Quotes About Germs

Grow the lawn and mow the lawn always keep the TV on, brush your teeth and kill the germs, poison apples, poison worms.

Give me something about bacteria. Give me something that won't make me feel so inferior

Please do not close the window, Indy, fresh air kills germs.' 'Hypothermia,' said Indigo, not obeying, 'kills people. And anyway, Rose's lips are going blue.

Her mother's theory about germs was that one had to ingest and touch as many as possible in order to build up a healthy immunity.

Money spread like germs, get sick na.

Fighting the Taliban and the various radical organizations on the front lines is like adding a Band-Aid to a cut, it may stop the bleeding but unless you clean it with antiseptic, the germs stay and multiply.

no hay civilización que no entrañe un cierto número de actos bárbaros y no hay barbarie que no contenga algún germen de civilización.

As boiling patients and surgeons was not practical, Lister had to find some other way to safely eliminate germs on all surfaces. He settled on carbolic acid, a product made from coal tar that had been used successfully to treat stinking city drains and that had already been tried as a dressing on surgical wounds, without very positive results. Lister persevered and met with success in the case of an eleven-year-old boy who came to the Royal Infirmary with a compound fracture of the leg.

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.

she took pictures of germs, viruses, and people reacting to germs and viruses. On weekends, for extra money, she photographed weddings, which really wasn't that much of a stretch

Where germs go? Sunrise, I said. Poof. Butter's voice sounded bewildered. Vampire germs? The tiny capes are a dead giveaway.

the average American household is in more danger from chemical germ-killers than from germs.

Dr. Hunter insisted on the benefit of fresh air, and Mrs. Fraser agreed with this because of the ether fumes but kept talking about something she called germs, worrying that these would come in through the window and contaminate her "surgical field." She speaks as though she views it as a battleground, he thought, but then looked closely at her face and realized that indeed she did.

Kisses are not kisses unless they're tasted. Kisses blown are kisses wasted. kisses spread germs & germs are hated. but you can kiss me baby I'm vaccinated.

Dead men may envy living mites in cheese, Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys, And subdivide, and never come to death.

The elderly tend to get fewer colds than kids, even though they have a weakened immune system. This happens because our systems develop defenses against antigens; we acquire antibodies to the germs we've defeated in the past (stored in plasma cells in your bone marrow, as mentioned earlier in Chapter 6), and destroy those antigens and viruses before they can multiply and cause that illness.

Thankfully, a number of foods may help maintain your immunity to keep the germs at bay. First up is chlorella, a single-celled, freshwater, green algae typically sold as a powder or compressed into tablets

the perplexing fact that when Europeans came into contact with American Indians, the transfer of deadly germs was all one way (with the possible exception of syphilis).12 There were no domesticated animals in the New World (other than the Peruvian llama), which meant humans there had no opportunity to evolve genetic resistance to particular diseases that originated in such animals before circulating among people.

There is no disputing the accurate, scientific fact that millions of germs are floating, swimming, wriggling everywhere. At the same time, however, if you ignore them completely they lose all possible connection with yourself, and at once become nothing more than vanishing "ghosts of science".

One of the Big Ideas in this book is that fungi, especially fungi from old-growth forests, may be sources of new medicines that are active against a range of germs, including HIV/AIDS and the causative agents of smallpox and anthrax, potential bioterrorist threats.