Bronchitis Quotes

• London: A place you go to get bronchitis.

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  Fran Lebowitz

  Cities   Places You Go   London  

  4604

• If one looks closely one sees that there is no essential difference between a beggar's livelihood and that of numberless respectable people. Beggars do not work, it is said; but then, what is work? A navvy works by swinging a pick. An accountant works by adding up figures. A beggar works by standing out of doors in all weathers and getting varicose veins, chronic bronchitis, etc. It is a trade like any other; quite useless, of course - but then, many reputable trades are quite useless.

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  George Orwell

  Doors   Weather   Differences  

  4011

• I was in Mongolia, pretty extreme situations. We were sick with dysentery, we were sick with bronchitis. I had been bitten by a dog for the first time in my life and my whole hand was black, and there was no way to even think of getting a rabies shot without driving for five days, and then you wouldn't have wanted that needle in your skin anyway. And I had my period. Everything was wrong at one time. Like, I couldn't have been more uncomfortable. And I stayed up - it was too cold to sleep.

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  Pam Houston

  Dog   Sleep   Thinking  

  Source: therumpus.net

  3156

• I find that a lot of times when family members get bronchitis or the flu or something like that, I'll kind of skate through and be really lucky and not get that sick.

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  Aaron Bruno

  Sick   Lucky   Flu  

  2945

• I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it

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  Mercedes McCambridge

  Three   Three Times   Bronchitis  

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

  630

• I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'

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  Barbara Boxer

  Inspiring   Mothers Day   Children  

  4930

• It's a mystery of parenthood that your son can give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a stray, worm-riddled dog, share a piece of re-chewed gum from a kid with bronchitis and pick his nose and eat it on a regular basis, yet won't sit next to his sister because of 'Girl Germs'.

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  Kathy Lette

  Girl   Dog   Morning  

  2636

• At first I wasn’t all that tempted by him, but then he killed the spider. Which was a huge point in his favor.” “Absolutely. I love men who kill bugs.” “And then when I was freaking out and couldn’t breathe, he was so…gentle.” Zoe sighed and colored, remembering. “He was holding me, and talking to me in that voice…you know, sort of low and rough around the edges…” “All the Nolans sound like that,” Justine said reflectively. “Like they’ve got a mild case of bronchitis. Totally hot.

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  Lisa Kleypas

  Men   Talking   Voice  

  4667

• Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.

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  James Agate

  Long   Theatre   Experience  

  James Agate (1947). “My Theatre Talks”

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• My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related.

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  Loni Anderson

  Dad   Cancer   Smoking  

  4527

• Nobody would ever convince me that the bronchitis and pneumonia were caused by cigarettes.

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  Barbara Warren

  Pneumonia   Cigarette   Bronchitis  

  1044