Burkitt's Quotes

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

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#2. In order to understand the dance one must be still. And in order to truly understand stillness one must dance.

Rumi

#3. The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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

Denis Parsons Burkitt

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

Denis Parsons Burkitt

#6. Why is it I only get to see you with your shirt off when you're hurt?

Kady Cross

#7. God cannot be held to the narrowness of literal and materialistic interpretations, nor measured by Human measurements, for His days are eons, and a thousand ages of our time are like an evening to Him.

Margaret Atwood

#8. For if light had a sound, it was that laugh.

Julie Anne Long

#9. If employees need to stay late in order to curry favor with the boss, what motivation do they have to get work done during normal business hours? After all, they can put in the requisite 'face time' whether they are surfing the Internet or analyzing customer data.

Robert Pozen

#10. I don't normally watch myself on the telly.

Frank Bruno

#11. Children will learn to do what they want to learn to do.

Sugata Mitra

#12. The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, "bread-bread-fame" or "fame-fame-bread.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#13. 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

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

Denis Parsons Burkitt

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

Denis Parsons Burkitt

#16. 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

#17. Like a mermaid rising from an ocean of paper, the girl emerged across the room.

Brian Selznick

#18. I think I gave Alec a complex about what kind of fighter he was, just because he wanted to live.

Cassandra Clare

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. Only the two of us together flying high upon the wings of love.

Jeffrey Osborne

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

William Burkitt

#24. 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