Famous Quotes & Sayings

When we become donors we save people's lives. It's that immediate. It's a cure.

Robert Montgomery

With this innovation, I can tell any patient who has a live donor and is medically eligible that they can be transplanted with a high likelihood of success.

All of us as volunteers, many of us are donors ourselves. We do need to make sure that the money is going to those in the greatest need.

A lot of donors who were holding back are now going to feel free to give,

Jay Nixon

It's the lowest of the low when someone solicits funds ... We don't want one more penny from well-meaning donors going through this hater.

Until donors are happy, they're not going to be too inclined to resource the operation.

Our donors are the key to maintaining our supplies. It's always great to do something to help someone else by donating blood, but it's also nice to receive a little something for the effort. That's why we have the extra incentives. While you can't repay someone for the gift of life, this is our way of saying 'thank you' for giving to someone else.

The standard for rejecting money is that the donor has risen to enough prominence that holding on to the money will hurt you at the polls. It's a very pragmatic, political standard.

It was tough. She was the type of person that made the most of it. She was the type of person who didn't like to talk to anybody, but knew she had obligations to do so to promote the donor program.

This is not a story of donors being mean. This is a story of a failed system.

Robert Montgomery

This procedure has the potential of increasing the number of living donor transplant operations by one third to one half.

What we need from donors is that the time between pledge and disbursement should be one hour.

We're paying for that through our own donor base, through volunteers and grants.

We will urge that donors be prepared to go the distance.

Many Kenyans ... are already living in the edge and unless donors respond immediately, we fear for the worst.

I extend my sincere gratitude to all donors and their families for the hope they provide others.

Giving for the tsunami was literally off the charts. There may be an issue of donor fatigue, it's too early to tell, but it looks like giving for the Pakistan earthquake is more typical of the historical response by U.S. donors to international emergencies.

Hopefully some of our donors are going to sponsor specific parts within the pool.

One organ and tissue donor can save up to seven lives and enhance the lives of up to 75 others.

We need the generosity of donors to continue, especially until the winter is over to make sure people make it through the winter alive.

Mike Rogers

We never send out e-mails to people for aid, ... We only send a physical letter to (past) donors once a year.

Most of the mail is for donors and volunteers.

We expect a lot from tomorrow's donor conference. We hope to see the same response to Pakistan as to the tsunami, but we are far from there because the financing is far from adequate.

We find a kidney from a living donor tends to do better than a kidney from a cadaver donor, even if the cadaver is a perfect match.

What donors find useful is to provide resources to try to guide the main work of these organizations so they go as far upstream as they can when the projects are being prepared to ensure the projects acknowledge their development priorities.

We are facing the real prospect in two months from now of another catastrophe which can be averted with the right kind of donor assistance.

When they leave the program, when they turn 18, The Haven will match up to $1,000 of whatever they save. Then, at the end of 12 months of the Turning Point program with Turtle Nest, whatever they've been able to save during that 12-month period, our donors will match up to $2,500.

Hun Sen has found himself under pressure and he is doing the minimum possible to keep the donors happy.

Cat Osterman

I didn't bring my headphones, I'd watched the two movies they had played and I was just like, 'Can we please find a donor that wants to give us a private jet? This is not Okay.'

Our goal is to raise $35,000 because we have a donor who will match that amount.

Larry Sabato

Rendell is not just another governor. He's already been a national figure. He has been (Democratic National Committee) chairman, and he knows the movers and shakers and donors in all 50 states.

Organ donors are the real heroes. I'm here today because of one. I'm forever grateful, forever humbled by that.

It's really all about trust. If donors give money to meet a specific need, we need to tell them when that projected need has been met.