Logo
Quote by Peter Agre
The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for

The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems. – Peter Agre

Other quotes by Peter Agre

Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this. – Peter Agre

Category:
Medical
Author
Peter Agre
Read Quote

Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt. – Peter Agre

Category:
teacher
Author
Peter Agre
Read Quote

My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Moms cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop. – Peter Agre

Category:
mom
Author
Peter Agre
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Health
category

The health care system is really designed to reward you for being unhealthy. If you are a healthy person and work hard to be healthy, there are no benefits. – Mike Huckabee

Category:
Health

From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health. – Catalan Proverb

Category:
Health

The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, theyre major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems. – Paul Farmer

Category:
Health

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. – Lord Chesterfield

Category:
Health

Random Quotes

I dont like to be labeled, to be anything. Ive made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but its counter-productive. – Neil Young

Category:
Music

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets. – James Broughton

Category:
Poetry

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. – C.G. Jung, Integration of the Personality, 1939

Category:
Parents

I feel pretty good when I get out of bed in the morning. I dont feel all beat up, which is nice. – Drew Bledsoe

Category:
Morning