Top 17 Surgeon General Koop Quotes
#1. In honor of Surgeon General Koop's legacy, we should ensure that the position of surgeon general is protected from political interference, funded appropriately and nominated from the ranks of career public health professionals who merit consideration, as is done in the other uniformed services.
Richard Carmona
#2. A grateful world, nation and cadre of surgeons general who followed in his shadow are forever indebted to Surgeon General Koop's wisdom, fortitude, integrity and selfless service.
Richard Carmona
#3. There are for starters, grandeur and silence, pure water and clean air. There is also the gift of distance ... the chance to stand away from relationships and daily ritual ... and the gift of energy. Wilderness infuses us with its own special brand of energy.
Linn Thomas
#4. This, then, is the freedom for which Christ has set us free: to have the law of Christ engraved on our hearts. His way is the perfect law, which is the law of liberty (James 1:25).
R. R. Reno
#5. No. Nothing could make it easier. You lost what you loved. That was death, here as well as there.
Cornelia Funke
#6. If philosophy has to serve some really noble purpose, it must be more observant than critical towards life.
Raheel Farooq
#7. Everyone wants to be excited by something magical and wondrous - to be reminded of how they once saw the world ...
John Geddes
#8. A mountain had died, its skeleton had been scattered over the ground. Time had aged the mountain; time had killed the mountain-and here lay the mountain's bones.
Vasily Grossman
#9. Know - how is worthless unless guided by know - why and know - when.
Andreas Feininger
#10. As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google's traffic congestion maps.
Carlo Ratti
#11. We find in our children our own selves again, who might be made better than we are.
Cassandra Clare
#13. Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting.
Rem Koolhaas
#14. To be grafted to soul means to be open to the life that pools deep inside you, allowing it to coalesce into a career or other kind of work.
Thomas Moore
#15. It is what people actually did in the stock market that counted - not what they said they were going to do.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#16. Conservatives, please. Let's not duplicate the manias of the Left as we figure out how to deal with Mr. Obama. He is not exactly the anti-Christ, although a disturbing number of people on the Right are convinced he is.
David Horowitz
#17. Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe.
Anne Rice