Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathy Freston

An abundance of peer-reviewed science is showing that a whole foods, plant-based diet prevents most heart attacks, strokes, and even many kinds of cancer. It gets you to your ideal weight easily and sustainably, reverses Type 2 diabetes, and even fixes erectile dysfunction (because it greatly improves circulation!).

Kathy Bates

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

Kathy Bates

Now if I go through it again, I think I would be a lot more open about it. I admire people who have been open like Melissa Ethridge and women I see walking around facing it without wigs and all of that stuff. I think I would be more courageous next time.

Julia Sweeney

It was a fine cancer experience, as cancer experiences go.

Kris Carr

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

Kris Carr

Cancer' is such a frightening word.

Kris Carr

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

Kris Carr

Cancer is very chaotic.

Kris Carr

While I may never be in remission from cancer, I am currently in remission from an unhealthy relationship to food.

Kris Carr

I knew when I was diagnosed with cancer the only thing I could control was what I ate, what I drank and what I would think.

Kris Carr

Cancer has changed, and so have I. Life goes on, even becomes normal again. I refused to let cancer wreck my party. There are just too many cool things to do and plan and live for.

Kris Carr

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

Kevin R. Stone

Cancer may kill you, but when you look at the numbers, arthritis ruins more lives.

Ken Venturi

I began seeing my wife, Kathleen, while I was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer.

Kathy Griffin

I have friends who are going through chemotherapy, and they make the darkest, most hideous cancer jokes you've ever heard.

Kay Redfield Jamison

If people can talk about having breast cancer, why can't people who have mental illness talk about mental illness? Until we're able to do that, we're not going to be treated with the same kind of respect for our diseases as other people.

Kay Redfield Jamison

I think that one of the many advantages of death accruing over a long period of time is that you do have time to meet a lot of other people who are going through similar situations and one of the great delights of our life actually was sitting around in labs waiting for the results of tests and talking to other people who were waiting to find out whether their cancer numbers were going in the right direction or not.

Michael E. Mann

Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers movement, I have discovered, and I don't mean only those who reject the idea of global warming but those who insist that smoking doesn't cause cancer or that industrial pollution isn't linked to acid rain.

Michael Douglas

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

Michael Landon

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

Sherri Shepherd

I am a type-2 diabetic, and they took me off medication simply because I ate right and exercised. Diabetes is not like a cancer, where you go in for chemo and radiation. You can change a lot through a basic changing of habits.

Sherman Alexie

...And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you are. You're just an old fart dying of terminal nostalgia.

Scott Thompson

When I found out I had cancer, I just said one thing: 'I want to hold on to life' and that changed everything for me.

Scott Thompson

My cancer continues to make for all kind of hilarity.

Tom DeLonge

Like millions of others, I have been plagued by the devastating effects of cancer hitting not one, but multiple members of my family.

Sofia Vergara

When they tell you that you have cancer, you panic.

Michael Milken

So many of my family and friends had lost their battles against cancer. What could I do that my relatives and friends had not? What could I do that would be different?

Michael Milken

Dedicated researchers seek better treatments and cures for diabetes, kidney disease, Alzheimer's and every form of cancer. But these scientists face an array of disincentives. We can do better.

Norm MacDonald

When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that's a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.

Neil Diamond

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

Neil Gaiman

In ten years time I’ll be… (dead) sixty.

John Simon

Activating oxygen can produce compounds called radicals that put oxidative stress on cells. Such stress could ultimately lead to cancer and other diseases.

Sheryl Crow

Being diagnosed with cancer really opened my eyes to the fact anyone can have it and that even though we think we have control over everything in our lives, we don't.