Quotes About Transplants

#1. Am I R&B because I'm black? Am I pop because I have a song called 'Milkshake'? Or can I just be who the hell I am? Good Lord, people make it seem like we're doing heart transplants here, but we're just making music!

Kelis

#2. Go to it. Be bold. Be true. Be kind. Rotate your tires. Don't drink so much. There aren't going to be enough liver transplants to go around.

Richard Russo

#3. We ate the same foods, watched the same sports, and practiced the same religion. That's why I felt so much kinship with those people at the courthouse: They were hillbilly transplants in one way or another, just like me.

J.D. Vance

#4. Unfortunately, beer was only a short-term answer. And head transplants had yet to be approved by the FDA.

J.R. Ward

#5. People who live through transplants or disasters like Sept. 11 are survivors.

Geraldine Ferraro

#6. And then there's the way that people come here, earnest and full of dreams, believing that they can make a difference. That's the thing about DC - people are always leaving but that makes space for the new transplants, the crowds that keep flooding in, full of energy and wonder.

Jennifer Close

#7. Like most men, I can't say I am thrilled my hair's falling out, but then, if I really cared, I suppose I would wear a wig, get transplants, or start taking special pills, so I am obviously just putting up with it.

Robert Webb

#8. were her kids. But the drugs and the late-night fighting revealed troubles that too many hillbilly transplants knew too well. Confronted with such a realization of her own family's struggle, Mamaw

J.D. Vance

#9. When you're doing kidney transplants, you have to find out who can exchange kidneys with whom, doing blood tests to make sure it's true. You can't just work on the preliminary data. Then you have to organize the logistics.

Alvin E. Roth

#10. I journeyed alone for almost ten years before I found home. Adoptions are like very delicate gardening with transplants and grafts. Mine took hold, rooted, and bloomed, even though there were inevitable adjustments to the new soil and climate. Yet I have not forgotten where my roots started.

Ashley Rhodes-Courter

#11. Borody claims to have used fecal transplants to effectively cure people who were suffering from ulcerative colitis - which, he says, was

Steven D. Levitt

#12. People who gentrify are usually new transplants to a city, changing it to suit their particular cultural needs and whims.

Annalee Newitz

#13. I believe for some high-technology medicine, like transplants and kidney dialysis, age should be a consideration in the delivery of that technology. In a world of limited resources, we have a larger duty to a 10-year-old than to a 90-year-old.

Richard Lamm

#14. Kidney transplants seem so routine now. But the first one was like Lindbergh's flight across the ocean.

Joseph Murray

#15. You only have to bat 1.000 in two things-flying and heart transplants. Everything else, you can go four in five.

Beano Cook

#16. The Wright brothers' first flight was shorter than a Boeing 747's wing span. We've just begun with heart transplants.

C. Walton Lillehei

#17. Well, I know how the system works. I know that there's something called the MELD system, which is nationwide. There are zones as far as evaluation of need for liver transplants.

Pat Summerall

#18. As I got older, I had more experience with borders. Some literal - living in the dramatically blue misty mountains on the line between North Carolina and Tennessee, and living in California - home to expats, transplants, and refugees from both sides of innumerable borders.

Tim Pratt

#19. Leaving the feasibility of testicular transplants alone for the moment, she said, "It was mostly my mistake.

Teri Anne Stanley

#20. While it is true that many hep C victims became infected through blood transfusions or organ transplants or in other innocent ways, mine was contracted during my college years, when I showed as much care for my personal health as your average suicide bomber.

Gene Weingarten

#21. Spine transplants are what we really need to take Reagan on.

Patricia Schroeder

#22. Journalists sometimes speculate about "brain transplants" when they really should be calling them "body transplants," because, as the philosopher Dan Dennett has noted, this is the one transplant operation in which it is better to be the donor than the recipient.

Steven Pinker

#23. I want to plug back into the hip-hop audience. Whether it be fans who grew up watching 'Yo!', or people who have become familiar with the culture via the Internet.

Fab Five Freddy

#24. This feels good, being back in Michigan ... You know, the trees are the right height.

Mitt Romney

#25. If being a hero is a matter of knowing your cues, like the fairy tale said, he'd missed his.

Lev Grossman

#26. As a journalist, you sort of grind away, taking rejections as they come, building on whatever advances you've achieved.

Robert Draper

#27. Pittsburgh did not smell of mayonnaise that day.

Sandra Staas

#28. Exercise is the single most powerful tool you have to optimize your brain function ... exercise has a profound impact on cognitive abilities and mental health. It is simply one of the best treatments we have for most psychiatric problems.

John Ratey

#29. Part of us did die. Literally - that tissue on your face, the part they removed. It died. And you can't recover from any kind of death without mourning it.

Alyssa B. Sheinmel

#30. I could do nice, but it's just not as much fun. Being nice isn't my biggest goal in life. I'm trying to be honest about who I am, and that's not always nice. I'm not always the world's cheerleader.

Sharon Stone

#31. I'm a little distracted by this English French American Boy Masterpiece.

Stephanie Perkins

#32. The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except that the longing isn't really in the whistle - it is in you.

Meindert DeJong

#33. Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

George Eliot