Cancer famous quotes
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With over 3 million women battling breast cancer today, everywhere you turn there is a mother, daughter, sister, or friend who has been affected by breast cancer.
-- Betsey Johnson -
I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
-- Bette Midler -
When other women have this same operation, it doesn't make any headlines. But the fact that I was the wife of the President put it in headlines and brought before the public this particular experience I was going through. It made a lot of women realize that it could happen to them. I'm sure I've saved at least one person maybe more.
-- Betty Ford -
[On her mastectomy:] Fact is, I'm the same car I always was, except now I have a dent in my fender.
-- Betty Rollin -
While this has been a private part of my family's life, it is now clear a media story will soon emerge. My father tragically ended his life while battling terminal cancer in 1979.
-- Bill de Blasio -
One of the things we've always tried to do is help others with our story. Whether it's with the infertility issues, whether it's with the breast cancer, we said we're gonna turn these negatives into positives. And if we can help others by sharing our story, then it's worth it.
-- Bill Rancic -
This was our last stop. This was it. We had those two embryos that we had banked prior to learning about the breast cancer, and with the medicine she was on, this was our last effort. The prayers were answered.
-- Bill Rancic -
With breast cancer, it's all about detection. You have to educate young women and encourage them to do everything they have to do.
-- Bill Rancic -
A cancer is not only a physical disease, it is a state of mind.
-- Bill Vaughan -
My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.
-- Bob Schieffer -
Cancer is such a frightening and emotional roller coaster. It's a ride we all want to get off! My best advice is, find the 'glue' that will hold you together - whether it's religion, family, friends, music, yoga, a hobby or a cancer support group. Even our pets can be amazing healers. Be patient and don't give up. Trust me when I say you will come out changed and stronger on the other end of this.
-- Brenda Jones -
I'm a huge breast cancer awareness advocate because my mom went through breast cancer recently. It really brought our family closer.
-- Brenda Song -
The creator who could put a cancer in a believer's stomach is above being interfered with by prayers.
-- Bret Harte -
Well even before she was diagnosed with the cancer, I would have said that she was a lot tougher than me and most guys would probably say that about their wives and it's probably true in most cases.
-- Brett Favre -
My favorite word is clarity...clarity...clarity. And the critical clarity is what is the transformation that is going to take place in the customer's life or work when they buy and use your product? And how profound is that? How important is that? You know the old saying, "If you could come up with a cure for cancer you'd be a billionaire by the end of the week" because of that profound result.
-- Brian Tracy -
Cancer is a passport to intimacy. It is an invitation, maybe even a mandate, to enter the most vital arenas of human life, the most sensitive and the most frightening, the ones that we never want to go to - but when we do go there, we feel incredibly transformed.
-- Bruce Feiler -
Cancer Boy probably has the saddest, noblest, sweetest heart of any character I've ever done.
-- Bruce McCulloch -
At my age, I don't think anyone is untouched by cancer.
-- Bryan Cranston -
For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Addiction is a symptom of not growing up. I know people think it's a disease... If you have a brain tumor, if you have cancer, that's a disease. To say that an addiction is a disease is not fair to the real diseases of the world.
-- C.C. DeVille -
I lost my mother two years ago to cancer. But the greatest gift she gave to me was showing me how to be a wonderful and loving mom to my two sons, even now that they are grown men.
-- Carla Hall -
I've always thought of myself as being a warrior. When you actually have a battle, it's better than when you don't know who to fight.
-- Carly Simon -
I used the physical scar of my breast cancer operation, the scar that I have across my chest as a metaphor for all kinds of scars.
-- Carly Simon -
Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.
-- Cassandra Clare -
If I had done everything I was supposed to, I'd be leading the league in homers, have the highest batting average, have given $100,000 to the Cancer Fund and be married to Marie Osmond.
-- Catfish Hunter -
With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.
-- Cathy Freeman -
I can't imagine any reasonably responsible person arguing against the abortion of mongols ... If we could tell what foetuses are going to be affected with cancer in their 40s and 50s, I would be for aborting them now.
-- Cecil Jacobson -
It ain't like we're curing cancer or anything, we're watching basketball.
-- Charles Barkley -
For many years there have been treatments available which are successful and usually NOT harmful for diseases, such as AIDS, cancer, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, organ regeneration and other diseases. One by one these treatments and their creators or proponents have been targeted by the FDA, which I call the "office of orthodoxy enforcement," illegally using just powers derived from the consent of governed. These forms of tyranny are always accompanied by multi agency intrusions or harassment, confiscation of private medical files, censorship of written materials and threats or prosecution.
-- Charles C. Pixley -
... I feel the American public would be in a better position to exercise freedom of dietary choice if it were stated in bold print on the Goals and Food Selection pages that the value of dietary change remains controversial and that science cannot at this time insure that an altered diet will provide improved protection from certain killer diseases such as heart disease and cancer.
