“Body cells replace themselves every month. Even at this very moment”

— Haruki Murakami, book A Wild Sheep Chase

Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 25, Transit Completed at Movie Theater, On to The Dolphin Hotel
Context: "Body cells replace themselves every month. Even at this very moment," she said, thrusting a skinny back of her hand before my eyes, "most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.”

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Japanese author, novelist 1949

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: Uncommon Criminals

“This earth, every one of the billions of individual cells of your body, and every atom of matter, began as an intangible form of energy.”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Think and Grow Rich (1938) p. 64

“I can't identify myself as the body, simply because the cells keeps changing every single day.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Every cell from a cell.”
Omnis cellula e cellula

Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902) German doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician

“The dream of every cell is to become two cells.”

François Jacob (1920–2013) French biologist

They not only obey them; they utilize them as a good engineer would, with maximum efficiency, to carry out the project and bring about the "dream" (as François Jacob put it) of every cell: to become two cells.
Source: Originated from paraphrase of a paragraph in Chance and Necessity (1970, p20) by Jacques Monod: