1,237 Quotes About Cancer

  • Author Bobby Hamilton
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    When you write my name, don?t write my name as a cancer victim. I?m not a victim. Victims are what I see on police TV shows when people get shot.

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  • Author Bobby Heenan
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    Everyone should have cancer one time - then you'd know that other things aren't important. The guy that gives you the finger at the stoplight don't mean nothing anymore. You come home and something's cold, or you didn't get something in the mail. Big deal. You want to get up every day and see your family and your friends.

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  • Author Brian Henderson
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    If you are going to exercise, there are other good reasons, ... But protection from breast cancer is not one of them.

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  • Author Catfish Hunter
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    If I had done everything I was supposed to, I'd be leading the league in homers, have the highest batting average, have given $100,000 to the Cancer Fund and be married to Marie Osmond.

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  • Author Christopher Haiman
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    The Multiethnic Cohort offers clues in understanding the racial and ethnic differences in cancer incident rates.

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  • Author Christopher Haiman
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    But when you're talking about smoking, the message doesn't change; it stays the same. Elimination of smoking will reduce lung cancer incidence.

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  • Author Christopher Hitchens
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    My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

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  • Author Christopher Hitchens
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    It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in.

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