-- Charles H. Percy -
In my practice as surgeon, I am impressed by the alarming increase of cancer cases brought to my notice; an increase, which in the light of the general hygienic and sanitary improvements of our time, can point to no other cause than the indulgence in certain foodstuffs detrimental to normal life of the body.
-- Charles Horace Mayo -
I think any cancer patient, if you dig not too deeply, they want to live.
-- Charles Jencks -
I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995.
-- Charles Jencks -
The health dollar is very precious. When someone has such a bad condition as brain cancer, we know they're going to die and they're usually going to die within 12 months of diagnosis. They cost a lot of money to keep the patient alive for that period of time. Is it really worth it?
-- Charles Teo -
Millions of Americans every year depend upon medical imaging exams to diagnose disease and detect injury, and thousands more rely on radiation therapy to treat and cure their cancers.
-- Charles W. Pickering -
This show has shown me how to throw a punch. But watching my future sister-in-law go through breast cancer has also shown me how to take one.
-- Charlotte Ross -
Having an energy conversation without talking about climate is like talking about smoking and not talking about cancer.
-- Chris Hayes -
Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.
-- Chris Van Hollen -
I am a 36-year-old person with breast cancer, and not many people know that that happens to women my age or women in their 20s. This is my opportunity now to go out and fight as hard as I can for early detection.
-- Christina Applegate -
I was just shaking and then also immediately, I had to go into 'take-care-of-business-mode' which included a change to a more healthy diet.
-- Christina Applegate -
Sometimes, you know, I cry. And sometimes I scream. And I get really angry. And I get really upset, you know, into wallowing in self-pity sometimes. And I think that it's all part of the healing.
-- Christina Applegate -
I laughed more in the hospital than I ever have in my life, making fun of all the weird things that were happening to me.
-- Christina Applegate -
One can't live without fear, it's a question of what is your attitude towards fear? I'm afraid of a sordid death. I'm afraid that I will die in an ugly or squalid way, and cancer can be very vigorous in that respect.
-- Christopher Hitchens -
I'd like to prove to other people that it's not the end of everything to be diagnosed with cancer.
-- Christopher Hitchens -
If you've led a rather bohemian and rackety life, as I have, it's precisely the cancer that you'd expect to get. That's a bit of a yawn.
-- Christopher Hitchens -
Only the gospel exposes the cancer of idolatry.
-- Christopher J. H. Wright -
More people have died in the name of religion than have ever died of cancer. And we try to cure cancer... What makes us take up arms against those who pray to the same God with different words?
-- Chuck Austen -
I think governments are the cancer of civilization.
-- Chuck D -
The cancer I don't have is everywhere now.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
As young people we want something to slow us down and keep us trapped in one place long enough to look below the surface of the world. That disaster is a car crash or a war. To make us sit still. It can be getting cancer or getting pregnant. The important part is how it seems to catch us by surprise. That disaster stops us from living the life we'd planned as children - a life of constant dashing around.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
I don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer.
-- Cindy Crawford -
You tell me the truth. You tell me that my son died for oil. You tell me that my son died to make your friends rich. You tell me my son died to spread the cancer of Pax Americana, imperialism in the Middle East.
-- Cindy Sheehan -
I always used to say to myself, I'm going to die of lung cancer. That's the choice I'm making.
-- Clive Owen -
You have to pay attention to who you are. You need to know your family history as well as you can. It is important for young women to have preventive care. If you catch any women's cancers early it's the difference between life and death. Do you really want to leave your kids without a mother?
-- Cokie Roberts -
Fortunately I am not the first person to tell you that you will never die. You simply lose your body. You will be the same except you won't have to worry about rent or mortgages or fashionable clothes. You will be released from sexual obsessions. You will not have drug addictions. You will not need alcohol. You will not have to worry about cellulite or cigarettes or cancer or AIDS or venereal disease. You will be free.
-- Cookie Mueller -
If we stop exploring space, we're going to lose the same part of us that found vaccines and penicillin, the part that searches for cures to cancer and AIDS.
-- Corbin Bernsen -
Oprah is signed on to help, and a lot of celebrity friends have agreed to help me raise money for Make-A-Wish. We want to make the world a better place for innocent children. I cried my heart out when my father died from cancer. I wish I was smarter, wiser like a doctor, to save these children from dying.
-- Criss Angel -
Somebody gotta tell you this: Cancer kills way more Americans than any Arabic terrorist. We use more money to fight them than finding a cure, So a little kid sits there with his chemo-therapist. Hair falling out while his vital signs weaken... He'll be dead while his parent are in debt for his treatment.
