Quotes About Cough

I pulled in a soft breath. My lungs were starving, crying out for air. I lay still, and a cough tickled at the back of my throat. It always happens when you're hiding, a cough, a sneeze, something. It's stupid. The body decides to screw around with you, even though it knows being quiet is the only way it's going to go on living.

Kylpaitryc's eyes streamed tears as he coughed explosively on harsh, sinus-raping smoke.

and after the beep I leave a concise message with exactly the information a therapist wants—name, one-liner about why I'm calling, and return phone number. I'm doing well until, thinking it might get me in to see him sooner, I add that I'm also a therapist, but my voice cracks as I say the word therapist. Mortified, I cover with a cough and quickly hang up.

If you've had a cough that lasted weeks, a cough that just doesn't seem to go away, chances are it was pertussis.

God, don't laugh! Jamie said, alarmed. I didna mean to make ye laugh! Christ, Jenny will kill me if ye cough up a lung and die out here!

A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.

seeing a woman cough today made me sense a vague fear of death

buckwheat honey reduced coughing as well as the best-selling over-the-counter cough suppressant, dextromethorphan

You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax; tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough.

Love and a cough cannot be hid.

Influenza transmission is legendary. The dying cells in the respiratory tract trigger an inflammatory response, which triggers the cough reflex. The virus thus uses the body's own defenses to infect other potential hosts.

With a rasping cough, the vampire shakes its head. "It was you who called us. All of you, with your war. The roar of your cannons shook us from our quiet graves...

The action of the virus is unique. It begins by attacking the respiratory system, the lining of the lungs and the bronchial in particular. The victim develops a cough, which serves to propagate the virus. Then it spreads to the other internal organs and the brain. We know of no other viral epidemic where the pattern of symptoms match this one. It's a virus that we've never seen before.

You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax - tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough.