Cancer Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“When Mrs. Bush was First Lady, she went all over the Mideast talking about breast cancer awareness and the need for early screening. She did this in places where the cultures prohibit such discussion or even detection efforts.”
– Greta Van Susteren

“Another inspiration that has helped me get through has been Lance Armstrong’s story. My cancer is not nearly as bad as his, but I believe in staying motivated and keeping as fit as you can.”
– Grete Waitz

“In terms of fitness and battling through cancer, exercise helps you stay strong physically and mentally.”
– Grete Waitz

“If I’m diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they might need connections with somebody outside their circle of family because their family is so despondent.”
– Gus Van Sant

“This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.”
– Harold Pinter

“You can see a person’s whole life in the cancer they get.”
– Haruki Murakami

“She had six months at most left to live. She had cancer, she hissed. A filthy growth eating her insides away. There was an operation, she’d been told. They took half your stomach out and fitted you up with a plastic bag. Better a semicolon than a full stop, some might say.”
– Helen Hodgman

“But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer – that word means to most people ultimate death – I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way.”
– Herbie Mann

“I recently formed a foundation to raise awareness for prostate cancer. I feel it’s very necessary that men be more aware about prostate cancer and their health in general.”
– Herbie Mann

“Think about it: Look at the strides of awareness and treatment and tests that women have had with breast cancer, that the gay community has had with AIDS, because they’re active and they talk about it.”
– Herbie Mann

“When you get cancer, it’s like really time to look at what your life was and is, and I decided that everything I’ve done so far is not as important as what I’m going to do now.”
– Herbie Mann

“Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.”
– Ike Skelton

“In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.”
– Ike Skelton

“Cancer victims who don’t accept their fate, who don’t learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.”
– Ingrid Bergman

“Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.”
– Ingrid Bergman

“Man, it was a good thing vampires didn’t get cancer. Lately he’d been chain-smoking like a felon.”
– J.R. Ward

“To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don’t be discouraged that my own journey hasn’t gone as well as I had hoped. You must not lose your own hope.”
– Jack Layton

“Until I was diagnosed with mouth cancer, I’d never heard of it.”
– Jack Wild

“Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body.”
– James Larkin

“A quick example of that is a woman who said she’d been healed of throat cancer where the faith healer admitted he touched her on the forehead.”
– James Randi

“I questioned her further, and eventually got to talk to her doctor. And her doctor sort of shook his head and he said, ‘I have examined her for throat cancer at least 15 times in the past few years.”
– James Randi

“My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.”
– Jane Pauley

“I would love to start a cancer organization.”
– Jason Derulo

“Finally, after a lot of searching and digging, it was simply the love of family that gave me a road into the character. Once I got into that, and we delved into what it would be like to survive cancer and the ability to see how precious life is, it became easier to play her.”
– Jeanne Tripplehorn

“I’ve been to enough other countries in the world to know what happens when you have socialized single-payer health care. It works. People don’t get sick as much. They don’t lose their life savings with a catastrophic illness like cancer or AIDS.”
– Jello Biafra

“But all that is warm will go cold. My ears will fall off and my eyes will melt. My mouth will be clamped shut. My lips will turn to glue.
– Jenny Downham

“Death straps me to the hospital bed, claws its way onto my chest and sits there. I didn’t know it would hurt this much. I didn’t know that everything good that’s ever happened in my life would be emptied out by it.”
– Jenny Downham

“If I found the cure for dystrophy tomorrow, I would do a telethon in four weeks for acute pain that in this country is a bigger problem than cancer, heart, sickle cell, anemia, name it. It is – it’s hitting 70 million Americans.”
– Jerry Lewis

“If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain’t no hospital going to lock him out.”
– Jesse Jackson

“Today we fight. Tomorrow we fight. The day after, we fight. And if this disease plans on whipping us, it better bring a lunch, ’cause it’s gonna have a long day doing it.”
– Jim Beaver

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