Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Walker

I believe deeply in a common humanity. The black man belongs to the family of man. One part of that family is out of control - like a virus or cancer - and that is the white man. He and his technological society are bent on destroying the world. Everywhere the white man has gone with his empire, he has destroyed people, races, societies, cultures, and in the course of it, has sterilized himself. He is completely the mechanical man: without heart, without soul. He is the Tin Man of The Wizard of Oz. But I don't believe that all the white people in the world are no good.

Larry Hagman

It's my firm intention to whop cancer into submission and I truly believe I've given myself the best start possible by radically overhauling my diet and by staying true to my motto, which is: Don't worry, be happy, feel good. The first thing I did when I was diagnosed was to turn vegan.

These are cancer victims and survivors who are close to me.

And like a cancer, corruption and mismanagement are destroying delivery, spreading to every level of government.

The Chief Justice battled thyroid cancer since being diagnosed last October and continued to perform his duties on the court until a precipitous decline in his health the last couple of days.

The French have a saying, 'Certainly you need money to live, but not to love,' and I agree. Money means nothing to me, but my friends whom I've met through cancer mean everything.

These polyps can take between two and five years to develop into cancer. This gives us a window of opportunity, when they can be removed and prevented from developing any further.

Robert Morgan

All, however, is not bleak, ... For many years it was thought that early-stage ovarian cancer did not give symptoms. Several papers published in the past four to five years, however, have shown that 90 percent of women with early-stage ovarian cancer do have symptoms.

Eric Lander

We now know 600 different genes involved in cancer - giving rise to new drug targets.

Christopher Buckley

The danger in that is that you find yourself promoting cancer.

Norman Schwarzkopf

I am living proof that if you catch prostate cancer early, it can be reduced to a temporary inconvenience, and you can go back to a normal life.

Norman Mailer

So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer.

Norman Mailer

Cancer is the growth of madness denied.

Norman Mailer

Madness is locked beneath. It goes into tissues, is swallowed by the cells. The cells go mad. Cancer is their flag. Cancer is thegrowth of madness denied.

Ornette Coleman

All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body - like radiation, cancer, and all.

Oriana Fallaci

I don't even know if I will be around next year. My cancers are so bad that I think I've arrived at the end of the road. What a pity. I would like to live not only because I love life so much, but because I'd like to see the result of the trial. I do think I will be found guilty.

Olympia Snowe

Most breast cancer-related deaths can be prevented through simple and painless preventive measures. A late diagnosis can result in more serious, long-term consequences.

Oliver Stone

We all have idealism. We think we're healthy and then, all of a sudden, one day, you have cancer. The truth has a mind of its own.

Octavia Butler

You are hierarchical. That's the older and more entrenched characteristic. We saw it in your closest animal relatives and in your most distant ones. It's a terrestrial characteristic. When human intelligence served it instead of guiding it, when human intelligence did not even acknowledge it as a problem, but took pride in it or did not notice it at all... That was like ignoring cancer.

Emile M. Cioran

Trees are massacred, houses go up — faces, faces everywhere. Man is spreading. Man is the cancer of the earth.

Ellen Goodman

The same people who tell us that smoking doesn't cause cancer are now telling us that advertising cigarettes doesn't cause smoking.

We relay for the hope that cancer patients in treatment will be supported, the hope that those lost will never be forgotten, and the hope that someday cancer will be eliminated.

We sent the film hoping they would consider it for a side showing. This tells the world this is not just an important medical issue - kids facing cancer - but it's a good film.

We still don't understand it to the degree we do any other cancer.

This says individuals might be genetically predisposed to more than one type of cancer. That tells us that there is a common pathway for these cancers.

Karen White

Each of us can relate, through family and friends. Every one of us knows someone with breast cancer.

David Brenner

These particles can damage the cells in the lining of our lungs and produce lung cancer.

These things are growing like a cancer on our city.

The negative consequences of cancer are substantial and unappreciated.

It's no doubt an important factor in causing the high rates of skin cancer we have here.

Jorge Cantu

It's unbelievable. It's like a cancer. We've got to find a way to stop it.

Amy Hoggart

Dad's cancer experience included periods of relatively good health as well as bouts of hospitalisation as he coursed his way through a variety of different chemotherapy treatments.

It's still important to eat a high-fiber diet. Even though our study didn't find a reduction for colorectal cancer, other studies show that high-fiber diets reduce the risk of heart disease and diabetes.