Kidneys quotes

Kidneys

28 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Joseph Murray
Joseph Murray Surgeon

"Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patients renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving."

Alton Brown
Alton Brown Chef, Television Personality

"The jewel of the lard is right around the kidneys. But this is a fat that has a very specific crystalline formation and a high melting point."

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Vladimir Nabokov Novelist
Kidneys

"My only grudge against nature was that I could not turn my Lolita inside out and apply voracious lips to her young matrix, her unknown heart, her nacreous liver, the sea-grapes of her lungs, her comely twin kidneys."

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