Cancer Battle Sayings

#1. During my cancer battle, "the more I lose of myself externally, the more I gain internally".

C.A.Nichols

#2. I am joining the more than 200,000 women who will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year. We are a testament to the importance of early detection and new treatments ... I am inspired by the brave women who have faced this battle before me and grateful for the support of family and friends.

Sheryl Crow

#3. Everyone needs to be proactive and know the various warning signs of cancer. Early detection and research to make detection easier at earlier stages, along with the treatments needs, is still a must. I salute all those winning the battle.

Dennis Franz

#4. I will not be defined by the marks left on me by the world, but by the mark I leave on the world (referring to the facial scars he still carries from his successful 1991 battle against cancer, which caused him to be turned down for a customer service job because he was "too ugly").

James Houston Turner

#5. Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However, everyone will at least know what you stood for - YOU.

Shannon L. Alder

#6. Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death.

Martha Ostenso

#7. Her (India's) great curse is caste; but English education has already proved a tremendous power in levelling the injurious distinctions of caste.

Keshub Chandra Sen

#8. We could have lost faith and just let this battle with cancer get the best of us, or I could give my daughter's battle with cancer a purpose, and use my platform to try to raise as much awareness as possible.

Devon Still

#9. I realize you think I'm just a filthy manwhore, but it does actually matter to me.

Christina Lauren

#10. The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.

George Soros

#11. I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.

Damien Hirst

#12. Cancer has been unfortunately in my life. My mom's best friend is kicking ass in her battle with breast cancer. Both of my grandmas had cancer. I recently lost a friend to cancer.

Marla Sokoloff

#13. All has changed, thanks to Joe Eszterhas' life-threatening battle with throat cancer. He announced in "The New York Times" that he and Hollywood had blood on their hands and now Eszterhas is crusading to stop Hollywood's glamorization of smoking.

Joe Eszterhas

#14. In God's strength I could battle the giants. Alone, I was just a grasshopper.S

Shirley Corder

#15. India is using troops in Kashmir. They are losing the battle of heart and minds. It's like treating cancer with dispirin.

Imran Khan

#16. The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories - or you can use it to paint dreams.

Robert Breault

#17. 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.

Norm MacDonald

#18. In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.'

Abraham Verghese

#19. Swinging the spatula, he smacks Leo in the head, the loud thwack echoing though the kitchen. "Shit!" Leo winces, "What the hell was that for?"
"The table isn't set," Lorenzo says. "What are we, animals?"?

J.M. Darhower

#20. He never tired of watching her breathe. Every night spent beside her was an honour.

Colin Cotterill

#21. I suppose I didn't cry in all the cancer crap stuff because I felt I couldn't lose the battle, and part of the battle was holding myself together.

Sam Taylor-Wood

#22. I'm battling cancer. It's another battle I intend to win.

Arlen Specter

#23. But consider whether you may not get more help from the customary method[1] than from that which is now commonly called a "breviary," though in the good old days, when real Latin was spoken, it was called a "summary."[2]

Seneca.

#24. I entreat fresh visions from the painters. Be lavish with your vermilion to portray the mountains in the spring.

Lu Xun

#25. The politicized sponsors of this pseudoscientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in the "war" against cancer, and other terrible maladies, too, then join the battle against their lethal stupidity.

Christopher Hitchens

#26. When I was going through my chemotherapy, I realized not many people are willing to talk about cancer, even after getting fully cured. Celebrities and educated people are also very protective and private about it. I still haven't understood why. I decided to fight my battle out in the public.

Yuvraj Singh

#27. What should we do about it?" asks Miss Celia.
We. God forgive me, but I wish there wasn't a "we" mixed up in this. (Minny)

Kathryn Stockett

#28. Beating cancer is personal battle. It was one of the toughest opponents I have faced so far, and I think I did reasonably well. Touch wood.

Yuvraj Singh

#29. life was extraordinary. She fought her battle against breast cancer for five years but refused to stop living. She married the love of her life and they enjoyed every moment they had together. When she died, she was robbed not only because she was so young,

D.M. Hamblin

#30. People are forever finding something wrong with you.

Brigitte Bardot

#31. We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness. Augustus Waters did not die after a lengthy battle with cancer. He died after a lengthy battle with human consciousness, a victim - as you will be - of the universe's need to make and unmake all that is possible.

John Green

#32. We're not opposed to Catholics having pride in their church, but that doesn't mean that every church that doesn't join them isn't a church.

Pope Shenouda III

#33. Fairfield," she said in cutting tones, 'if you had been a hunter on the plains of old, the lions would have killed you while you were wandering around the savannah saying, 'Where is everyone, and what have they done with my spears?

Courtney Milan

#34. Being politicians, they all got to sharing their personal stories. Obama talked about his mother's battle with cancer. Harry Reid talked about a kid with a cleft palate. And John McCain told how he once carried a brain dead woman through an entire campaign.

Bill Maher

#35. I think cancer is a hard battle to fight alone or with another person at your side, but I will say having someone to pick you up when you fall, stand by your side through every appointment and delivery of bad news, is priceless.

Jenna Morasca