Living Kidney Donor Quotes & Sayings

Often jobs are un-turndownable even before you read the script. You go, 'Well, I have to do that.' — Toby Jones

My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch of the girls in the ghetto had to do sewing each day. And if you were found with a book, it was an automatic death penalty. She had gotten hold of a copy of 'Gone With the Wind', and she would take three or four hours out of her sleeping time each night to read. And then, during the hour or so when they were sewing the next day, she would tell them all the story. These girls were risking certain death for a story. And when she told me that story herself, it actually made what I do feel more important. Because giving people stories is not a luxury. It's actually one of the things that you live and die for. — Neil Gaiman

I'm not interested in doing something edgy with a capital E just so everyone knows, 'Oh, OK, now he's showing us he can do edgy.' — Tom Hanks

I would have loved to have cracked America. When I tried, I got homesick. Then, when I was in New York, my nanna died, and I just wanted to come home. — Cilla Black

I have a contract and I refused a lot of opportunities to be the manager of important clubs because I want to stay here. I like this job. I like to be the England manager. — Fabio Capello

The first things to study are form and values. For me, these are the things that are the basics of what is serious in art. — Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

You'll strip in front of a vampire when you don't even know his name?"
"You're right! So what's your name?"
"My answer will be as forthcoming as yours. What do you want it to be?"
"Some kind of name that fits a battle-scarred,overgrown vampire warlord. — Kresley Cole

the U.S., 5,000 people die waiting for a transplant that never comes. Supply and demand. People need donor kidneys to survive, but only a third of all kidney transplants come from living donors and 96% of those are family members. The demand is there, but the supply is limited, not because kidneys are not available, — Robert Thornhill

Living with a single kidney is almost exactly like living with two; the remaining kidney expands to take up the slack. (When kidneys fail, they generally fail together; barring trauma or cancer, there's not much advantage to a backup.) The main risk to the donor is the risk of any surgery. — Virginia Postrel

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive. — Ernest Hemingway,

I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand. — Ty Cobb

And for at least that moment, I wouldn't have traded the hundreds of books I've read for the few I know almost by heart. — Helene Hanff