Quotes of: Smallpox Keyword

In 1967, the world health community launched a global effort to eradicate smallpox. It took a coordinated, worldwide effort, required the commitment of every government, and cost $130 million dollars. By 1977, smallpox had disappeared.

Liya Kebede

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get sma...

The Fault in Our Stars

Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.

Bill Gates

To the loving eye, even smallpox scars are beautiful.

Stephen King

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Woody Allen

They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.

Anna Karenina

I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it's just such a dramatic success.

Bill Gates

I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world - when that day comes, there will be no more smallpox.

Edward Jenner

The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.

Barton Gellman

You don't have to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the country if you have a couple of cases of smallpox cropping up.

Anthony Fauci

COLUMBUS BROUGHT SMALLPOX TO THE NATIVES; WE SHALL RECALL THE OCCASION WITH A PICNIC!

The Fault in Our Stars

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

William S. Burroughs

Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.

Larry Brilliant

Smallpox, which spreads by respiration and kills roughly one in three of those infected, took hundreds of millions of lives during a recorded history dating to Pharaonic Egypt. The last case was in 1978, and the disease was declared eradicated on May...

Barton Gellman

The CIA now assesses that four nations - Iraq, North Korea, Russia and, to the surprise of some specialists, France - have undeclared samples of the smallpox virus.

Barton Gellman

Dinah Lord: Nothing ever possibly in the least ever happens here. Mother, how do you get smallpox?

The Philadelphia Story

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.

Gustave Flaubert

Someone can tell you all your life that you’re inferior, but it doesn’t matter until you accept it and allow for validation. Once validation takes place, it’s then that the colonial malaise sets in like smallpox.

M.B. Dallocchio

There are cases where government-to-government aid actually has worked. Look at the eradication of smallpox and the near eradication of polio. But these are really top down solutions that require government-to-government support and aid.

Jacqueline Novogratz

The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second...

Jimmy Carter

Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population.

Jared Diamond