Top 1200 People With Cancer Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Conventional cancer treatments are in place as the law of the land because they pay, not heal, the best.

I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.

I hate to talk about typecasting, because being typecast as Columbo ain't cancer.

I am a product... I'm a comedian. I'm not curing cancer. In the end, I tell jokes. I make people laugh. I make sense out of ridiculous situations, but in the end, it's all about laughter. It's all about your cheek hurting, your stomach hurting.

Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.

I consider myself pretty fearless, but the one thing I have always been frightened of is cancer.

In my mid-twenties, I said to myself: 'I can't perform anymore!' I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't perform for a while, then ended up doing a one-woman show about Gilda Radner having cancer. It was called 'Gilda Defying Gravity,' and I did it on the Lower East Side. It was great; people really came out and supported me.

Once cancer happens it changes the way you live for the rest of your life.

Live today as if you don't have tomorrow: my husband was diagnosed and killed by cancer within six months.

Skin cancer became personal to my family when my father was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma.

I believe the biggest breakthroughs on cancer could come from brilliant researchers based in India.

Tobacco, UV rays, viruses, heredity, and age are the main causes of cancer.

If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.

I had a cancer scare in the early 90s, and for a few months, I wondered if I would make it.

When our bodies are violated by this horrible disease of cancer, we're in total shock because it's so unexpected.

Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.

The only reason to have a positive mental attitude is that it makes life better. It doesn't cure cancer.

The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering.

Who wants to get a worse diagnosis of their cancer, just to keep a human doctor in the job?

I've always been quite driven so it wasn't like the cancer was my wake-up call.

If you could read some of the stories that we had before us of parents of children dying of, let's say, bone cancer. Or people who dealt with family members drowning in their own bodies, in the end, suffering without any hope of modern medical science easing their pain or offering any comfort. With the absolute knowledge that they were going to die anyway. I can't quite comprehend how we could want those people to continue to suffer that extreme agony on the understanding that it is the will of a creator or some other philosophical concept.

I attacked my cancer diagnosis the same way I attack training and competing, and that's pretty fearless.

If you have lung cancer, the most important thing you can know is your genetic code.

I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.

I know my children will never have to say, 'Mom died of ovarian cancer.'

Scores of studies support the power of certain natural foods to prevent cancer.

I know that societies often have killed people who have helped to change those societies. And if I can die having brought any light, having exposed any meaningful truth that will help destroy the racist cancer that is malignant in the body of America, then, all credit is due to Allah. Only the mistakes have been mine.

When someone has cancer, the whole family and everyone who loves them does, too.

I cannot escape the feeling that I was, at best, a cancer tourist, that my survival means I dabbled.

Cancer has touched my life and the lives of those I love, and now I'm ready to help all that I can in the fight.

Obviously, cancer has affected my life, mostly everyone in the world in some level.

In 2001, I was being treated for breast cancer, and I was pretty sure I was going to recover.

The Revlon Run/Walk effort to focus on women's cancer has my wholehearted support and gratitude.

My main frustration is the fear of cancer from low dose radiation, even by radiologists.

The only reason I've ever had to wear a hat is to avoid skin cancer.

That was just kind of a surprise when the doctor said, 'We did a biopsy on your appendix, and you have cancer.'

Years ago I watched my 1st wife suffer through cancer and she went to be with Jesus.

Terrorism is not a public health threat, relative to cancer and heart disease and malaria and so forth.

Spending the day with you has been marginally better than watching mother die of cancer.

How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives?

I come from amazing DNA, I watched my mom fight and win against breast cancer.

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity.

Florida's number three industry, behind tourism and skin cancer, is voter fraud.

You know, Mike Milken, the money that he has raised for cancer research has been remarkable.

... I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Suddenly I had to spend all my time getting well.

The failure to think positively can weigh on a cancer patient like a second disease.

A lot of other wealthy people feel the responsibility to take some of the wealth they've been given and give back: to give a lot of money to a particular cancer charity or to a group researching some particular disease or their alma mater. We haven't really found anything like that with Trump.

In 2002, my daughter was diagnosed with a rare form of colon cancer. And it was such a shock, a surprise to us.

The only things that are immortal in this world are government programs and cancer cells in petri dishes.

Cancer got me over unimportant fears, like getting old.

If you've ever had a brush with cancer, you're always thinking a pain might be something serious.

Writing about cancer is always a challenge for me because it hits so close to home.

Having a mother who has had cancer and fought through it and at times used cannabis to you know fight off nausea and whatnot. I mean it's not really her thing, but there were times when she needed it and the idea that you can't have it because it's an illegal drug, but OxyContin is legal. That's you know that's just insane to a level that I think most people understand.

Above all, cancer is a spiritual practice that teaches me about faith and resilience.

The creator who could put a cancer in a believer's stomach is above being interfered with by prayers.

Liberalism is a cancer; it's a forest fire; it destroys every single thing it touches.

I will go so far as to say probably smoking had something to do with my pancreatic cancer.

Such a strange thing. What was terrible for a healthy fetus has been wonderful at defeating the cancer cells.

We have thousands of patients and family members who are dealing with dual devastation, cancer and the hurricane.

If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.