relationships for at-risk youth has risen dramatically. That progress is encouraging, but it's not evenly distributed.”

“It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.”

“The best way not to encounter America's health care system is not to have to encounter it.”

“I have long understood that climate change is not only an environmental issue - it is a humanitarian, economic, health, and justice issue as well.”

“Loneliness is devastating our mental and physical health and, at its worst, is killing us. Yet thankfully, unlike some conditions, we can easily cure it. We just need the will.”

“Amaranth, the world's most nutritious grain, is available from health food stores.”

“Walking is magic. Can't recommend it highly enough. I read that Plato and Aristotle did much of their brilliant thinking together while ambulating. The movement, the meditation, the health of the blood pumping, and the rhythm of footsteps... this is a primal way to connect with one's deeper self.”

“The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market.”

“We take our kids for physical vaccinations, dental exams, eye checkups. When do we think to take our - our son or daughter for a mental health checkup?”

“Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.”

“Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.”

“The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.”

“We can build wealth in all our communities, value public education, plan for our neighborhoods, invest in housing we can afford and transportation that serves everyone, truly fund public health for safety and healing, and deliver on a city Green New Deal for clean air and water, healthy homes, and the brightest future for our children.”