Cancer Quotes

Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth.

Cancer did not bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet.

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.

Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed.

The creator who could put a cancer in a believer's stomach is above being interfered with by prayers.

A laser is a weak source of energy. A laser takes [only] a few watts of energy and focuses them in a coherent stream of light. But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer.

Yes, I have cancer and it might not go away, but I can still have a future because life goes on.

Cancer is my own private war. The strain, the nausea, the fever take turns challenging my strength, my mind and my spirit.

Government is a parasite-a cancer that by nature tries to spread deeper into society. Those who want to run others' lives won't give up and start minding their own business.

This activist loves Oregon more than he loves life.

Cancer is not for sissies.

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.

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

I'm the exact same person I was before (cancer). I'm still shallow, I still love clothes, I still want to talk fashion, I still want to gossip, so lay it on me.

... I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Suddenly I had to spend all my time getting well.

I haven't talked much about being an ovarian cancer survivor because I don't really want to define myself that way.

I tried to tell myself that it could be worse, that the world was not a wish-granting factory, that I was living with cancer not dying of it, that I mustn't let it kill me before it kills me.

There is a growing body of evidence that radiation in excess of what the government says are the minimum amounts we should be exposed to are actually good for you and reduce cases of cancer.

All cancers are alike but they are alike in a unique way.

You beat Cancer by how you live.

There is no conclusive proof that nicotine's addictive... And the same thing with cigarettes causing emphysema, lung cancer, heart disease.

You don't have to find out you're dying to start living.

Cancer doesn’t care if you’re Republican or Democrat.

Chaga is the most powerful cancer-fighting herb known and fights all kinds of radiation damage to healthy tissue.

My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.

No cancer is going to tell me when my time is up.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.

Today the data linking violence in the media to violence in society are superior to those linking cancer and tobacco.

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

I'm going to beat this cancer or die trying.

Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.'

To go to hospitals and see people fight and overcome cystic fibrosis or cancer or any number of illnesses is to see courage that is humbling. And athletes constantly need to be humbled.

You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It's a mindset.

Get up every day, love God, and do your best. He will do the rest!

I questioned her further, and eventually got to talk to her doctor. And her doctor sort of shook his head and he said, I have examined her for throat cancer at least 15 times in the past few years.

I'm battling cancer. It's another battle I intend to win.

People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.

It might be hard to believe, but as difficult as cancer was, in some ways it was good for me.

How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself!

Battling racism and battling heterosexism and battling apartheid share the same urgency inside me as battling cancer.

I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - so I like coastal areas and sunny beaches and such - although not the wide-open and deep seas.

Everyone should know that the 'war on cancer' is largely a fraud.

If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it's always people dying of violence or stray bullets.

Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.

Tai Shimano visited Shunryu Suzuki. "How are you feeling these days?" Suzuki replied, "They have a new name for me: Cancer!"

Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.

It's unconscionable that cancer patients get the wrong diagnosis 30 percent of the time and that it takes so long to treat them with appropriate drugs for their cancer.

Looking to biology to explain the low prevalence of eating disorders among men is like looking to genetics to explain why nonsmokers do not get lung cancer as often as smokers.

It's kind of funny. When I got my diagnosis - cancer - I said to myself, 'Why me?' And then, the other day, when I got the good news, I said the same thing.