Burkitt Quotes

#1. An Irish surgeon, Denis Burkitt, discovered an aggressive form of lymphoma - now called Burkitt's lymphoma -

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#2. America is a constipated nation ... If you pass small stools, you have to have large hospitals.

Denis Parsons Burkitt

#3. Diseases can rarely be eliminated through early diagnosis or good treatment, but prevention can eliminate disease.

Denis Parsons Burkitt

#4. The only way we are going to reduce disease, is to go backward to the diets and lifestyles of our ancestors.

Denis Parsons Burkitt

#5. Women, are a map, Avik. You've got to understand their longitude, and how much latitude you can take.

Walter Russell

#6. An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation.

Bryan Stevenson

#7. Everyone needs deadlines. Even the beavers. They loaf around all summer, but when they are faced with the winter deadline, they work like fury. If we didn't have deadlines, we'd stagnate.

Walt Disney Company

#8. The thing with brothers is, you're supposed to take turns being the keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the brother who is kept.

Orson Scott Card

#9. When people say "clean as a whistle", they forget that a whistle is full of spit.

George Carlin

#10. I'm never really upset when a person lies because I don't place much value in truths. When you look at the grand design, you realize that there are no truths, only stories. In other words, the only truth is that we are all stories. Lies are just part of the story that we tell.

Lionel Suggs

#11. If people are constantly falling off a cliff, you could place ambulances under the cliff or build a fence on the top of the cliff. We are placing all too many ambulances under the cliff.

Denis Parsons Burkitt

#12. It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than to read a lot and ponder a little.

Denis Parsons Burkitt

#13. Speak not in high commendation of any man to his face, nor censure any man behind his back; but if thou knowest anything good of him, tell it unto others; if anything ill, tell it privately and prudently to himself.

William Burkitt

#14. God made this country for us," he wrote to Governor Grey. "If it were a whale, we might slice it in half. But it cannot be sliced. We will have to fight for the land that lies between us." Governor

Susan Wise Bauer

#15. Western doctors are like poor plumbers. They treat a splashing tube by cleaning up the water. These plumbers are extremely apt at drying up the water, constantly inventing new, expensive, and refined methods of drying up water. Somebody should teach them how to close the tap.

Denis Parsons Burkitt

#16. The frying pan you should give to your enemy. Food should not be prepared in fat. Our bodies are adapted to a stone age diet of roots and vegetables.

Denis Parsons Burkitt

#17. We do not want an expanding struggle with consequences, that no one can perceive, nor will we bluster or bully or flaunt our power, but we will not surrender and we will not retreat, for
behind our American pledge lies the determination and resources, I believe, of all of the American nation.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#18. That there are three persons, yet but one God, that do bear witness to the divinity of Christ, and of the plenteous redemption wrought by him

William Burkitt

#19. Gifts are as gold that adorns the temple; grace is like the temple that sanctifies the gold.

William Burkitt

#20. Societies that eat unrefined foods produce large stools and build small hospitals; societies that eat fiber-depleted foods produce small stools and build large hospitals.

Denis Parsons Burkitt