Parkinson Quotes

Leo, sadly, has Parkinson’s, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things.

– Jilly Cooper

Some genetic variants can be informative about one’s risk for Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease.

– Anne Wojcicki

There are several patients – there are thousands of patients, tens of thousands of patients, that carry either a stimulator in the brain or in the periphery, in the inner ear, to restore neurological functions or to control diseases like Parkinson’s disease.

– Miguel Nicolelis

Inflammation is the cornerstone of Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis – all of the neurodegenerative diseases are really predicated on inflammation.

– David Perlmutter

With Parkinson’s, you do need more rest.

– Maurice White

I have a form of Parkinson’s disease, which I don’t like. My legs don’t move when my brain tells them to. It’s very frustrating.

– George H. W. Bush

I traveled with the band for five years with Parkinson’s.

– Maurice White

Joe Frazier got hit more than me – and he doesn’t have Parkinson’s.

– Muhammad Ali

Parkinson’s is very hard to diagnose. So when I finally went to a neurologist, and he said, ‘Oh, you have Parkinson’s disease,’ I was completely shocked.

– Linda Ronstadt

He had Parkinson’s disease for about, I’d say diagnosed for about 11 of the last years of his life. And treatment was not as good as it is now, of course. We’re still going along and he died in ’85 and he was 77.

– Lynn Redgrave

I often say now I don’t have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson’s, but surrounding that non-choice is a million other choices that I can make.

– Michael J. Fox