Quotes About 1918 Influenza

#1. Should we add the 40 to 50 million victims of the 1918 influenza pandemic to the 15 million who were killed in World War I, because the flu virus would not have evolved its virulence if the war hadn't packed so many troops into trenches?

Steven Pinker

#2. And what we know, or think we know, about the universe of space and time is changing very quickly.

Fred Saberhagen

#3. I was raised to farm work.

Abraham Lincoln

#4. For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

Alexandre Dumas

#5. Besides, it somehow helped to imagine that the orders came from somewhere else, somewhere unknowable and irresistible. It was nice to have an attic in which to stack the blame. Friendly

Joe Abercrombie

#6. My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.

James Rainwater

#7. The influenza pandemic of 1918 may well be the greatest scourge ever to afflict humanity, exacting a death toll greater than all the wars of the 20th Century combined. The virus that wreaked this havoc apparently developed in birds, and then jumped to people. In other words, it was avian flu.

David L. Katz

#8. With relief help from Ryne Duren, who had no idea where the ball was going once it left his hand, and consequently scared the living shit out of the batters who had to face him.

Stephen King

#9. I still can't believe I danced with Gene Kelly. How lucky am I that I've been in movies where I've danced with two of the greatest dancers of all time - with Gene Kelly and John Travolta.

Olivia Newton-John

#10. Dreams come from darkness and darkness lives in dreams.

Gemma Newey

#11. Life is a suicide mission.

Orson Scott Card

#12. By our very nature, we are a human paradox. We are a human being. The being is infinite and the human is very finite. We walk around like lightening in a bottle.

Mark Nepo

#13. It takes a lot of selfish time to make music.

Gwen Stefani

#14. I still don't like doing interviews. I hardly do any ... I hope this will be the last one for a long while.

Beth Gibbons

#15. Shut your eyes," said Miss Tanner.
"Oh no," said Miranda, "for then I see worse things ...

Katherine Anne Porter

#16. I think I'm a little more mature than the average guy.

Amar'e Stoudemire

#17. I am content to live it all again And yet again, if it be life to pitch Into the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch.

William Butler Yeats

#18. Do you know what prayer is? It is not begging God for this and that. The first thing we have to do is to get you beggars to quit begging until a little faith moves in your souls.

John G. Lake

#19. I've been truly blessed. I've been a fly on the wall of history. I've been just so many lucky places just by chance and serendipity, and obviously a huge portion of that serendipity had to do with my relationship with the real president, Ronald Reagan.

Arthur Laffer