Quotes about Health

“Television and film seem to love those individuals who want to die. They're less keen to cover the rest of us who might want to live but are struggling to get the health and social care resources to do so.”

“I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I'm not exactly a poster girl for healthy living.”

“I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.”

“My main goal is to stay healthy because when you're injured you realise how lucky you are to have your health.”

“I've been into exercise my whole life, been a runner and been into health and fitness always.”

“If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.”

“Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.”

“I'm sure that the standard of public morality we've helped build will force government in Canada to approve complete health insurance.”

“I was a sickly child, and it wasn't until I was 19 that I realised I was quite a robust, vigorous person. Since then I've taken ill health to be an irritating interruption into what is a fairly reliable stream of good health.”

“I actually worry that we're so mindlessly following the herd on privacy and data being the principle concerns when the actual things that are affecting the felt sense of your life and where your time goes, where your attention goes, where democracy goes, where teen mental health goes, where outrage goes.”

“You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.”

“For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.”

“But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.”

“Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.”

“We live in a world at constant risk of public health emergencies. In our increasingly interconnected world, public health emergencies can affect anyone, anywhere.”

“After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.”

“Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare recipients to get, and keep, jobs.”

“The more easily digestible and refined the carbohydrates, the greater the effect on our health, weight and well-being.”

“Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.”

“We know that the way to decrease unplanned pregnancies and abortions is to make birth control and family planning services accessible and affordable, not micromanage the type of medical information and reproductive health counseling that women around the world receive.”

“And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.”