Michael Schiavo Quotes

#1. Shortly after her feeding tube is removed, Terri Schiavo receives the Catholic ceremony of last rites. Michael Schiavo stays in a room down the hall. He remains at his wife's side throughout the day, except when her immediate family comes to see Terri.

Mark Fuhrman

#2. I think there must be a place inside of us where dreams go and wait their turn.

Sue Monk Kidd

#3. I married my wife because I love her and I want to spend the rest of my life with her.

Michael Schiavo

#4. It's not about the money. This is about Terri. It's not about the Schindlers, it's not about the legislators, it's not about me, it's about what Terri Schiavo wanted.

Michael Schiavo

#5. What they're doing is, they're making the decisions for us. That's what this country is coming down to. They're going to make the decisions for us.

Michael Schiavo

#6. The reason why I've been keeping private for the longest time ever here, I've always wanted to protect my wife's privacy. I don't like - I didn't want to put her picture all over the news. I just wanted to keep her private.

Michael Schiavo

#7. She didn't leave any written instructions. She has verbally expressed her wishes to me and other people.

Michael Schiavo

#8. Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.

Richard Dawkins

#9. And then they sign an affidavit swearing that she's not in a vegetative stage. I'll tell you. That's a doctor you really want; they can look at a picture and make a diagnosis.

Michael Schiavo

#10. Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.

Myrtle Reed

#11. You know, my parents, they raised me to be a fighter.

Michael Schiavo

#12. Make a living will. Talk about it. Death is going to happen to everybody. Write it down. Even if you write it on a piece of paper at home and have your family witness it, you need to write it down.

Michael Schiavo

#13. THE SUBMARINE as a weapon had come a long way by this time, certainly to the point where it killed its own crews only rarely.

Erik Larson

#14. What kind of government is this? This is a human being. This is not right, and I'm telling everybody you better call your congressman, because they're going to run your life.

Michael Schiavo

#15. Forgiveness is a CHOICE, not a feeling.

Joyce Meyer

#16. The essence of the problem is about consumption, recognizing that a society that consumes one-third of the world's resources is unsustainable. This level of consumption requires constant intervention into other people's lands. That's what's going on.

Winona LaDuke

#17. I remember wearing overcoats, hiding in the bushes outside of Abbey Road Studios, waiting for the traffic to clear. As it did, we would drop our overcoats and run out on to the cross walk and strike our poses.

Jack Irons

#18. And they talk about their bona fide doctors. They have a list of doctors that signed affidavits from looking at a picture of Terry. That's where they get their information from, by looking at a picture.

Michael Schiavo

#19. Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature.

Louis Pasteur

#20. I believe in the vows that I took with my wife. Through sickness, in health, for richer or poorer.

Michael Schiavo

#21. I moved on with my life but I still have a big commitment to Terri. I made her a promise.

Michael Schiavo

#22. People make these comments all the time. They talk about this with their loved ones every day. People's feedings - tube feedings - are stopped across this country every day.

Michael Schiavo