Quotes of: Breast-cancer Keyword

And this was to save rats, right? Or mice? You spent all this money to save mice the problem of developing tumors?

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor.

The Fault in Our Stars

My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They’re made of me as surely as my brain and my heart are made of me. It is a civil war with a predetermined winner

The Fault in Our Stars

The failure to think positively can weigh on a cancer patient like a second disease.

Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind of frightening and decaying quality was very interesting to me, and it seemed that one could explore the idea...

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Cancer cells are fixed at an age where they are still too young to have learned the rules of the society in which they live. As with so many immature individuals of all living kinds, everything they do is excessive and uncoordinated with the needs or...

Sherwin B. Nuland

I love Monet: his 'Water Lilies' would look great on my wall. But would I prefer to see money helping kids get better from cancer rather than spending it on a work of art for my own personal indulgence? Yes, I probably would.

Bonnie Langford

Just as a father hates cancer, because of what it does to his child, so God hates divorce, because of what it does to His children.

AHA: The God Moment That Changes Everything

I hope he died of intestinal cancer in a part of the world where morphine is as of yet undiscovered.

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons

When you organize extraordinary missions, you attract people of extraordinary talent who might not have been inspired by or attracted to the goal of saving the world from cancer or hunger or pestilence.

Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

Heaven is freakin' not ready for me!" - seven-time cancer survivor Dionne Warner in Never Leave Your Wingman

Never Leave Your Wingman: Dionne and Graham Warner's Story of Hope

‎I'm in a win-win playoff. " Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of miraculous healing.

Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well

Debería ser rico para tener una secretaria a la que dictar, mientras camino, porque las mejores ideas se me ocurren siempre cuando estoy lejos de la máquina.

Trópico de Cancer

Chuck Norris’s tears cure cancer. Too bad he’s never cried.

The Truth About Chuck Norris: 400 Facts About the World's Greatest Human

...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.

Ten Little Indians

Before I started chemotherapy treatments, I wrote down the best advice from doctors, family, friends, books, and survivors and created an 'Owner's Manual' to help me take care of myself. It would remind me that cancer is doable.

Regina Brett

Each appointment brought fear, uncertainty and discouragement. Ann’s constant concern was, What if I have cancer?

Honest Wrestling: Questions of Faith When Attacked by Life

I am fortunate to have the ability to lend my name to build the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in my hometown of Melbourne. It will be a state-of-the-art facility to help heal the whole person - body, mind and spirit.

Olivia Newton-John

In 2001, my father finally succumbed to the bone cancer that had tortured him for seven years. His last weeks were a terrible, black icing on the cake, the agony, the slow twisting, thinning and snapping of his skeleton. Everything fell apart.

Peter Baynham

My father had spent years fighting cancer of the head and neck. He had numerous operations, and he was reduced and reduced and reduced. By the end, he had a growth so big under his eye that it hurt to look at him.

Rachel Joyce

There's a phrase in Shakespeare: he refers to it as the 'hidden imposthume', and this idea of a hidden swelling is seminal to cancer. But even in more contemporary writing it's called 'the big C'.

Siddhartha Mukherjee