Alzheimer's Quotes - Page 3

• One thing I have no worry about is whether God exists. But it has occurred to me that God has Alzheimer's and has forgotten we exist.

  Jane Wagner

  Spiritual, Atheist, Science

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• Before you can kill a demon, you have to be able to say it's name. Names have power. While the word Alzheimer's terrorizes us, it has power over us. When we are prepared to discuss it aloud, we might have power over it. It's thought of as a mental illness and it is a physical illness, affecting the brain. There should be no shame in having it, yet people still don't talk about it

  Terry Pratchett

  Alzheimer's, Names, People

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• Man's memory shapes Its own Eden within

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Memories, Men, Alzheimer's

  Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Dreamtigers”, p.76, University of Texas Press

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• I gave three years of my life to take care of my dying mother who had Alzheimer's disease. Being there for her every need for three years might have looked codependent but it wasn't because it was what I wanted to do.

  Melody Beattie

  Mother, Alzheimer's, Years

  Interview with Martha Rosenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 14, 2011.

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• True, God hates Alzheimer's, spinal cord injury, mental illness, autism, and the rest (these conditions are all symptoms of the Fall). Yet he permits these things to accomplish something far more precious in our lives: patience, endurance, compassion for others who hurt, and refined faith and trust in God, to name a few.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Hurt, Hate, Fall

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• With Alzheimer's patients, you have to be very careful what you say when you're looking at them over their bed. Because once in a while, they understand it.

  Nancy Reagan

  Alzheimer's, Bed, Patient

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• People with Alzheimer's deserve to be seen, so that we can find a cure!

  Julianne Moore

  Alzheimer's, People, Cures

  "The Oscars". TV Special, www.imdb.com. 2015.

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• Somehow, knowing that Alzheimer's is coming mocks all one's aspirations - to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do, to be recognised for one's accomplishments and hard work - in a way that old familiar death does not.

  Jane Smiley

  Hard Work, Thinking, Alzheimer's

  "With the benefit of foresight..." by Jane Smiley, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2002.

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• Before my mother's diagnosis with Alzheimer's, I had heard of the disease, but hadn't known anyone who had suffered from it.

  Kevin Whately

  Mother, Alzheimer's, Disease

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• We are living in the United States of Alzheimer's. A whole country has lost its memory. When it can't remember yesterday, a country forgets what it once wanted to be.

  Studs Terkel

  Country, Memories, Alzheimer's

  "What I've Learned: Studs Terkel" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 6, 2008.

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• Our intention is not to create cloned human beings, but rather to make lifesaving therapies for a wide range of human disease conditions, including diabetes, strokes, cancer, AIDS, and neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease.

  Robert Lanza

  Cancer, Alzheimer's, Disease

  "Company behind the clones: Advanced Cell Technology" by Porter Anderson, www.cnn.com. November 25, 2001.

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• If I had been Terry Pratchett the farmer, or Terry Pratchett the dentist, nobody would have paid any attention if I had announced I had Alzheimer's. But there is something fascinating about an author losing the power over words.

  Terry Pratchett

  Alzheimer's, Attention, Losing

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• Dementia is often regarded as an embarrassing condition that should be hushed up and not spoken about. But I feel passionately that more needs to be done to raise awareness, which is why I became an ambassador for the Alzheimer's Society.

  Kevin Whately

  Alzheimer's, Needs, Done

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• I believe that if your brain has to get to grips with complicated words, then you won't get Alzheimer's. I'm sure it's not true, but I do believe it.

  Jo Brand

  Believe, Alzheimer's, Brain

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• Like Joe Biden and so many other Americans, I've lost people I love deeply to cancer. I've heard often from those whose loved ones are suffering from Alzheimer's, addiction, and other debilitating diseases. Their heartbreak is real, and so we have a responsibility to respond with real solutions.

  Barack Obama

  Real, Cancer, Responsibility

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I have a particular passion and focus on Alzheimer's and diseases of dementia. There's just so much scientifically that we don't know, and we can know.

  Miles D. White

  Passion, Alzheimer's, Focus

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• Alzheimer's disease is never an 'accident' in a marriage. It falls under the purview of God's sovereignty. In the case of someone with Alzheimer's, this means God's unconditional and sacrificial love has an opportunity to be even more gloriously displayed in a life together.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Love, Fall, Mean

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• If God gave Dad Alzheimer’s, He’s got to understand when Dad forgets what church he belongs to.

  Joanne Fluke

  Dad, Alzheimer's, Church

  Joanne Fluke (2011). “Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder”, p.14, Kensington Books

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• I said, 'The nice thing about Alzheimer's is you get to hide your own Easter eggs.'

  John McCain

  Easter, Nice, Alzheimer's

  "McCain's humor often backfires" by Ben Smith, www.politico.com. July 17, 2008.

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• The simplest way to look at all these associations, between obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, cancer, and Alzheimer's (not to mention the other the conditions that also associate with obesity and diabetes, such as gout, asthma, and fatty liver disease), is that what makes us fat - the quality and quantity of carbohydrates we consume - also makes us sick.

  Gary Taubes

  Cancer, Heart, Alzheimer's

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• I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its unique capacity to organize or reorganize cerebral function when it has been damaged.

  Oliver Sacks

  Unique, Alzheimer's, Tools

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• [A primate ban] would force us to abandon research that could lead to treatments for Alzheimer's, motor neurone disease, strokes and many other illnesses

  Tipu Aziz

  Animal, Alzheimer's, Research

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• We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts.

  J. William Fulbright

  Positive Thinking, Alzheimer's, Dare

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• I loved my husband very much, and it was heartbreaking to have him develop Alzheimer's disease, and to stand by and watch him decline in his ability to take care of himself.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Husband, Alzheimer's, Heartbreaking

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• Doesn't matter whether it's a teen girl who's pregnant, hasn't told her parents, or an elderly couple dealing with one of them being diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Those are real people to me. Those are the people I dealt with every single day.

  Mike Huckabee

  Girl, Couple, Real

  "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" with Kim Lawton, www.pbs.org. September 16, 2007.

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