Alzheimer's Quotes

• You get the health benefits of coffee up through about the first twenty-four ounces. It's the biggest source of antioxidants for Americans, and we think it helps prevent Alzheimer's and Parkinson's as well.

  Mehmet Oz

  Coffee, Thinking, Alzheimer's

  "16 Quick Questions for Dr. Oz" by Mehmet Oz and Joel Harper, www.esquire.com. October 4, 2007.

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• Irish Alzheimer's: you forget everything except the grudges

  Judy Collins

  Alzheimer's, Forget Everything, Funny Irish

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• Caring for an Alzheimer's patient is a situation that can utterly consume the lives and well-being of the people giving care, just as the disorder consumes its victims.

  Leeza Gibbons

  Caring, Alzheimer's, People

  "Leeza Gibbons: Star in the World of Alzheimer’s Caregiving" by Marie Marley, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2016.

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• I have recently been told that I am one of the millions of Americans who will be afflicted with Alzheimer's Disease. . .. I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.

  Ronald Reagan

  Sunset, Journey, Alzheimer's

  Letter to the American people, 5 Nov. 1994

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• You know, people get frustrated because their loved ones who have Alzheimer's, oh, he doesn't recognize me anymore, how can I recognize this person, if they don't recognize me? They're not the same person. Well, they are the same person, but they've got a brain disease. And it's not their fault they've got this disease.

  Ron Reagan

  Alzheimer's, People, Frustrated

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• Alzheimer's disease locks all the doors and exits. There is no reprieve, no escape.

  Patti Davis

  Alzheimer's, Doors, Locks

  Patti Davis (2004). “The Long Goodbye”, Knopf

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• My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because that person is aware that they're losing awareness. And I think that that's why my father started growing more and more quiet.

  Patti Davis

  Father, Thinking, Alzheimer's

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• I often hear people say that a person suffering from Alzheimer's is not the person they knew. I wonder to myself - Who are they then?

  Bob DeMarco

  Alzheimer's, People, Suffering

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• Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.

  Pat Summitt

  Fighting, Alzheimer's, Competition

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• I am committed to helping Alzheimer's Society in any way I can. My family and I rely on the help of organisations like Alzheimer's Society to help us understand the disease and guide us in the care of my grandmother. It's been a privilege to meet so many people with dementia.

  Carey Mulligan

  Grandmother, Alzheimer's, People

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• The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work.

  David Suzuki

  Cancer, Moving, Heart

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• Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Truth, Honesty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.165, Harvard University Press

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• Alzheimer's ... it is a barren disease, as empty and lifeless as a desert. It is a thief of hearts and souls and memories.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Memories, Heart, Alzheimer's

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• Suffering is always hard to quantify - especially when the pain is caused by as cruel a disease as Alzheimer's. Most illnesses attack the body; Alzheimer's destroys the mind - and in the process, annihilates the very self.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Pain, Alzheimer's, Self

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• The best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I've got Alzheimer's.

  Terry Pratchett

  Alzheimer's, Alzheimer, Best Things

  "'The best thing I ever did was stand up and say I have Alzheimer's': Terry Pratchett speaks to Fiona Phillips". www.mirror.co.uk. November 14, 2012.

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• The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

  Sigmund Freud

  Leadership, Alzheimer's, Water

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• 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, Heart, Alzheimer's

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• It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cancer, Alzheimer's, Differences

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• Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer's.

  Jerry Stiller

  Alzheimer's, Alzheimer, Sitcom

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

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• Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, brain and spinal cord disorders, diabetes, cancer, at least 58 diseases could potentially be cured through stem cell research, diseases that touch every family in America and in the world.

  Rosa DeLauro

  Cancer, Alzheimer's, Cells

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• Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspiration, Men, Alzheimer's

  Lacon Vol. I, Ch. 324

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• Every thought you think and every word you speak is affirming something.

  Louise Hay

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Alzheimer's

  Louise Hay (2011). “21 Days to Master Affirmations”, p.7, Hay House, Inc

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• It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one was Alzheimers, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimers.

  Terry Pratchett

  Alzheimer's, Disease And Death, Two

  "'A butt of my own jokes': Terry Pratchett on the disease that finally claimed him" by Terry Pratchett, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2015.

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• As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it attacks the two things most central to a writer's craft - language and memory, which together make up an individual's identity. Alzheimer's makes a new character out of a familiar person.

  Charlie Pierce

  Memories, Character, Alzheimer's

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• I hate Alzheimer's. It is one of the most awful things because, here is a loved one, this is the woman or man that you have loved for 20, 30, 40 years, and suddenly, that person is gone. They're gone. They are gone.

  Pat Robertson

  Hate, Men, Alzheimer's

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