Health Quotes

I've made a promise to myself to be a 100% healthy person if nothing else.
– Picabo Street
I've declined every congressional benefit I could decline, federal health insurance, the retirement program, the 403(b) program, which I think is overly generous. I've got self-imposed term limits of six terms if I have the privilege to serve that long.
– Scott Rigell
I've been to enough other countries in the world to know what happens when you have socialized single-payer health care. It works. People don't get sick as much. They don't lose their life savings with a catastrophic illness like cancer or AIDS.
– Jello Biafra
I've always enjoyed poor health.
– Taylor Caldwell
I'm very confident my health isn't going to allow me to be a good player, especially in the spring.
– Steve Yzerman
I'm up here in Cleveland tonight and there are a lot of folks who are concerned about it. Twenty-five percent of the people up here get their health care through religious organizations and so that religious freedom issue is very important to them.
– Rob Portman
I'm still healthy as can be.
– Darrell Royal
I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps.
– Carter Burwell
I'm on a health kick! I'm drawn to cheeseburgers, so I've got to just try and keep it on an even keel.
– Emily Blunt
I'm not into animal rights. I'm only into animal welfare and health. I've been with the Morris Animal Foundation since the '70s. We're a health organization. We fund campaign health studies for dogs, cats, lizards and wildlife. I've worked with the L.A. Zoo for about the same length of time. I get my animal fixes!
– Betty White
I'm happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was - but it's almost impossible for a playwright in the U.S. to make a living. You can have a play, like I did with 'Angels,' and it still generates income for me, but it's not enough for me to live on and have health insurance.
– Tony Kushner
I'm exhausted trying to stay healthy.
– Steve Yzerman
I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.
– Zach Braff
I'm as obsessive with health as I was with destruction.
– Dave Navarro
I'm always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing on animals, and the health benefits of being vegan, although I'm probably not the best person to be talking about the latter at the moment.
– Daniel Johns
I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.
– Mandy Patinkin
I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business.
– Diana Ross
I'm a big proponent of having a mental health component go along with whatever the physical realities are.
– Alan Thicke
I'm 58 years old and I just went through 8 back surgeries. They started cutting on me in February 2009, and I was basically bed ridden for almost two years. I got a real dose of reality that if you don't have your health, you don't have anything.
– Hulk Hogan
I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.
– Charles Schumer
I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.
– Daniel Baldwin
I would prefer a public option that would be a competitive option that would allow people to buy into a Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, which is a series of private plans.
– Amy Klobuchar
I would like to be as fit as I've always been. I've been blessed with good health, I've been blessed with stamina. Particularly for those great classical roles, you need an Olympian stamina. I, fortunately, have that.
– Derek Jacobi
I work very hard on my health, and I think about it, of course, like I've never thought before.
– Ann Richards
I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.
– Tony Shalhoub
I was for civil unions and believed strongly that the flow of benefits and protections that would be provided in a civil union for same-sex couples, the decisions that have to be made, when health hardships are faced, when economic hardships are faced, I wanted all of those protections. I never strayed from them.
– Harold Ford
I want to thank the efforts of the American Public Health Association and its 200-plus partners who have organized events around the Nation that serve to raise everyone's awareness of the need to improve public health.
– Lois Capps
I want to encourage everyone to be proactive with their health and get checked out.
– Giuliana Rancic
I want to assure your excellency that I am occupying myself permanently and jointly with my team to achieve a solution as soon as possible to this crisis, the principal objective being the safeguarding of the health and life of those who are inside.
– Alberto Fujimori
I used to drink tons of caffeine. Now I make smoothies with frozen berries and Green Vibrance health powder.
– Leighton Meester
I understand that in these difficult economic times, the potential for any additional expense is not welcomed by American businesses. But in the long run, the health insurance reform law promises to cut health-care costs for U.S. businesses, not expand them.
– Gary Locke
I turned into a workaholic to the point of where my health was in jeopardy.
– Tab Hunter
I try to stay positive by focusing on how much I'll appreciate my health if I get better.
– Daniel Johns
I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me.
– David Alan Grier
I think the thing that the American people want is for the divisive debate on health care to stop.
– Jacob Lew
I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.
– Bell Hooks
I think the first and principle objective is to repeal Obamacare before it does lasting, fundamental damage to our health care system, to our individual liberty, to the relationship each of us has with his or her doctor.
– Ted Cruz
I think the British people are very, very attached to the idea that the health service is free at the point of use. But there is no reason why every doctor, nurse and teacher in this country has to be employed by the state.
– George Osborne
I think that we have a number of different health care challenges in our country, and certainly addressing the uninsured is one, and the second is making sure that those with health insurance actually get the care that they assume they'll have available to them if they get sick.
– Debbie Stabenow
I think that the millions and millions of young Americans, young Americans, who have health care today, who wouldn't have had it if the president hadn't acted are better off.
– David Axelrod
I think that some of our soldiers die in the battlefield and some come home to bad health and die prematurely, just by the nature of the kind of business they're in.
– Christopher Shays
I think that everyone is saying all kinds of things about 'rich.' Not only am I rich from doing some of things I've been able to do, but I'm rich in spirit. I'm rich in health. I'm rich in every way possible.
– NeNe Leakes
I think it's time to have a celebration of life and renew our vows. And this time we're going to write the vows because they're going to mean a lot more. We certainly put the 'in sickness and in health' vow to the test the last year and half.
