Health Quotes

Every second, every day, every year, we fail to address demand for reproductive health and family planning services. Lives are lost, and girls' opportunities to thrive and contribute to their country's development shrink. These are real people.

~ Jenny Shipley

Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program.

~ Louise Slaughter

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.

~ Mitt Romney

My health and my family are the core of my being.

~ Jon Bon Jovi

Family, nature and health all go together.

~ Olivia Newton-John

And whether it is equal pay, health care, Social Security, or family leave, this Congress has refused to address issues critical to hard-working American women.

~ Louise Slaughter

Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.

~ Malcolm Fraser

Soaring prescription drug costs have placed a tremendous strain on family budgets. They have also imposed a heavy burden on employers - both public and private - who are struggling to provide affordable health insurance coverage to their workers.

~ Susan Collins

Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century.

~ Kenneth Frampton

We need a new health care architecture that will reduce costs, improve outcomes, and protect vulnerable persons.

~ Jeff Fortenberry

My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.

~ Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.

~ Rick Perry

The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure.

~ Valerie Jarrett

While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos.

~ Eliot Engel

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

~ Jim Rohn

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

~ Thomas Jefferson

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

~ Benjamin Jowett

Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.

~ Ban Ki-Moon

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

~ Johnny Carson

The only secret to food combination is a balance of protein, carbs and fat - they all play a key role in our health.

~ Jorge Cruise

We farm workers are closest to food production. We were the first to recognize the serious health hazards of agriculture pesticides to both consumers and ourselves.

~ César Chávez

Health messages are simply overwhelmed, in volume and in effectiveness, by junk-food ads that often deploy celebrities or cartoon characters to great effect. We may know that eating fruits and vegetables is good for us, but the preponderance of the signals we get - and especially the signals children get - push us in the direction of junk food.

~ Michael Moss

We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which are considered and accepted as bill of rights. These are to be insured to people. So all nations, all societies try to do that.

~ Muhammad Yunus

All those spices and herbs in your spice rack can do more than provide calorie-free, natural flavorings to enhance and make food delicious. They're also an incredible source of antioxidants and help rev up your metabolism and improve your health at the same time.

~ Suzanne Somers

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.

~ Giacomo Casanova

I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.

~ Giacomo Casanova

Being a vegan is pretty easy these days, as almost every town and city has health food stores and vegetarian-friendly restaurants.

~ Moby

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

~ Robert Redford

If a State has reliable scientific information that demonstrates that a warning is needed for a particular food, then in the interest of public health, it should share that information with the FDA and petition for a new national standard.

~ Nathan Deal

Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can't use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation.

~ Bjorn Lomborg

Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights.

~ Gelila Bekele

Priesthood quorums teach and assist their members to attain good health, financial stability, and a year's supply of food and clothing. They also teach their members to be self-reliant and to give their time, talents, and means in behalf of the Church, community, and needy.

~ Joseph B. Wirthlin

A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit, with chrome and booths and Naugahyde and great waitresses. Now, it might not be so great in the health department, but I think diner food is really worth experiencing periodically.

~ David Lynch

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

~ Christopher Hitchens

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

~ Samuel Butler

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

~ Hippocrates

Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.

~ Denis Waitley

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

~ Franklin Pierce Adams

I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, 'Listen. God gave to you the gift to play football. This is your gift from God. If you take care of your health, if you are in good shape all the time, with your gift from God no one will stop you, but you must be prepared.'

~ Pelé

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

~ Samuel Smiles