Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Gaffigan

Cancer is always funny.

Jesse Jackson

If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.

Jeff Foxworthy

Kids aren't suppose to have cancer, they're suppose to have a future.

James Agee

And a human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued from the disadvantage of other human beings, and who prefers that this should remain as it is, is a human being by definition only, having much more in common with the bedbug, the tapeworm, the cancer, and the scavengers of the deep sea.

Jack Wild

Until I was diagnosed with mouth cancer, I'd never heard of it.

Christopher Hitchens

If you've led a rather bohemian and rackety life, as I have, it's precisely the cancer that you'd expect to get. That's a bit of a yawn.

Christopher Hitchens

I'd like to prove to other people that it's not the end of everything to be diagnosed with cancer.

Christopher Hitchens

I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process.

Christopher Hitchens

When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early.

Christopher Hitchens

It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in.

Christopher Hitchens

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

Christopher Hitchens

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

George Carman

Cancer is a disease where the patient can contribute a great deal of help himself if he or she can retain their morale and their hopes.

Christopher Hitchens

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

Christina Applegate

Sometimes, you know, I cry. And sometimes I scream. And I get really angry. And I get really upset, you know, into wallowing in self-pity sometimes. And I think that it's all part of the healing.

Christina Applegate

I was just shaking and then also immediately, I had to go into 'take-care-of-business-mode' which included a change to a more healthy diet.

Christina Applegate

I am a 36-year-old person with breast cancer, and not many people know that that happens to women my age or women in their 20s. This is my opportunity now to go out and fight as hard as I can for early detection.

Gilbert Gottfried

A man goes to the doctor for a check, and the doctor exams him and says I've got bad news, you've got cancer and alzheimers. The man goes Thank god I don't have cancer.

Fran Drescher

I had uterine cancer, which is the most under-funded and under-researched of all the female cancers.

Fran Drescher

My whole life has been about changing negatives into positives. I got famous, then I got cancer, and now I live to talk about it. Sometimes the best gifts come in the ugliest packages.

George McGovern

This total failure to address the diet/cancer relationship is most disturbing to ...those...informed...

George McGovern

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

Jello Biafra

I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind of cancer when you're 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations can't be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest.

Jeanne Tripplehorn

Finally, after a lot of searching and digging, it was simply the love of family that gave me a road into the character. Once I got into that, and we delved into what it would be like to survive cancer and the ability to see how precious life is, it became easier to play her.

Chris Van Hollen

Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.

Chris Kilham

Mistletoe, the same plant you kiss under at holiday time, may be an effective aid against certain types of cancer.

Chris Hayes

Having an energy conversation without talking about climate is like talking about smoking and not talking about cancer.

George Carlin

We are all precancerous.

George Carlin

You show me something that doesn't cause cancer, and I'll show you something that isn't on the market yet.

George Carlin

Cancer research is a growth industry.

George Carlin

If you live long enough, sooner or later everybody you know has cancer.

George Carlin

The surgeon general warned today that saliva causes stomach cancer. But apparently only when swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time.

George Carlin

It's not in the mainstream media yet, but the biggest jump in skin cancer has occurred since the advent of sunscreens. That kind of thing makes me happy. The fact that people, in pursuit of a superficial look of health, give themselves a fatal disease. I love it when 'reasoning' human beings think they have figured out how to beat something and it comes right back and kicks them in the nuts. God bless the law of unintended consequences. And the irony is impressive: Healthy people, trying to look healthier, make themselves sick. Good!