-- Crooked i -
I wanted to create a multibillion dollar company that lets me go out and let us go out and change the world and create a Skin Cancer Awareness Center that costs a quarter a billion dollars.
-- Curt Schilling -
Cancer is really hard to go through and it's really hard to watch someone you love go through, and I know because I have been on both sides of the equation.
-- Cynthia Nixon -
I feel that between my experience and my mother's, breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what that person looks like and what their daily habits are.
-- Cynthia Nixon -
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. So the only thing to really be afraid of is if you don't go get your mammograms.
-- Cynthia Nixon -
Now I have a third must-do on my list of things to do with cancer, and it's this: follow your gut, ask questions, don't be complacent.
-- Cynthia Nixon -
My mother has battled breast cancer three times.
-- Cynthia Nixon -
I always sort of thought, 'I'm probably going to get breast cancer. There's a really good chance.'
-- Cynthia Nixon -
Anger is the real destroyer of our good human qualities; an enemy with a weapon cannot destroy these qualities, but anger can. Anger is our real enemy.
-- Dalai Lama -
To go to hospitals and see people fight and overcome cystic fibrosis or cancer or any number of illnesses is to see courage that is humbling. And athletes constantly need to be humbled.
-- Dale Murphy -
The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer
-- Dan Simmons -
I know what cancer was. How is it like humankind?" Sek Hardeen's perfectly modulated, softly accented tones showed a hint of agitation. "We have spread out through the galaxy like cancer cells through a living body, Duré. We multiply without thought to the countless life forms that must die or be pushed aside so that we may breed and flourish. We eradicate competing forms of intelligent life.
-- Dan Simmons -
Just when you think you're coming out and you think, 'OK, I see the light at the end of the tunnel,' then I got this diagnosis.
-- Dana Reeve -
At the moment developing a nice little inoffensive cancer somewhere on dry land seemed infinitely preferable to what she was grimly convinced was soon to be her death by drowning way too far out at sea.
-- Dana Stabenow -
We are all inspired by the incredible stories of handicapped people who write novels with their toes, cancer victims who run marathons for cancer research, bereaved parents who set up memorial funds for their lost children. How much easier is it for most of us to be small heroes simply by taking responsibility for our daily lives and transcending our ordinary obstacles?
-- Danah Zohar -
My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.
-- Danica Patrick -
Together, we can put the brakes on breast cancer...
-- Danica Patrick -
New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.
-- Daniel Kahikina Akaka -
After approximately two decades and several billion dollars....Among the various types of cancer that account for 78% of the incidence..the upward trend in survival rates has not exceeded a few %....a far gloomier picture than has been generally conveyed to a hopeful public by our leading cancer research institutions...A generally passive lay press has been the means of transmission.
-- Daniel S. Greenberg -
I hope we find a cure for every major disease, because I'm tired of walking 5K. I'm pretty sure I don't have to sweat for cancer. I'll write a check.
-- Daniel Tosh -
Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get to me. Everything wasn't as hunky-dory like it was.
-- Darren Aronofsky -
I'm starting to understand that fear is like cancer - you can beat it back, but if it returns, it can be worse than ever.
-- Darren Shan -
Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief.
-- Dave Grohl -
You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It's a mindset.
-- Dave Pelzer -
Hate is a cancer that spreads one cell at a time.
-- Dave Pelzer -
We have forgotten that curing cancer starts with preventing cancer in the first place.
-- David Agus -
Cancer is the ultimate nemesis that hangs in the balance for one in three women and one in two men in their lifetime.
-- David Agus -
We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of prevention is worth more than a million pounds of cure.
-- David Agus -
When are we going to say cancer is cured? I'm not sure when that will happen, if that will happen because cancer is a very slippery disease and it involves a vast number of cells in the body and those cells are continually mutating.
-- David Baltimore -
Race relations can be an appropriate issue... but only if you want to craft solutions, and not catalogue complaints. If we use the issue appropriately, we can transform it from the cancer of our society into the cure.
-- David Dinkins -
Never to have seen anything but the temperate zone is to have lived on the fringe of the world. Between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer live the majority of all the plant species, the vast majority of the insects, most of the strange ... quadrupeds, all of the great and most of the poisonous snakes and large lizards, most of the brilliantly colored sea fishes, and the strangest and most gorgeously plumaged of the birds.
-- David Fairchild -
Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.
-- David Foreman -
My mom was truly an iconic figure, a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever having revealed to viewers that she was ill.
-- David Frum -
Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed.
-- David Hackworth -
Sin is like a cancer that destroys step by step, sometimes so slowly we don't realize what's happening to us.
-- David Jeremiah -
Dementia is our most-feared illness, more than heart disease or cancer.
-- David Perlmutter -
Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.
-- David R. Brower
