Cancer Quotes - Page 22

• Nothing I did contributed to me having cancer, so I can't sit back and say, 'Oh why me.' Why not me? Why does tragedy always have to hit someone else?

  Eric Davis

  Tragedy, Doe, Why Not

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every now and again I just really have to have that steak or lamb chop. But yeah, B.C. - before cancer - I would eat red meat probably three or four times a week, easily. I am convinced that the amount of red meat I contributed to it.

  Robin Roberts

  Red, Meat, Three

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• USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.

  Ezra Pound

  Cutting, Knives, World

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• Have I told you I have cancer? It's a very special kind of cancer. Cancer of the soul.

  Thom Yorke

  Soul, Special, Kind

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• I hate to sound self absorbed, but I'm just going to cast out this pearl of wisdom, if I could give the whole world cancer and kill them and be the last man on earth it would be a sign that god loves me especially.

  Thom Yorke

  Hate, Men, Self

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• Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Running, Heart, Thinking

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• Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre is a genuine project and a living proof of generosity of the people of Pakistan.

  Hadiqa Kiani

  People, Generosity, Memorial

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• Eventually cancer becomes just another annoying thing that you deal with, you know, like cellulite.

  Kris Carr

  Annoying, Deals, Cellulite

  "Crazy, sexy...cancer?". Interview with Erin Zammett Ruddy, www.glamour.com. July 31, 2007.

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• I was asleep at the wheel before cancer shook me awake.

  Kris Carr

  Wheels, Awake

  "Celebrating a Decade Thriving With Cancer" by Kris Carr, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 21, 2013.

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• With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease -- because it has not expressed itself. Passion moves inward, striking and blighting the deepest cellular recesses.

  Susan Sontag

  Moving, Passion, Character

  Susan Sontag (1979). “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage

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• I got worries by the ton, getting cancer's only one. Over taxed and alimonied, tired of eating fried baloney.

  Neil Diamond

  Tired, Sadness, Worry

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• You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Should Have, Known, Should

  "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar updates health". www.espn.com. February 10, 2011.

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• Cancer touches every family in one way or another. As other diseases are brought under control, cancer is set to become the number one killer, and is already in epidemic proportions worldwide.

  Paul Davies

  Epidemics, Numbers, Disease

  "Cancer: The beat of an ancient drum?" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2011.

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• In the frantic search for an elusive 'cure,' few researchers stand back and ask a very basic question: why does cancer exist? What is its place in the grand story of life?

  Paul Davies

  Doe, Stories, Cures

  "Cancer can teach us about our own evolution" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2012.

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• Mystery has great power. In the many years I have worked with people with cancer, I have seen Mystery comfort people when nothing else can comfort them and offer hope when nothing else offers hope. I have seen Mystery heal fear that is otherwise unhealable. For years I have watched people in their confrontation with the unknown recover awe, wonder, joy, and aliveness. They have remembered that life is holy, and they have reminded me as well. In losing our sense of Mystery, we have become a nation of burned-out people. People who wonder do not burn out.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Years, People, Joy

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• Never to have seen anything but the temperate zone is to have lived on the fringe of the world. Between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer live the majority of all the plant species, the vast majority of the insects, most of the strange ... quadrupeds, all of the great and most of the poisonous snakes and large lizards, most of the brilliantly colored sea fishes, and the strangest and most gorgeously plumaged of the birds.

  David Fairchild

  Science, Sea, Snakes

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• I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word 'AIDS' came out until '84. I just remember it being terrifying as more people got sick. We didn't know how you could catch it, you heard all kinds of crazy things.

  Ellen Barkin

  Crazy, Gay, Thinking

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

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Winning, Given, Needed

  "Elizabeth Edwards loses battle with cancer", www.cnn.com. December 8, 2010.

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• America has got the equivalent of stage three cancer of socialism because the federal government is tampering in all kinds of stuff it has no business tampering in.

  Todd Akin

  Government, America, Three

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• I was very surprised when last I bought a packet of cigarettes and had to request a refund as I read a warning that told me 'smoking can cause fatal lung cancer'.

  Robert Clark

  Smoking, Warning, Lasts

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• Conventional cancer therapy is so toxic and dehumanizing that I fear it far more than I fear death from cancer.

  Julian Whitaker

  Toxic, Fear Of Death, Therapy

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• It’s time to close the books on infectious diseases, declare the war against pestilence won, and shift national resources to such chronic problems as cancer and heart disease.

  William H. Stewart

  War, Book, Heart

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• You all know I have terminal cancer—and I have a lot of it. But what you may not know is that stress induces its spread and induces its activity. Stress may even bring it on. Yet stress is the fuel of the activist. This activist loves Oregon more than he loves life. I know I can't have both very long. The trade-offs are all right with me. But if the legacy we helped give Oregon and which made it twinkle from afar—if it goes, then I guess I wouldn't want to live in Oregon anyhow.

  Tom McCall

  Stress, Love Life, Oregon

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• You're looking through the kaleidoscope of God and seeing God's face in so many ways, as friends, as strangers, passersby, country roads, jammed freeways, the cancer ward, the maternity ward - all the faces of God surround you at all times.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, Country, Way

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• I first found out I had cancer on my eye and lost an eye to this disease when I was 16, and I've since had cancer in my kidneys and pancreas and a host of other areas.

  Tom Rath

  Eye, Disease, Kidneys

  "Author Tom Rath On The Health Wake-Up Call He Got At 16 Years Old". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2013.

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