Mortality Rate Quotes

#1. My dad was an agent for Met Life. In the '50s, I remember the mortality rate was something like - you had - 58 was the average age. Then it was moved up to 62, and then 65, 68.

Willard Scott

#2. I'm very happy for the Contreras family. They're out. Now they've got a chance to experience life the way I did as a kid. You know, his kids are going to have a real chance in life now, and the same way that I had it.

Rafael Palmeiro

#3. Love has a way of making us stupid, Will Henry. It blinds us to certain blatant realities, in this case the spectacularly high mortality rate among monstrumologists. Rarely do we live past forty - my father and von Helrung being the exceptions.

Rick Yancey

#4. If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother Nature's Survival Course.

William S. Burroughs

#5. And while I'm sure they're very admirable and brave and all the rest of it, I don't personally fancy the mortality rate -

J.K. Rowling

#6. Maternal mortality health is a very sensitive indicator. All you need to look at is a country's maternal mortality rate. That is a surrogate for whether the country's health system is functioning. If it works for women, I'm sure it will work for men.

Margaret Chan

#7. Last year the [harp seal] pup mortality rate was 100 percent in parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Brian Skerry

#8. Never eliminate anyone from the chain of your success. Jesus Never Discriminated. That is why He was a Double Diamond.

Mike Murdock

#9. If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.

S. Jay Olshansky

#10. Child mortality [since 2000 is] down by 2.65 million a year. That's a rate of 7,256 children's lives saved each day ... It drives me nuts that most people don't seem to know this news.

Edward De Bono

#11. On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

Chuck Palahniuk

#12. What we need are lots of girls who aren't as good as us, who'll treat us with the proper respect and reverance.

David Norwood

#13. One true friend was worth more than fifty frenemies who laughed at my engagement ring. Bitches

Nicole Williams

#14. One must take draconian measures of demographic reduction against the will of the populations. Reducing the birth rate has proved to be impossible or insufficient. One must therefore increase the mortality rate. How? By natural means. Famine and sickness

Robert McNamara

#15. For starters, would your soul mate even still be alive? A hundred billion or so humans have ever lived, but only seven billion are alive now (which gives the human condition a 93 percent mortality rate). If we were all paired up at random, 90 percent of our soul mates would be long dead.

Randall Munroe

#16. Busyness is not a reason for not getting other things done. It is an excuse for not claiming your true priorities.

Alan Cohen

#17. The mortality rate among sea horses is not to be believed. Because the difference between a dead sea horse and a living sea horse is imperceptible, selling dead sea horses would make a very good pet store scam.

Sloane Crosley

#18. They're kind of baby steps. We haven't made any measurable impact on the mortality rate or survival of this disease.

James Young

#19. Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

R.D. Laing

#20. Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback

J.K. Rowling

#21. In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to use the phrase of Bunyan 'the captain of the men of death.'

William Osler

#22. Eating wheat, like ice climbing, mountain boarding, and bungee jumping, is an extreme sport. It is the only common food that carries its own long-term mortality rate.

William Davis

#23. Our economic strength at home is key to our diplomatic and military strength abroad. We should be investing far more in education as well as our technological and economic development so that we have the resources to support our foreign policy.

Ruben Gallego

#24. I'm a really good swimmer.

Will Ferrell

#25. The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn't come out right, you've got to throw four lines away and figure out a whole new way to attack the problem. So the mortality rate is terrific.

Dr. Seuss

#26. Connor hands shiny black guns to both me and Peter.
I'm pretty sure that if the best description of the weapon I can come up with is black and shiny, then I probably shouldn't be handling it.

Jamie Canosa

#27. Fun fact about life or death fights between capes. You start letting your enemies make the first move, your mortality rate triples.

Wildbow

#28. Surgery for early stage non-small cell lung cancer is standard treatment and is likely curative. Yet, fewer blacks than whites undergo surgery for the disease, leading to a higher mortality rate among blacks with lung cancer,

Henry Ford

#29. The only value of ideology is to stop things becoming showbiz.

Brian Eno

#30. Jesus told us to make disciples, not decisions.

John Pereira

#31. Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation.

Alcee Hastings

#32. As human beings, we have a terminal disease called mortality. The current death rate is 100 percent.

Randy Alcorn