Kidneys Quotes

Despite all those years of abusing your lungs, your kidneys, your liver the only thing you've had removed is your kids.

Another advantage of avoiding sodas is that you will avoid the caffeine that is in many of them. Caffeine is a weak diuretic that causes calcium loss via the kidneys.

I had a test on my kidneys a few weeks back and found out I have two.

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

There is a risk of death associated with donating a piece of liver. It's about one in 500 for the risk of death. The risk of death of donating a kidney is about one in 3000, so this is a riskier operation than donating a kidney. The stakes are usually higher for the recipient of the transplant because unlike kidney failure, where you have a dialysis machine, in liver failure we don't have that kind of machine that allows a patient to survive until they can get a cadaver organ.

Twelve people die every day because there aren't enough kidneys.

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patients renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving.

There are but a few blood purifiers and these are all in the body. We know them as the liver, kidneys, lungs, colon, and a few glands.

Because they're stupid, that's why. That's why everybody does everything.

Organ donation is very personal to me.
My mother,
before her death,
was on kidney dialysis for several years.

You know that family is going to be there for you no matter what. My dad gave me a freakin' kidney!

For diabetes in particular, we know there's a relationship between lack of glucose regulation and complications like blindness and kidney failure. So if you were diabetic and you knew that you could get your glucose in a tight, normal range just by adjusting your lifestyle, wouldn't that be great?

The brain secretes thought as the stomach secretes gastric juice, the liver bile, and the kidneys urine.

So we said to ourselves, if we can remove antibodies from someone who's in the middle of a terrible rejection, and save those kidneys, then we should be able to remove them before surgery

It is my conviction that no normal man ever fell in love, within the ordinary meaning of the term, after the age of thirty.

Caffeine dehydrates the body and speeds up the aging of the skin and kidneys.

Altruism became the sole legitimate motivation for giving a kidney. And it is a partial - I say a partial failure.

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status.

My only grudge against nature was that I could not turn my Lolita inside out and apply voracious lips to her young matrix, her unknown heart, her nacreous liver, the sea-grapes of her lungs, her comely twin kidneys.

The jewel of the lard is right around the kidneys. But this is a fat that has a very specific crystalline formation and a high melting point.

If (Declan) Kidney had gone for religion instead of teaching, he would have been Pope.

What about my brain? What about my heart? What about my kidneys and my gallbladder?

Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker. I hope his kidneys fail.

In my own life, I do not live like an effective altruist. An effective altruist would really disapprove of my life. I don't give enough to charity and I still have both my kidneys.

Not wanting to give everyone in your life one of your kidneys is not the same thing as hoping they die of kidney failure.

Yes - I am usually overweight. I have had to be interested in diet because of being diabetic for 30 years and having kidney failure.

In China, people are selling their kidney to buy an iPhone 6. What's going to happen when the iPhone 7 comes out?

Matching the right kidney to the right patient is one example of an algorithmic artificial intelligence.