Quotes About Yellow Fever

#1. Men wanted certainties, not more causes for doubt, and since the discoveries of science perplexed them with strange theories about the earth on which they walked and the bodies they inhabited, they turned with all the more zeal to the firm assurances of religion. Never

C. V. Wedgewood

#2. Daisy offered a mosquito which bit you and gave you yellow fever. 'You turn as yellow as a lemon and then you die,' she said.

Eva Ibbotson

#3. How to spell Aedes aegypti,the world's one-stop, viral-disease-transmitting mosquito: T-R-O-U-B-L-E.

T.K. Naliaka

#4. On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of me and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies. To their skillful and untiring care I may safely say I owe my life.

John James Audubon

#5. I learned the difference between critical thinking and being just plain critical.

Sarah Bessey

#6. My truths are all foreknown,This anguish self-revealed.I'm naked to the bone,With nakedness my shield.

Theodore Roethke

#7. Only mosquito can save Nigeria. Only mosquito can save South Africa. Only mosquito can save Zimbabwe Only mosquito can save Namibia. Only mosquito can save Africa. Only malaria can save Africa. Only yellow fever can save Africa.

Laurie Garrett

#8. I sang a lot as a little girl and entered competitions. I loved singing in choirs, but it was as I got older that I really found my voice.

Annie Lennox

#9. There isn't a single professional sports season now that doesn't go on at least a month too long. Baseball starts in football weather, and football in baseball weather, and basketball overlaps them both.

James Reston Jr.

#10. It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

Marilyn Monroe

#11. But the ignition did, in fact, occur. And it changed everything.

J.R. Ward

#12. The nobility of what humans could be capable of, if only they weren't human.

James Carroll

#13. Eventually I'm going to be too old to be on camera, and I've been doing stand-up a long time.

Jen Kirkman

#14. Science is the discovery of how God does things.

John G. Lake

#15. Nature had found the perfect place to hide the yellow fever virus. It seeded itself and grew in the blood, blooming yellow and running red.

Molly Caldwell Crosby

#16. New dramatic writing has banished conversational dialogue from the stage as a relic of dramaturgy based on conflict and exchange: any story, intrigue or plot that is too neatly tied up is suspect.

Patrice Pavis

#17. Incredibly, just one mosquito species, Aedes aegypti is responsible for the spread of four known different deadly viral diseases to human beings, yet this mosquito has been allowed to infest densely-populated urban centers.

T.K. Naliaka

#18. Aviation constituted a new and possibly decisive element in preventing or fighting a war, and I was in a unique position to observe European aviation - especially in its military aspects.

Charles Lindbergh

#19. Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

Charles Lindbergh

#20. In times of stress and danger such as come about as the result of an epidemic, many tragic and cruel phases of human nature are brought out, as well as many brave and unselfish ones.

William Crawford Gorgas

#21. To me, the most unhappy people in the world are the people ... in Palm Beach- Going to parties every night. Playing golf every afternoon, then bridge. [They have] no purpose.

Richard M. Nixon

#22. Considering myself as the reason for breaking up a friendship and marriage, I contained deep embarrassment inside.

LaQuita Cameron