– Bill Rancic
I think it's important that, as a matter of course, the brain and spinal column were removed from this cow, and that would be the material that would cause concern in terms of human health. And therefore we're confident in the safety of the food supply.
– Ann Veneman
I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
– Karl Lagerfeld
I think health is another exceedingly important thing.
– Joan Collins
I think first and foremost everybody should understand that Canadians are strongly committed to the system of universal health insurance, to the principle that your ability to pay does not determine your access to critical medical service.
– Stephen Harper
I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one that's easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.
– Jimmy Carter
I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'
– Nancy Pelosi
I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker.
– Kamisese Mara
I support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that we can afford as a country. I have people and friends closing down their businesses because of Obamacare.
– Donald Trump
I stand before you a totally healthy person.
– Melissa Etheridge
I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I'm not exactly a poster girl for healthy living.
– Lexa Doig
I should do something about the cigarettes I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.
– Charles Kennedy
I retire with a smile on my face, in good health, and ready to spend autumns at my kids' games instead of my own. I'm excited to start the next chapter of my life.
– Drew Bledsoe
I remember the first pangs of stress arriving at the end of school. Once I graduated I had to get a full-time job, worry about health insurance, saving money, paying rent - things I'd never thought about before.
– Ezra Koenig
I recently formed a foundation to raise awareness for prostate cancer. I feel it's very necessary that men be more aware about prostate cancer and their health in general.
– Herbie Mann
I received free health care.
– J. K. Rowling
I really believe the only way to stay healthy is to eat properly, get your rest and exercise. If you don't exercise and do the other two, I still don't think it's going to help you that much.
– Mike Ditka
I never want to try to be a spokesperson for health and wellness because I most definitely am not the most in shape person in the world.
– Ruben Studdard
I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and education, and I'd dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum.
– Karen Duffy
I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goals.
– Bonnie Blair
I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.
– Jesse Jackson
I look forward to working with our leadership team to advance the causes of smaller government, lower taxes, eliminating terrorism, and providing affordable health care, among other issues.
– Howard Coble
I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges.
– Fred Upton
I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture.
– Patricia Ireland
I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.
– George McGovern
I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind. Health to the ocean means health for us.
– Sylvia Earle
I have worked to expand the health care debate beyond the current for-profit system, to include a public option and an amendment to free the states to pursue single payer.
– Dennis Kucinich
I have to say that in this particular cow that we're dealing with, those parts of the cow were removed, and so we don't think there's any risk or very negligible risk to human health with this particular incident.
– Ann Veneman
I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.
– Hedy Lamarr
I have no regrets. I've got my health.
– Naomi Campbell
I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate.
– Kathleen Turner
I have a lot of health anxiety.
– Charlie Kaufman
I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it.
– Lorna Luft
I have a computer screen near my seat where I monitor the overall health of the vehicle and pick up any problems that might be occurring early on or once we see any kind of a malfunction or anything unusual that's happening, we can look at the data and figure out what that is.
– Laurel Clark
I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
– Fran Drescher
I had all kinds of food issues, including health concerns and weight concerns.
– Sally Schneider
I fully support a national health care program for the U.S.
– Andrew Weil
I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'
– Lauren Bacall
I eat really healthy, and if I'm tired, I take a nap.
– Casper Van Dien
I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
– Maggie Q
I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell.
– Richard Russo
I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find health care.
– Ted Cruz
I don't think it should be a surprise when we're talking about energy and trying to have more home-grown energy, be less reliant on foreign oil when you look at our health care that we're trying to get more affordable health care, that these are going to create major debates in this country and be somewhat polarizing.
– Amy Klobuchar
I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.
– Adam Carolla
I don't think a director should have any kids. I don't even think it's good for your physical health. Even guys in their 30s look exhausted because directors never get enough sleep. What I do is stressful enough.
– Tom Berenger
I don't know of a Democrat - whether they're a conservative, a centrist or a liberal Democrat - that doesn't think that it's important to have quality jobs that pay decent wages so that families can support themselves, so that they can have the dignity of being able to afford health care, put money aside for pension, buy a home.
– Tom Vilsack
I don't know if there is a Democrat who necessarily doesn't believe health care is a right instead of privilege. There is a significant between us and the Republican Party on that issue.
– Tom Vilsack
I do see women voters shifting to the Republican Party and doing so significantly. And the issue that's doing this is the fear the federal government will prevail in making the Affordable Health Care Act permanent law and how that will hurt small businesses.
– Cathy McMorris
I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.
– Natalie Imbruglia
I can support co-ops if they want to do it as we've known co-ops in America for 150 years - where they serve the purposes of the consuming public, whether it's health care or whether it's co-ops as we know them in the Midwest, providing electricity or to sell supplies to farmer.
– Chuck Grassley
I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston.
– Thomas Menino
I believe you need scientific proof that something works before you entrust your health to it.
– Britt Ekland
I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance and creating meaningful competition for health care services.
– Amy Klobuchar
I believe we all agree that, for the health of Kansas, nothing is more important than education.
– Kathleen Sebelius
I believe the most important aspect of Medicare is not the structure of the program but the guarantee to all Americans that they will have high quality health care as they get older.
– Ron Wyden
I believe that whether you love your job or hate your job, get laid off or are just in-between jobs, you deserve health care that can never be taken away.
– Ron Wyden
I believe that stress is a factor in any bad health.
– Christopher Shays
I believe that music in itself heals and that everything is about the power of the mind. I thought if you are happy, you don't get ill. Your health is in your head. When you are satisfied with your work, you don't get ill.
– Andre Rieu