Frederick Banting Quotes

Especially during the hot weather, we have been so greatly hampered by infections despite our utmost care, and since we have lost so many dogs, I strongly desire more help to keep the place clean and gloves and gowns and a thorough fitting up of our operating room.

We need to always be vigilant on the sanitary issues.

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 do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.

The Clintons are walking around on poo. But it’s very clean poo.

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.

I travel with my own long silk robe. At the hotel, you just never know if the robes have been washed after they've been worn by other people.

Somebody warned me early on to be very careful about brushing up against the chocolate.

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

If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.

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.

Florence Nightingale was an amazing figure. She created the American Red Cross. She saw the suffering from bad health conditions on the battlefield and in the military hospitals, and she fought like crazy to change the conditions; to make sure that the doctors washed their hands and practiced sanitary measures. She put herself at great risks.

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

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

If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone.

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.

Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each time from individual bars of soap.

I don't like dirt. Cleanliness is high on my agenda, but I don't have a phobia of dirt. I'm just not keen on it. I don't really like dirty people or houses or smelly things.

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

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.

When I was little, whenever I got out of the shower, I never wanted to touch the floor because once you touch the floor, your feet are dirty again. So in the shower, I used to put my socks on already without drying them off.

I'm really hygienic.