Heart Transplant Quotes:

It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it.

- Barry Switzer

topic: Heart, College, Nfl, Transplants, Heart Transplant

For a dying man it is not a difficult decision [to agree to become the world's first heart transplant] ... because he knows he is at the end. If a lion chases you to the bank of a river filled with crocodiles, you will leap into the water convinced you have a chance to swim to the other side. But you would not accept such odds if there were no lion.

- Christiaan Barnard

topic: Heart, Men, Odds, Transplants, Difficult Decisions

I am overjoyed that I do not need a heart transplant at this time.

- Lech Walesa

topic: Heart, Needs, Overjoyed, Transplants, Heart Transplant

It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.

- Christiaan Barnard

source: "Heart transplant pioneer dies". www.cnn.com. September 2, 2001.

topic: Heart, Worms, Transplants, Heart Transplant

An Israeli man's life was saved when he was given a Palestinian man's heart in a heart transplant operation. The guy is doing fine, but the bad news is, he can't stop throwing rocks at himself.

- Jay Leno

topic: Heart, Men, Rocks, Transplants, Throwing Rocks

The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.

- Adam Ant

topic: Heart, Brain, Transplants, Heart Transplant

The artificial heart is very effective as a bridge to transplant, but the number of people that can be saved with human hearts is limited. A perfect artificial heart could save many more patients.

- Robert Jarvik

topic: Heart, Bridges, Numbers, Transplants, Heart Transplant

You only have to bat 1.000 in two things-flying and heart transplants. Everything else, you can go four in five.

- Beano Cook

topic: Heart, Two, Flying, Heart Transplant

In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus offers more than God's personal email or private cell number - He offers us a heart transplant.

- Mark Hart

topic: Jesus, Prayer, Heart, Transplants, Heart Transplant

The Wright brothers' first flight was shorter than a Boeing 747's wing span. We've just begun with heart transplants.

- C. Walton Lillehei

topic: Brother, Heart, Wings, Transplants, Wright Brothers

So much goes into doing a transplant operation. All the way from preparing the patient, to procuring the donor. It's like being an astronaut. The astronaut gets all the credit, he gets the trip to the moon, but he had nothing to do with the creation of the rocket, or navigating the ship. He's the privileged one who gets to drive to the moon. I feel that way in some of these more difficult operations, like the heart transplant.

- Denton Cooley

source: "Presidential Medal of Freedom". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. April 11, 1991.

topic: Heart, Moon, Rockets, Transplants, Heart Transplant

I was scared that no one would hire me. At that time, there was still a stigma attached to it. A big stigma. Actually, I think I was healthier after the operation than some people who have bypass surgery because I was completely cured. But when you mentioned "heart transplant," you got a very negative reaction. It triggered people's imaginations, and not in a good way.

- Robert Altman

topic: Transplants, Negative Reactions, Heart Transplant

The idea of a spiritual heart transplant is a vivid image to me; once you have the heart of somebody else inside you, then that heart is there. Jesus' heart is inside me, and my heart is gone. So if God were to place a stethoscope against my chest, he would hear the heart of Jesus Christ beating.

- Max Lucado

topic: Spiritual, Jesus, Heart, Stethoscope, Heart Transplant

I had a 23 per cent blockage in my micro-arteries. At first the doctors thought I needed a heart transplant, then they said I have microvascular angina, which means I will be on medication for the rest of my life.

- Toni Braxton

topic: Heart, Mean, Doctors, Blockage, Transplants

Here's the thing: If you're so far left you actually believe that somebody owes you a job, citizenship and a heart transplant, you're mentally ill. If you're so far right that you actually believe that somebody who doesn't have a job and is not a citizen deserves to have their heart cut out and sold on eBay, and you get to keep 80 percent of the profit - you're mentally ill.

- Christopher Titus

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Jobs, Believe, Heart, Mentally Ill, Transplants

A few years ago he had a big heart transplant in Chicago, a five-hour operation. It took the doctors four hours to get him on the operating table.

- Bob Hope

topic: Funny, Heart, Doctors, Transplants, Heart Transplant

Of the many 'firsts' with which I have been involved at the Texas Heart Institute —including the first successful human heart transplant in the United States and the first total artificial heart transplant in the world—the achievement that may have the greatest impact on health care did not occur in the operating room or in the research laboratory. It happened on a piece of paper... when we created the first-ever packaged pricing plan for cardiovascular surgical procedures.

- Denton Cooley

topic: Heart, Successful, Impact, Operating Room, Transplants

The benefits of medical research are real - but so are the potential horrors of genetic engineering and embryo manipulation. We devise heart transplants, but do little for the 15 million who die annually of malnutrition and related diseases. Our cleverness has grown prodigiously - but not our wisdom.

- Martin Ryle

source: Letter to Professor Carlos Chagas, February 24, 1983.

topic: Real, Heart, Engineering, Malnutrition, Medical Research