Frederick Banting Quotes

We need to always be vigilant on the sanitary issues.

I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.

The place where we were operating was not fit to be called an operating room. Aseptic work had not been done in it for some years. The floor could not be scrubbed properly, or the water would go through on the laboratories below.

There's nothing going into my mouth that's not wrapped.

I instinctively try to protect people from filth.

I'm a germ-phobe when I meet a lot of people or shake a lot of hands. I always have hand sanitizer and alcohol swabs so I can sort of go back and forth between the two.

The less we think or know about hygiene, the less we are predisposed to sickness.

The difference between keeping things clean and keeping kids clean was that things just sat still and waited for the dirt to collect. We kids were carriers. We ran a pickup and delivery service.

Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better.

I think hygiene is so important.

Masks. Test Supplies. Ventilators. Gloves. Gowns. These are the most critical tools that our doctors, nurses and other first responders on the front line of the coronavirus pandemic need to continue their tireless work and save lives.

People have to clearly see the connection between their family's health and their sanitation habits.

Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

When I was growing up, hand washing was a ritual, but now it's a necessity. A child dies every 15 seconds from preventable causes, which has got to stop.

Most food you drop is still perfectly edible. If it was in your eyesight the whole time, you can pick it up and eat it.

When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.

There's nothing I hate more than gritty, linty, mysterious pocket schmutz in the cap of my lip moisturizer - or, even worse, on the applicator itself. I shudder at the thought.

I'm a little bit of a germophobe - not that bad!

Light is the greatest disinfectant in nature and also in organizations.

I'm a hygiene freak. I'm like obsessive-compulsive when it comes to washing your hands.

I'm not a crazy germophobe; I have kids, and that ship has sailed.

Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.