Cancer Quotes - Page 5

• 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

  Sports, Wife, Guy

  "Sunday Conversation: Brett Favre". Interview With Suzy Kolber, www.espn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I'm not a dreamer, and I'm not saying this will initiate any kind of definitive answer or cure to cancer, but I believe in miracles. I have to.

  Terry Fox

  Believe, Miracle, Dreamer

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

  Dolly Parton

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Twitter post from May 11, 2010

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• I thought I knew what fear was, until I heard the words 'You have cancer'.

  Lance Armstrong

  Heard

  Lance Armstrong (2012). “It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life”, p.51, Random House

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• Cancer is a word, not a sentence.

  John Diamond

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Healing

  C by John Diamond p. 75. Vermilion, London (1998)

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• I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something - that may not be very clear to me right now - but that I will do.

  Farrah Fawcett

  May, Holding On, Reason

  "Farrah Fawcett Fought for Privacy While Battling Cancer" by Sharyn Alsonfi, Anna Wild, Kelly Hagan, Imaeyen Ibanga, abcnews.go.com. May 12, 2009.

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• My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it.

  Sarah Polley

  Mom, Thinking, Best Effort

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• People should be afraid of the cancer, not the mammogram.

  Nancy Reagan

  Inspirational, People, Mammograms

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• 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

  Inspirational, Real, Enemy

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• It gave me a chance to re-evaluate my life and my career. Cancer certainly gives things a new perspective. I would not have won the Tour de France if I had not had cancer. It gave me new strength and focus.

  Lance Armstrong

  Careers, Giving, Perspective

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• I am so grateful for my physical therapist, Teresa England, who taught me to respect the process of recovery. Healing is sometimes slow, and any pace but fast was alien to me. To me, the idea of patience and gradual progress was a very foreign idea. I truly learned patience from this woman, and how to appreciate the smallest signs of improvement.

  Tara Subkoff

  Grateful, Healing, Recovery

  "Tara Subkoff: 'I Survived a Brain Tumor'" by Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. Apr 17, 2010.

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• The present treatments for brain cancer are not curative. We need new and better treatments. More funding for research. Legislation to improve the research system and to provide better access to care, treatment, and rehabilitation services for all brain tumor survivors.

  Shannon O'Brien

  Brain, Needs, Survivor

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• Brain tumor survivors: don't become hopelessly discouraged if you are experiencing deficits. You in a war and you are bound to have a few battle wounds.

  Rachel Grady

  War, Battle Wounds, Brain

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• Cancer is not for sissies.

  Suzanne Somers

  Survival, Sissy, Cancer Survival

  "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. March 28, 2001.

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• Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire; it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire.

  W. H. Auden

  Men, Fire, Creative

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• I look upon cancer in the same way that I look upon heart disease, arthritis, high blood pressure, or even obesity, for that matter, in that by dramatically strengthening the body's immune system through diet, nutritional supplements, and exercise, the body can rid itself of the cancer, just as it does in other degenerative diseases. Consequently, I wouldn't have chemotherapy and radiation because I'm not interested in therapies that cripple the immune system, and, in my opinion, virtually ensure failure for the majority of cancer patients.

  Julian Whitaker

  Heart, Exercise, Blood

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• Already published reports, as well as our own observations indicate that smallpox vaccination sometimes produces manifestations of leukemia. In children and adults observed in the clinics of Cracow, smallpox vaccination has been followed by violent local and general reactions and by leukemia.

  Julian Aleksandrowicz

  Children, Adults, Sometimes

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• Two to 4% of cancers respond to chemotherapy....The bottom line is for a few kinds of cancer chemo is a life extending procedure-Hodgkin's disease, Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL), Testicular cancer, and Choriocarcinoma.

  Ralph W. Moss

  Two, Lines, Disease

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• I'm much more of a Leo than I am a Cancer.

  Tim Gunn

  "Tim Gunn on interviewing Dolly Parton and going to Woodstock in penny loafers". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 14, 2016.

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• Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer.

  Dick Francis

  People, Cancer Survivor, Died

  Dick Francis (2006). “Straight”, p.104, Penguin

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• Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

  Mark Twain

  Good Life, Positive Thinking, Adversity

  Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner “The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.]: The American claimant and other stories and sketches”

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• The cancer of time is eating us away

  Henry Miller

  Time, Eating, Tropic Of Cancer

  Henry Miller, Norman Mailer (1976). “Genius and lust: a journey through the major writings of Henry Miller”, Grove Press

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• Progressivism is the cancer in America, and it is eating our Constitution. It was designed to eat the Constitution, to progress past the Constitution.

  Glenn Beck

  Past, America, Progress

  Glenn Beck's Keynote Speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference, www.c-span.org. February 20, 2010.

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• Breast cancer deaths in America have been declining for more than a decade. Much of that success is due to early detection and better treatments for women. I strongly encourage women to get a mammogram.

  Larry Craig

  America, Mammograms, Treatment

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