Disease Eradication Quotes

#1. Malaria-hosting mosquitoes will not wait politely during their most active evening feeding hours for people to go to bed under mosquito nets.

T.K. Naliaka

#2. Stay with me always, my sweet, my love . . . my Claire.

Teresa Medeiros

#3. How to spell Aedes aegypti,the world's one-stop, viral-disease-transmitting mosquito: T-R-O-U-B-L-E.

T.K. Naliaka

#4. It's when the 'international community' expresses 'concern' about your 'situation' that your situation is well and truly fucked.

Michael D. Weiss

#5. His was the strong soul, gentle, but tempered with fire, fervent, heroic and good, the helper and friend of mankind. It is such as he who make progress possible.

Thomas W. Martin

#6. If we accept the logic of the Declaration, reverence for God is not just a matter of religious faith, it is the foundation of justice and citizenship in our republic.

Alan Keyes

#7. She was one of those people who could not say if one note was lower or higher than another. This was no less a disability and misfortune than a clubfoot or a harelip ...

Ian McEwan

#8. She put her head down on the table and cried all the tears that she knew she should have cried in the past year and a half. But they weren't ready then, they were now.

Maeve Binchy

#9. It's not that easy living with malaria. The reality of the high annual death toll should make that very obvious.

T.K. Naliaka

#10. The captain glared at him. The sergeant put on the poker face that has been handed down from NCO to NCO ever since one protoamphibian told another, lower-ranking protoamphibian to muster a squad of newts and Take That Beach.

Terry Pratchett

#11. The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm.

Jimmy Carter

#12. Shovels aren't very glamorous, but they've been liberating entire communities from malaria for the past 5,000 years.

T.K. Naliaka

#13. Your everyday normal behavior has a lot to do with the results in your life. If you're not happy with these results, something has to change. NOTHING MUCH IN YOUR LIFE WILL CHANGE, UNTIL YOU DO!

Jack Canfield

#14. Preferring steady progress, slow and imperfect, is a good philosophy for the defeated.

Fred Lowe Soper

#15. Health and healing are about more than the eradication of disease. Health is related to wholeness and holy-knowing who we are and how we are connected with the world around us.

Larry Dossey

#16. Whether you realize it or not, you have the power to be successful.

David Cottrell

#17. The year I was born, 1955, the first big disease-eradication program in the world was declared for malaria. After about a decade of work, they realized that, at least in the tropical areas, they did not have the tools to get it done.

Bill Gates

#18. I suppose it hacks me off sometimes when people go on about all the other stuff, because I have really worked hard at my game, and I've been incredibly dedicated in getting myself fit, and getting my game right.

Jamie Redknapp

#19. The fox when it sees a flock of herons or magpies or birds of that kind, suddenly flings himself on the ground with his mouth open to look as he were dead; and these birds want to peck at his tongue, and he bites off their heads.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#20. Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.

Horace

#21. Two motorcycles rumble in behind me and park in open spots. It's Pigpen and Dust. They're part of the volunteers tailing me and Violet until we're safe.

Katie McGarry

#22. How much ... did the volume of disease in a nation account for its spirit? If so, the eradication of sickness, as far as it was possible, was a responsibility a democracy must assume for its people.

Alice Tisdale Hobart

#23. Rainy season should fill us with joy, not malaria parasites.

T.K. Naliaka

#24. Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones.

Warren Buffett

#25. Eradication of microbial disease is a will-o'-the-wisp; pursuing it leads into a morass of hazy biological concepts and half truths.

Rene Dubos