Denis Parsons Burkitt Quotes

#1. 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

#2. There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.

Barbara Kingsolver

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Denis Parsons Burkitt

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

Denis Parsons Burkitt

#7. Once you get to the plate, you have two options: You either quit, or you try to hit the ball.

Katie Uhlaender

#8. 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.

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#9. Sometimes you choose the wrong actor, he could be the best actor ever, but hes not cast in the right part then it doesnt work.

Sophie Marceau

#10. One thing is sure: the Sagrada Familia is the first Catholic temple whose bacon was ever saved by Shinto tourism. Not even Gaudi, who believed in miracles, could have forseen that.

Robert Hughes

#11. Making a television show is not like making Coca-Cola or Bacardi rum. The human element in our business prevents us from finding a successful formula every time.

Desi Arnaz

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

Denis Parsons Burkitt

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

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#14. It is as much of a mistake to underestimate yourself as to overestimate yourself.

Christie Golden