Polio Vaccine Quotes:

That is why we have the polio vaccine. People are blazing their own trial. That is what seems to be important. I don't care to follow and to do what the mass is doing. That is not doing anything, to be doing what everyone else is doing. Everybody is unique. The funny thing about people now is that people don't really understand or really appreciate how unique each individual on earth is.

- Henry Threadgill

topic: Unique, Polio Vaccine, Funny Things, Polio

Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio.

- Naveen Jain

topic: Creativity, Vaccines, Fire, Printing Press, Polio

If you give us a safe vaccine, we'll use it. It shouldn't be polio versus autism.

- Jenny McCarthy

source: "Jenny McCarthy on Autism and Vaccines". Interview with Jeffrey Kluger, content.time.com. April 1, 2009.

topic: Vaccines, Giving, Autism, Jenny, Polio

Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.

- Melinda Gates

topic: Children, Vaccines, Looks, Polio, Polio Vaccine

Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections.

- Ezekiel Emanuel

source: "How We Can Save Over 4 Million Children" by Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2010.

topic: Children, Vaccines, Medicine, Polio, Polio Vaccine

Provocation polio. That is the truth about those outbreaks of polio. And I offer a well considered personal opinion that polio is a man made disease.

- Viera Scheibner

topic: Men, Vaccines, Disease, Polio, Polio Vaccine

I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.

- Francis Ford Coppola

topic: Girl, Teacher, School, Polio, Polio Vaccine

When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television.

- Francis Ford Coppola

topic: Children, People, Television, Polio, Polio Vaccine

When I worked on the polio vaccine, I had a theory. I guided each [experiment] by imagining myself in the phenomenon in which I was interested. The intuitive realm . . . the realm of the imagination guides my thinking.

- Jonas Salk

topic: Thinking, Imagination, Polio, Polio Vaccine

Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed: It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.

- Jonas Salk

topic: Science, Vaccines, Safety, Polio, Polio Vaccine

I am no saviour. I’m absolutely the last person on the planet who can practically help. I don’t know how to make the different types of therapeutic feeding milk. I’m no chemist. I’m no doctor. I’m no engineer. I can’t manufacture polio vaccines or organise their transportation to the health centres in Saramoussayah or Bissikirima. I can’t build schools, or design drainage systems. I can’t provide the women and children of Mandiana with water.All I can do now is help make people aware of what is happening, of what they are doing. That is all that I can do. For now.

- Tom Hiddleston

topic: Children, School, Doctors, Drainage, Polio

Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

- Sarah Vowell

source: Sarah Vowell (2005). “Assassination Vacation”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

topic: War, Ideas, Vaccines, Polio, Polio Vaccine

The main problem, certainly, for the people who will not get vaccinated with Thimerosal, which was put into polio vaccine. And the belief was that it may cause autism. And there's been an awful lot done in terms of studies in Western Europe, Canada, the United States, and no correlation was found between Thimerosal and autism from those children who took vaccines. Indeed, when Thimerosal was taken out of many of these vaccines, the autism rate in the United States still rose.

- David Oshinsky

source: "Bill Gates' Goal: Get Rid Of Polio, Forever". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 31, 2011.

topic: Children, Taken, Europe, Polio, Polio Vaccine

We have yet to beat our drums for birth control in the way we beat them for polio vaccine. We are still unable to put babies in the class of dangerous epidemics, even though this is the exact truth.

- Mary Calderone

topic: Baby, Epidemics, Class, Polio, Polio Vaccine

My two Jamaican cousins ... were studying engineering. 'That's where the money is,' Mom advised. ... I was to be an engineering major, despite my allergy to science and math. ... Those who preceded me at CCNY include the polio vaccine discoverer, Dr. Jonas Salk ... and eight Nobel Prize winners. ... In class, I stumbled through math, fumbled through physics, and did reasonably well in, and even enjoyed, geology. All I ever looked forward to was ROTC. Autobiographical comments on his original reason for going to the City College of New York, where he shortly turned to his military career.

- Colin Powell

topic: Mom, Cousin, New York, Allergies, Polio

I have studied the effects of our new lots of polio vaccine in 100 adult volunteers and during the next few days shall give it to my wife and 2 children as well as to our neighbors and their children.

- Albert Sabin

topic: Children, Vaccines, Volunteer, Polio Vaccine

Even to this day, the government, the FDA is refusing to use the sophisticated biotechnology to evaluate the contaminants in the vaccines such as the polio vaccines that they are administering. I think (people) would be appalled that some of the vaccines that are currently being used are still laced with viruses.

- Leonard Horowitz

topic: Thinking, Fda, Government, Polio, Polio Vaccine

When you inoculate children with a polio vaccine, you don't sleep well for two or three months.

- Jonas Salk

topic: Children, Sleep, Two, Polio, Polio Vaccine

But cancer can also be fun with its luncheons, theatre parties, and fund raising luaus. ...What will they all do if a cure comes out of it? Considering how easily the March of Dimes conglomerate shifted gears after the polio vaccine, it should pose no problem.

- Edgar Berman

source: Edgar Berman (1976). “The solid gold stethoscope”

topic: Fun, Cancer, Party, Polio Vaccine