Quotes About Sanitation

I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

I'm a freak of neat. The kitchen has to be clean.

The worst job in the whole world must be recycling toilet paper.

Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean.

Mrs. Joe war eine sehr reinliche Hausfrau, doch sie verstand sich ausnehmend gut darauf, ihre Reinlichkeit bequemer und unerträglicher zu machen, als jeder Schmutz gewesen wäre. Die Reinlichkeit ist der Gottesfurcht verwandt, und manche verfahren mit ihrer Religion ganz genauso.

Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children.

wanted a toilet

I'm a union guy; I've always been. I've been in SAG 35 years; my father was a garbage man, a sanitation man, for the city, a union guy.

The provision of toilets is a minimum requirement for the dignity of our women.

I have stayed in homes that didn't have basic infrastructure such as proper washrooms.

The flush toilet, more than any single invention, has 'civilized' us in a way that religion and law could never accomplish.

Five million people die unnecessarily each year because of illness related to lack of potable water. Half of them are children under the age of five. To bring it home, think about this: one child dies from lack of clean water every twelve seconds.

Because sanitation has so many effects across all aspects of development - it affects education, it affects health, it affects maternal mortality and infant mortality, it affects labor - it's all these things, so it becomes a political football. Nobody has full responsibility.

A strip of white paper was looped around the seat of the toilet bowl to certify that no one had sat there since the strip was placed in position. The toilet paper from the toilet-paper holder in the wall to the left of the toilet seat was soft and very absorbent, and would stick to the anus.

I didn't like having Grandma there. She slept on a cot in my room and boiled all our suppers. It was unsanitary, she said, the way Daddy drank right out of the water bottle and then put it back in the Frigidaire.

I've got to clean it." "You'll prob'ly find everything you need right over there by that sign that says, 'Godliness.' The cleanin' stuff's right next to it.

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

HYGIENE. Bacteriology made moral...

There aren't many clean places left in this dirty world of ours.

If you really want to purify people, dispense hand sanitizer

More than 1 billion people do not have access to sufficient water to meet their basic sanitation needs.

Demographic transition is associated with an increase in the quality of health care and sanitation as well as improved access to education, especially for women.

What they have done in Japan, which I find so inspirational, is they've brought the toilet out from behind the locked door. They've made it conversational. People go out and upgrade their toilet. They talk about it. They've sanitized it.