Thyroid Gland Quotes:

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

- Christopher Morley

topic: New York, Cities, Literature, Glands, City Life

I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Funny, Success, Motivational Sports, Sweatshirts, Thyroid

I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment.

- Gail Devers

source: "Gail Devers: 'A girl asked what was wrong with me. She said I looked like a monster'". Interview with Jamie Jackson, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2007.

topic: Disease, Radiation, Illness, Thyroid, Thyroid Gland

I was 52 years old. I had diabetes and incipient arthritis. I had lost my gall bladder and most of my thyroid gland in earlier campaigns, but I was convinced the best was ahead of me.

- Ray Kroc

source: Ray Kroc (2016). “Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's”, p.15, St. Martin's Griffin

topic: Years, Optimism, Campaigns, Arthritis, Thyroid

Everybody is I, you all know you are you. And wheresoever's beings exist throughout all galaxies it doesn't any difference. You are all of them, and when they come into being that's you coming into being, you know that very well. Only you don't have to remember the past in the same way you don't have to think about how you work your thyroid gland. You don't have to know how to shine the sun, you just do it, like you breathe. Doesn't it really astonish you that you are this fantastically complex thing, and that you're doing all of this and you never had any education on how to do it.

- Alan Watts

topic: Past, Thinking, Differences, Glands, Thyroid

My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour - calm, quiet and introspective - did something to soothe my shattered self.

- Yann Martel

source: Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.14, Canongate Books

topic: Self, Sloth, Three, Zoology, Glands