UV Radiation Quotes

I spent the first summer after my diagnosis creeping about in giant sun hats and tents, cursing the sun, staying inside as much as possible. Now I am beginning to think the most important thing is educated sun exposure, because the melanomas of today are not caused by today's sunbathing, but by our childhoods and early adolescence.

The ozone is breaking down more and more each year; that's a fact. That being said, we have to be more conscious of the sun and what it can do to your skin.

I learned not to go in the sun early on in my career. A tan lasts for a week or two before it fades, and the sun is so damaging—it's not worth it. I put sunscreen on my kids every day before school and before they play outside. They know the routine.

Sunburn is very becoming - but only when it is even - one must be careful not to look like a mixed grill.

When I was younger, I used to put honey and Coca-Cola and all that stuff on my body and just fry in the sun. But I think we all know how bad that is for you.

I didn't know I was harming myself. I don't think my parents should have allowed me to use a sunbed, but they weren't aware of the dangers either.

I got sunburnt which is obviously a drag for me because in theory the sun is supposed to kill me.

There's a common misconception that you don't need SPF during the grey winter months, but it's so important to protect skin from UVA/UVB rays year-round.

I've gone to a tanning bed.

You would think that UV just causes mutations, but it doesn't; you need a gene to be active for it.

The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.

We are seeing lots of young people with melanoma. It's actually scared me quite a bit.

The only reason I've ever had to wear a hat is to avoid skin cancer.

In a thousand years, archaeologists will dig up tanning beds and think we fried people as a punishment.

My actinic keratosis is a result of the triumphalism of the beach. The sun exacerbates it.

When you're younger, you don't believe in it, but it's really so important to stay out the of sun as much as you can. Like if you wanna get tan, you can get a spray tan and not get skin cancer.

It's so important to protect your eyes from harmful UV rays - you use SPF every morning, but you need to protect your eyes, too.

Two weeks of killer sunburn is worth a lifetime of being gorgeous

Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat...college.

When I get in the sun I get very tanned. You can't tell me from the native fishermen in Hawaii or Mexico.

Melanoma is not the most common of skin cancers, but it is the most dangerous if not found in the early stages.

We're human beings and the sun is the sun - how can it be bad for you? I don't think anything that's natural can be bad for you.

Yes I have had a tan, actually. I went to Los Angeles and got one there, but it didn't make it back to Britain. You're not allowed to come through customs with a tan.

I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.

Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours.