Quotes of the Week - May 20, 2008:
"I wish for the recovery of my daughter Kerstin, the love of my children,
the protection of my family and for people with heart and compassion."
-- Elisabeth Fritzl, the Austrian woman kept as sex slave by her father
for 24 years thanks people for their support in a handwritten message
on notice board in square of her home town.
"No foreigners allowed." -- Burmese police officer stops aid
workers from entering cyclone-stricken communities in Irrawaddy Delta.
"My wife wouldn't let me retire. She kicks me out of the door at
7am every morning. She's quite a formidable person." -- Sir Alex
Ferguson after his team Manchester United won Premier League title.
"I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal."
-- US President George Bush explains why he quite the game in 2003.
Topic: Cancer Quotes, Quotes about
Cancer, Cancer Quotations, Sayings
The moment my doctor told me, I went silent.
My mum and dad were with me. Then we all fell to pieces. Kylie Minogue On being diagnosed with breast cancer
I feel more inspired than ever, and think that I will finally
achieve what I have long been wishing for: a balance of work
and privacy - a harmony. Kylie Minogue On getting through battle against cancer
It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways,
extremely positive. Marianne Faithful On her successful recovery from breast
cancer
My mum [who has breast cancer] is a fighter. I've got that
from her, I know she's a fighter. Naomi Campbell
Breast cancer deaths in America have been declining for more
than a decade. Much of that success is due to early detection
and better treatments for women. I strongly encourage women
to get a mammogram. Larry Craig
My cancer scare changed my life. I'm grateful for every new,
healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life. Olivia Newton John
If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages,
then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about
it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options,
medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell. Lance Armstrong
Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer
and survive is a victory for me. Ingrid Bergman
Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn
to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have
left. Ingrid Bergman
Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease
is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it
is felt to be obscene -- in the original meaning of that word:
ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses. Susan Sontag
Cancer is a word, not a sentence. John Diamond
During chemo, you're more tired than you've ever been. It's
like a cloud passing over the sun, and suddenly you're out.
You don't know how you'll answer the door when your groceries
are delivered. But you also find that you're stronger than
you've ever been. You're clear. Your mortality is at optimal
distance, not up so close that it obscures everything else,
but close enough to give you depth perception. Previously,
it has taken you weeks, months, or years to discover the meaning
of an experience. Now it's instantaneous. Melissa Bank
We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its
incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent,
not cancer. Gilbert Adair "Under the Sign of Cancer,"
Myths and Memories, 1986
One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by
the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself,
by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own
power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps. Georg Groddeck The Book of the It, 1923
Once you choose hope, anything's possible. Christopher Reeve
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. John Cheever In The Letters of John Cheever, 1989, concerning
his cancer and its treatment
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