Top 149 Lung Quotes & Sayings

Knowledge and imagination are the life buoy and the extra lung for breathing outside the walls of a tainted reality.

I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.

I don't live in the city, I don't work in a high-risk environment, and I am not a smoker. So it was never anything that would occur to me that I would get lung cancer, but the more I have learned about lung cancer is that it is becoming much more random, and it is striking women who are under 50 and are non-smokers and not in a risk environment.

We have so much lung capacity that we don't even notice a problem until we are in our 40s.

I am the only 'celebrity' to be public about my lung cancer.

I grew up in Manchester, and we were very poor. My father was a miner who joined the Navy during the war and developed a lung disease and had to have a lung removed.

I always used to say to myself, I'm going to die of lung cancer. That's the choice I'm making.

When we think about lung cancer, the biggest environmental factor is without doubt smoking. Um, that would make a huge impact and has made a huge impact on the incidence of lung cancer. We have to keep pushing that and making it clear to everybody why smoking is so dangerous.

"Smoking may cause fetal injury or premature birth." ... I found my brand. Just don't get the ones that say, "Lung Cancer."

It's you people dying from nothing that are screwed. I got all sorts of neat gadgets waiting for me...oxygen tent, iron lung.

I've lost seven friends to smoking-related lung cancer. Each death was a long, agonizing experience.

The decrease in incidents of death from cancer is largely attributable to new medicines or therapeutics. Perhaps a third is attributable to changing our environment, and that includes of course smoking which I believe accounted for probably 20 percent of deaths from, certainly from lung cancer, more than that from lung cancer, but from cancer overall.

There is no conclusive proof that nicotine's addictive... And the same thing with cigarettes causing emphysema, lung cancer, heart disease.

About a quarter of lung cancer cases occur in people who have never smoked. One cause may be another potential carcinogen: fumes from frying.

I have a huge rib cage, which is why I can hold a note out until I'm blue in the face... because I have such a big lung capacity.

Chips of plutonium are twinkling in every lung.

My doctor found a spot on my lung. He told me it looked like adenocarcinoma, a cancer he attributes to smoking. He didn't need to biopsy it.

There is no way that the heart-lung machine could have been devised and developed other than through studies on living creatures

Studies show that Avastin can prolong the lives of patients with late-stage breast and lung cancer by several months when the drug is combined with existing therapies.

When I was a teenager, I was in an iron-lung.

My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, 'What can I do?'

Work from home will relieve the pressure on urban infrastructure and land, which can be released for mass housing or public transport, and critical lung space.

Carbon pollution contributes to climate change, which causes temperatures to rise. Hotter temperatures mean more smog in the air, and breathing smog can inflame deep lung tissue. Repeated inflammation over time can permanently scar lung tissue, even in low concentrations.

Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer! If anybody is getting a cancerous activity in the lung, the probabilities are that it's radiation dosage coupled with the fact that he smokes. And what it does is start to run out the radiation dosage, don't you see.

Surgery for early stage non-small cell lung cancer is standard treatment and is likely curative. Yet, fewer blacks than whites undergo surgery for the disease, leading to a higher mortality rate among blacks with lung cancer.

Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer! If anybody is getting a cancerous activity in the lung, the probabilities are that it's radiation dosage coupled with the fact that he smokes.

Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?

I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.

And blue-lung'd combers lumbered to the kill.

I'm passionate about making a difference in increasing the quality of life and survivorship for all affected by lung cancer, having lost my mother and grandmother to this terrible disease.

I'm functioning on a lung and a half, but I have proved that it's possible to challenge yourself.

Cough up a lung where I'm from marcy son, aint nothin nice

I never get sick - not a cold, not a cough or sore throat. Everyone around me can be hacking up a lung, and I'm fine.

If you have lung cancer, the most important thing you can know is your genetic code.

I suffer from bronchiectasis, an obstructive lung disease, and have a little osteoporosis, too.

Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer. - On being a social smoker.

I was stabbed when I was 17. It was touch and go, and my lung collapsed, and I was in hospital for five days. It is part of my back story.

I've broken fifty-six bones, broke my back twice, punctured a lung and knocked out a few teeth.

I stood and walked around the desk so I could stand over him. Menacingly. Like Darth Vader, only with better lung capacity.

I was at a birthday party and a truck backed up and the wheels ran over my chest. I lost part of my lung and my liver.

In December 1988, my mother died of lung cancer. I died too. I couldn't function.

The girl in me wanted to slap Lung across his face and yell, "Get your eyes off my sticky buns, ya creep!

It's very difficult to play when your lung comes out of your air

You know what I've always wanted to do? I've always wanted to put a lung in a suitcase and send it through an airport security check. In effect, the guard would be looking at an X-ray of a lung.

All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung-the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to emerge from that rarified atmosphere in order to breathe the same fresh air our constituents breathe.

There was one point where my mother was dying of lung cancer, and a journalist dressed up as a nurse and got in the house to get a picture of her, dying of lung cancer and stuff like that, and then you realise the fame's not all it's cracked up to be.

I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.

I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

[My grandfather -a miner] had black lung, and he didn't talk about it much. It's almost like a combat veteran. But he witnessed some horrific things.

You don't have free will when you have lung cancer.

Both of my grandparents died of lung cancer. So I got quite a lesson in the payback later in life of smoking, and if you keep it up how bad it can be.

In the human lung, there are millions of air foils, just like aeroplane wings, which facilitate normal breathing.

My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, What can I do?

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung.

I think the best exercise that I do is singing for an hour-and-a-half out on the stage, because, yes, I use the lung, the biggest muscle in your body.

If you just do a Google search and type in 'smoking' or 'lung cancer', you will be barraged with never ending facts and numbers, like how one in every three Americans is affected by lung disease and how COPD is the third leading cause of death and if you get lung cancer the odds are 95% that you will die.

A study was done which shows the majority of oncologists who refer patients for chemotherapy for lung cancer would not themselves take chemotherapy for lung cancer. And in fact if the chemotherapy involved cis-platen, something like 75% of them said they wouldn't take it. But what do these people do all day long? They're sending people for cis-platen.

The earth is round, smoking is linked to lung cancer, gravity makes things fall, and humans are warming the planet. Scientists strongly agree on all of these.

Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer.

I’m so sorry! Are you okay? (Shahara) Other than the fact that I feel like my rib just punctured a lung, sure, I’m all right. (Syn)