Blood Transfusion Quotes:

I feel that the recent ruling of the United States Army and Navy regarding the refusal of colored blood donors is an indefensible one from any point of view. As you know, there is no scientific basis for the separation of the bloods of different races except on the basis of the individual blood types or groups.

- Charles R. Drew

source: "One Blood: The Death and Resurrection of Charles R. Drew" by Spencie Love, (pp. 155-156), 1996.

topic: Army, Race, Views, Mixed Race, Different Races

If you want to write poetry, you must have poems that deeply move you. Poems you can't live without. I think of a poem as the blood in a blood transfusion, given from the heart of the poet to the heart of the reader. Seek after poems that live inside you, poems that move through your veins.

- Ralph Fletcher

topic: Moving, Writing, Heart, Blood Transfusion

We now know that the structure of the DNA in humans and chimpanzees differs by only just over one percent. You could even have a blood transfusion from a chimp, provided you have the same blood group.

- Jane Goodall

source: Source: www.egonzehnder.com

topic: Dna, Blood, Groups, Blood Transfusion, Chimpanzees

The more you start prohibiting donors, the more you are going to have less blood in the supply. It's still not clear you can get it from blood transfusions.

- Arthur Caplan

source: "Red Cross wants tighter restrictions on blood donors" by Pete Hartogs, www.cnn.com. January 17, 2001.

topic: Blood, Donors, Clear, Blood Transfusion

In 1984, my mom gave birth to my older sister, Teresa. Due to a complicated delivery, she needed a blood transfusion, and at that moment, my mom had HIV+ blood put into her body.

- Ryan Lewis

source: "A Message from Ryan Lewis". www.indiegogo.com.

topic: Mom, Blood, Body, Older Sister, Blood Transfusion

Sending money to Washington to have it administered and sent back is like getting a blood transfusion from your right arm to your left arm with a leaky valve.

- Ernest Hollings

topic: Blood, Arms, Valve, Blood Transfusion

It took a child. It took a child with a blood transfusion not only to wake me up, but to wake America up, basically. I mean, I read about his plight in a doctor's office in New York in a magazine. I was so outraged about it that I contacted the family. We became friends. I helped them move to another place in Indiana. And we became constant friends.

- Elton John

source: "Elton John on AIDS: Compassion is Part of the Cure". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. July 24, 2012.

topic: New York, Children, Moving, Outraged, Blood Transfusion

Questions have also arisen about AIDS being transmitted to hemophiliacs via blood transfusions.

- Serge Lang

source: Serge Lang (1998). “Challenges”, p.618, Springer Science & Business Media

topic: Blood, Hiv, Aids, Blood Transfusion

Male homosexuals have seduced and abused millions of underage boys. Their unclean sexual habits and ultra-promiscuous lifestyle have resulted in spreading the worst communicable plague in this century, the specter of AIDS, which has not only killed millions of their own, but also millions of others, including tens of thousands who contracted the virus from blood transfusions.

- David Duke

topic: Boys, Blood, Ku Klux Klan, Ultras, Blood Transfusion

If I had a staff of even one person, or could tolerate a small amphetamine habit, or entertain the possibility of weekly blood transfusions, or had been married to Vera Nabokov, or had a housespouse of even minimal abilities, a literary life would be easier to bring about. (In my mind I see all your male readers rolling their eyes. But your female ones - what is that? Are they nodding in agreement? Are their fists in the air?)

- Lorrie Moore

topic: Writing, Eye, Air, Amphetamines, Blood Transfusion

From my conversations with Lance Armstrong and experiences with Lance and the team I am aware that Lance used blood transfusions from 2001 through 2005.

- George Hincapie

topic: Team, Blood, Used, Blood Transfusion

I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: "Brecht, amputate a leg!", I would reply, "Certainly, Your Excellency!", and cut off the leg. If I was told, "Perform a trepanning!" I opened the man's skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.

- Bertolt Brecht

topic: War, Cutting, Men, Iodine, Brecht

Three women were brought to the Singapore General Hospital, each in the same condition and needing a blood transfusion. The first, a Southeast Asian was given the transfusion but died a few hours later. The second, a South Asian was also given a transfusion but died a few days later. The third, an East Asian, was given a transfusion and survived. That is the X factor in development.

- Lee Kuan Yew

topic: Blood, Asian, East, General Hospital, Blood Transfusion

It's like the piano and the cello are being poured into my body, the same way the IV and blood transfusions are. And the memories of my life as it was, and the flashes of it as it might be, are coming so fast and furious. I feel like I can no longer keep up with them but they keep coming and everything is colliding, until I cannot take anymore. Until I cannot be like this a second longer.

- Gayle Forman

topic: Memories, Blood, Piano, Blood Transfusion