Quotes About Kidney Stones

#1. It started last year, during the summer. I went to the doctor and they found out it was kidney stones, so they had surgery done to help get those out and to pass them ... More just kept coming in. So I had all together before the last show ... I had like five surgeries.

Phillip Phillips

#2. I used to jog but it's bad for the knees. Too much beta carotene turns you orange, too much calcium gives you kidney stones. Health kills.

Margaret Atwood

#3. Who, like Crozier, would rather have his kidney stones removed with a spoon than be forced to suffer sermons -

Dan Simmons

#4. I listen to, like, funky Chicago blues. I love blues, but I love the funky, happy blues. There's a song about pretty much everything, including kidney stones, believe it or not. So there's something there for whatever you happen to be suffering, you know?

Sinead O'Connor

#5. One must be reasonable in one's demands on life. For myself, all that I ask is: (1) accurate information; (2) coherent knowledge; (3) deep understanding; (4) infinite loving wisdom; (5) no more kidney stones, please.

Edward Abbey

#6. The Atlanta Hawks are a bunch of guys who would prefer to pass kidney stones than pass a basketball.

Bob Weiss

#7. When we consume vastly more protein than we need, our kidneys struggle to process it, resulting in protein in the urine. Too much protein from meat may also contribute to kidney stones.

Bee Wilson

#8. It just seems to me there's enough pain in the world - and not nearly enough pleasure. I guess once you've had enough kidney stones, hot candle wax on the nipples seems less appealing.

Katherine Center

#9. Among the worst things about growing old is the loss of those irreplaceable friends who added richness and depth to your life.

Pat Conroy

#10. Of course we desire education and we think it is a good thing, but you don't have to have education in order to know that you want certain fundamental rights, you have got aspirations, you have got acclaims. It has nothing to do with education whatsoever.

Nelson Mandela

#11. Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it goes back to slavery. And I'm sure my ancestors go all the way back to Africa, but I feel more of an affinity for America than I do for Africa. I'm a black man in America.

Herman Cain

#12. Life is singing also in the sand crunching under the slow and heavy steps of the guards, when we know how to listen to it.

Rosa Luxemburg

#13. I'm very well known in the industry and relatively well known by people who are aficionados and what not, but outside of that - no.

Ben Mendelsohn

#14. As an actor in-between jobs, it can be hard to stay motivated when you feel like you future is always in someone else's hands. You are always waiting for someone to look at you and say "YES."

Benjamin Stone

#15. How do you create something unknown?

Sam Messer

#16. One of my goals is to inspire everyone I meet to become a better person.

George Foreman

#17. The myth suggests to us that a "good job" will offer us ample money, a social life, status and work which we will find "rewarding." It's actually astonishing how little we pause to reflect on these terms when at school or college.

Tom Hodgkinson

#18. Already I know it will hurt this is the hurt country

Eileen Myles

#19. -"I am really starting to dislike you."
-"You know what they say: dislike is akin to lust."
-"That's not the expression."
-"It is in my world. You wouldn't be the first one to tell me you hate me only to rip my clothes off and ride me like a wild cowgirl.

Eve Langlais

#20. Love is in the giver, not the gift.

William Sloane Coffin

#21. Night, having Sleep, the brother of Death.

Hesiod

#22. Don't forget the little people, even when you want to.

Jesse Petersen