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Quotes About Lungs

That's baseball, and it's my game. Y' know, you take your worries to the game, and you leave 'em there. You yell like crazy for your guys. It's good for your lungs, gives you a lift, and nobody calls the cops. Pretty girls, lots of 'em.
~ Humphrey Bogart
examination of the lungs shows a frothy white substance," says Dr. Backmann. "This is consistent
~ Unknown
I'll scream! Likely. If not before, certainly during. I expect they'll hear ye at the next farm; you've got good lungs.
~ Diana Gabaldon
When the crop that brought wealth under the banner of Christianity is found to destroy human lungs but trees older than Jesus breathe, it makes me think the meek shall inherit the earth.
~ Unknown
He said he felt like the gut heart and lungs of Africa's interior. He said he felt like the Kongo: "Land of the Panther." He said he felt like "deserting his master," as the Kongo is "prone to do." He said he felt he could dance on a dime.
~ Ishmael Reed
I'm grateful for the doctors that'll be scooping out these lungs and giving me some more life to work with. I'm grateful for the chance to keep being a person.
~ Claire Wineland
A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
~ Unknown
Since the respiratory tract must allow outside air to pass into the innermost recesses of the body, it is extremely well defended. The lungs became the battleground between the invaders and the immune system. Nothing was left standing on that battleground.
~ John M. Barry
Influenza is a viral disease. When it kills, it usually does so in one of two ways: either quickly and directly with a violent viral pneumonia so damaging that it has been compared to burning the lungs; or more slowly and indirectly by stripping the body of defenses, allowing bacteria to invade the lungs and cause a more common and slower-killing bacterial pneumonia.
~ John M. Barry
In 1918 especially, this question of balance played a crucial role in the war between virus and immune system, and between life and death. The virus was often so efficient at invading the lungs that the immune system had to mount a massive response to it. What was killing young adults a few days after the first symptom was not the virus. The killer was the massive immune response itself.
~ John M. Barry
Influenza causes pneumonia either directly, by a massive viral invasion of the lungs, or indirectly—and more commonly—by destroying certain parts of the body's defenses and allowing so-called secondary invaders, bacteria, to infest the lungs virtually unopposed.
~ John M. Barry
This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead.
~ John Green
Thy food is such As hath been belch'd on by infected lungs.
~ William Shakespeare
Singing really oxygenates your blood. You stretch your lungs and take in much more air into them than before. It's really good for your health.
~ Marisa Tomei
Trust me Miki. Nothing cures heartache faster than a bunch of girls singing pop songs badly at the top of thier lungs.
~ Unknown
Ne restait plus que la mélodie asthmatique en ré mineur sifflée par ses tout petits poumons.
~ Mathias Malzieu
The cold was a shock. The cold hurt my lungs, and the harsh wind beating against my skin caused me to shake. I wondered if humans ever went outside. They must have been insane if they did.
~ Matt Haig
Removing eggs and dairy from the diet has been shown to improve asthmatic children's lung function in as few as eight weeks.52
~ Michael Greger
I expelled my dust, the powder of everything I had destroyed with doubt, and he pulled it into his lungs.
~ Miranda July