Vaccinate Quotes & Sayings

Why do people refuse to vaccinate their children against measles or whooping cough? In many cases, because they have never seen measles and have no idea what it might do. — Michael Specter

Praise is the daughter of present power. — Jonathan Swift

As to freedom, it is cherished, it is hard to come by, it is hard to hang on to. But freedom without responsibility is chaos, so to those who push the idea that freedom would allow an individual to do anything, anywhere, at any time, I reject, your freedom ends where my ability to raise my family safely begins. So I would urge every American to vaccinate their children and I would reject any effort to stop vaccinations until someone can show me a scientific reason to do so. — Lindsey Graham

If a vaccine works, then the vaccinators might conceivably set up what's known as ring vaccinations around Ebola hot spots. In this technique, medical workers simply vaccinate everybody in a ring, miles deep, around a focus of a virus. — Richard Preston

People are trying to make decisions about whether they should vaccinate their children or not, which is still a big debate. It's something that is a true fear for people. So, when we were getting into the story, in these first few episodes, and you're seeing these people who are at the top of the CDC, they should have every answer. It's almost like a God complex. — Kyra Zagorsky

Vaccination is a public health issue because influenza is a highly contagious disease. If you don't vaccinate your child, his or her schoolmates are much more likely to become ill. That is why some places (New York, for example) are making the vaccine mandatory for school children. — Michael Specter

I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman. — Dana Plato

When you vaccinate someone, or when you get infected, the microbe is presenting itself to the immune system in a way that the immune system recognizes the important elements of the microbe and makes an immune response, both an antibody response and a cellular response, to ultimately contain the microbe. — Anthony Fauci

I've never seen this level of anger at parents who've chosen not to vaccinate their children. — Paul A. Offit

If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out. — Temple Grandin

Among all of the topics I cover in this book, the choice to vaccinate on schedule is backed by the strongest, clearest, biggest pile of evidence. — Alice Callahan

They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox. — Leo Tolstoy

We're lying ourselves into believing things are untrue, like organic food will solve all our problems, or vitamins will make us healthy, or we don't need to vaccinate our children. — Michael Specter

Grayson. I know you think I'm full of shit, but I knew I loved him the moment we kissed.
Goddamaned it. What am I going to do? And then he stifles a sob with the last shot. — John Green

Throughout the United States, at the dawn of the Progressive era, dozens of laws and regulations were established to empower police officers, public-health officials, and even the armed forces to vaccinate at will, and, if necessary, at gunpoint. — Michael Specter

You don't have to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the country if you have a couple of cases of smallpox cropping up. — Anthony Fauci

Herd immunity is, it turns out, not incredibly easy to understand. It took me quite a bit of reading before I fully grasped it. But understanding herd immunity is essential to understanding why we vaccinate the way we do. — Eula Biss

You no more have the right to risk others by failing to vaccinate than you do by sending your child to school with a hunting knife. Vaccination isn't a private choice but a civic obligation. — Nicholas Kristof

Take responsibility for your life and count solely on yourself — Sunday Adelaja

Be skeptical of everything but closed minded to nothing — Anthony Jones

He doesn't look like the kind of person that could kill anyone? She thought. - Immortal Door — Marion Tucker

Thank you! It's really cool to have a boyfriend who's a medical student."
Gideon grinned. "I swear that's the last time I ever vaccinate anyone. Patients are so ungrateful. — Kerstin Gier

Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes. Before Jonas Salk developed a vaccine for polio that finally worked, he tried two hundred unsuccessful ones. Somebody asked him, "How did it feel to fail two hundred times?" "I never failed two hundred times in my life," Salk replied. "I was taught not to use the word 'failure.' I just discovered two hundred ways how not to vaccinate for polio. — John Ortberg Jr.

Immunity is a public space. And it can be occupied by those who choose not to carry immunity. For some of the mothers I know, a refusal to vaccinate falls under a broader resistance to capitalism. But refusing immunity as a form of civil disobedience bears an unsettling resemblance to the very structure the Occupy movement seems to disrupt
a privileged 1 percent are sheltered from risk while they draw resources from the other 99 percent. — Eula Biss

She'd never been religious. She hadn't allowed grief to send her crawling to the church. — Michael Cunningham

As a parent, the responsible thing to do - if you love your child - is to vaccinate your child. — Melinda Gates

Knowing that all things happen in perfect order does not vaccinate us against pain and suffering. It simply makes us fully responsible for it. — Noah James Hittner

Clearly, love is love, between a man and a woman, a woman and a man, a woman and a woman and a man and a man. — Stevie Wonder

There are times when breakfast seems the one thing worth getting up for ... — Peter De Vries

I think there's a temptation to try to think of people who don't vaccinate as a homogenous community, but I'm not convinced that's true. I'm not even sure that the word 'community' is totally accurate there, you know. — Eula Biss

Why is it that when you wipe up dust its called dusting but when you wipe up a spill its not called spilling? Just something to think about. — Ellen DeGeneres

A nation that can't remember its dead will soon cease to be worth dying for. — P.D. James