Cancer Survivor Quotes - Page 3

• Regardless of one victory, two victories, four victories, there's never been a victory by a cancer survivor. That's a fact that hopefully I'll be remembered for.

  Lance Armstrong

  Cancer, Two, Victory

  "Armstrong shows them who's boss" by Keith B. Richburg, www.sfgate.com. July 29, 2002.

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• Being a breast cancer survivor, as I like to call myself - it will be twenty years next year - I did it to make it possible for women to do regular self breast examinations. It's really important - and, it makes common sense: you know your body better than the doctor does who only sees you once a year, you know?

  Olivia Newton-John

  Cancer, Self, Years

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• An estimated 2 million American women will be diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer this decade and screening could prevent up to 30% of these deaths for women over 40.

  Matthew Lesko

  Cancer, Breasts, Screening

  Matthew Lesko, Mary Ann Martello (1999). “Free Stuff for Busy Moms”, Information USA Incorporated

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• Unfortunately, cancer is the number one killer of children in this country today, and it destroys not only these innocent victims, but their families as well.

  Michael McCaul

  Country, Children, Cancer

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

  Steve Ballmer

  Cancer, Intellectual, Linux

  "Microsoft CEO takes launch break with the Sun-Times". Interview with Dave Newbart, web.archive.org. June 1, 2001.

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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

  Cancer, Past, America

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

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• I began by telling the President that there was a cancer growing on the presidency, and if the cancer was not removed, the president himself would be killed by it.

  John Dean

  Cancer, President, Would Be

  "The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. November 4, 1987.

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• I am living in Norway, where I am under the care of the best cancer doctor in Norway and I can be closer to my family.

  Grete Waitz

  Cancer, Doctors, Survivor

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• We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy.

  Jerry Doyle

  Cancer, Childhood, Enemy

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• Well, right now, technically, I have no breast cancer.

  Lynn Redgrave

  Cancer, Breasts, Wells

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

  Loni Anderson

  Cancer, Disease, Involved

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• I am a breast cancer survivor. I was intrigued to learn how many people prefer to talk to someone if they are familiar with their face, like an actor or a politician. So, I began traveling around the country and doing speeches.

  Diahann Carroll

  Country, Cancer, People

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

  Petrarch

  Friendship, Cancer, Suspicion

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• Me: Well, you see, I, uh, I'm a cancer survivor. Person #1: And how's that working out for you? Me: Well, you see, I, uh, used to have leukemia. Person #2: Dude, how come you're not, like, BALD? Me: Well, you see, I, uh, I had acute lymphocytic lymphoma when I was five. Person #3: Whoa. THAT must'a sucked. I once had my tonsils out.

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Cancer, Work Out, Survivor

  Jordan Sonnenblick (2011). “After Ever After”, p.54, Scholastic Inc.

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• Cancer Boy probably has the saddest, noblest, sweetest heart of any character I've ever done.

  Bruce McCulloch

  Cancer, Heart, Character

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• This show has shown me how to throw a punch. But watching my future sister-in-law go through breast cancer has also shown me how to take one.

  Charlotte Ross

  Cancer, Sister In Law, My Future

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

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• Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get to me. Everything wasn't as hunky-dory like it was.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Cancer, Fighting, Parent

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

  Dick Francis

  Cancer, People, Died

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

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• I was actually very pleased that they let me do it, because I feel very deeply for breast cancer survivors. I don't have it, but it is in my family. I've always been very aware of it. I go for mammograms and checkups.

  Erika Slezak

  Cancer, Survivor, Mammograms

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• 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

  Cancer, Important, Looks

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• 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

  Cancer, Example, Said

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• I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.

  Jodi Rell

  Cancer, Mortality, My Own

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

  Jonas Salk

  Cancer, Cells, Viruses

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• Saying sulfates do not cause acid rain is the same as saying that smoking does not cause lung cancer.

  Andrew L. Lewis, Jr.

  Cancer, Rain, Smoking

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• I'm praying that was my one little dip in the cancer pool. I hope never to have to revisit that, but I learned a lot, I'm cancer free with a bright and hopeful future.

  Julie Gold

  Cancer, Hopeful, Littles

  Interview with Angela Page, www.wjffradio.org. June 24, 2000.

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