Neurodegeneration Quotes & Sayings

Suddenly I blurted out. I love you more than everything in the entire galaxy combined into one potent, delicious piece of gum! — The Harvard Lampoon

Because two people in love don't make a hive mind. Neither should they want to be a hive mind, to think the same, to know the same. It's about being separate and still loving each other, being distinct from each other. One is the violin string one is the bow. — Graham Joyce

Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate. — Libba Bray

Love is the answer. — Rik Mayall

English fondness for France is normally a sort of neutron love: take away the people and leave the buildings standing. — Anthony Lane

We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater. — Les Aspin

The Redwood Tree

My father once told me a story about an old redwood tree - how she stood tall and proud - her sprawling limbs clothed in emerald green. With a smile, he described her as a mere sapling, sheltered by her elders and basking in the safety of the warm, dappled light. But as this tree grew taller, she found herself at the mercy of the cruel wind and the vicious rain. Together, they tore relentlessly at her pretty boughs, until she felt as though her heart would split in two.

After a long, thoughtful pause, my father turned to me and said, "My daughter, one day the same thing will happen to you. And when that time comes, remember the redwood tree. Do not worry about the cruel wind or the vicious rain - but do as that tree did and just keep growing. — Lang Leav

When it comes to work - hurry, hurry, hurry. When it comes to payment - delay, delay, delay. Caste, religion, family background nothing. Talent everything. — Aravind Adiga

I think politicians do great things in the world, but I don't think they're the only ones who can. I don't like all the rhetoric and the finger pointing. — Lauren Bush

Sorrow, anger and resentment look back, worry looks around, while faith, hope, and optimism look to the future. — Dan Miller

Hear me declare with boldness, I am a Christian, — Polycarp

I might have been just as happy to have been a practicing primary-care doctor. But as a medical student, I had interacted with patients suffering from neurodegeneration or acute clinical schizophrenia. It left an indelible mark on my memory. — James Rothman

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war. — John Boyd Orr

When the deaths finally came to light, my elementary school put a strict ban on teachers and staff talking to us about what was then called Everheart's disease, after Micheal Everheart, the first know kid to have died of it. Soon, someone somewhere decided to give it a proper name: Idiopathic Adolescent Acute Neurodegeneration-- IAAN for short. And then it wasn't just Micheal's disease. It was all of ours. — Alexandra Bracken