Cancer Quotes

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon. (Alan Perlis)
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. View quote
Edward Abbey
Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way that the license works. View quote
Steve Ballmer
Progressivism is the cancer in America and it is eating our Constitution, and it was designed to eat the Constitution, to progress past the Constitution. View quote
Glenn Beck
Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Theres no such thing as ageing gracefully. I dont meet people who want to get Alzheimers disease, or who want to get cancer or arthritis or any of the other things that afflict the elderly. Ageing is bad for you, and we better just actually accept that. View quote
Aubrey de Grey
Breast cancer is being detected at an earlier, more treatable stage these days, largely because women are taking more preventive measures, like self-exams and regular mammograms. And treatment is getting better too. View quote
Elizabeth Hurley
Cancer didn't bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet. View quote
Michael Douglas
In fact, without any exaggeration, the current mechanism of money creation through credit is certainly the "cancer" that's irretrievably eroding market economies of private property. View quote
Maurice Allais
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. (Maya Angelou)
Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them. View quote
Linus Pauling
...those who say I am being punished are saying that god can't think of anything more vengeful than cancer for a heavy smoker. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
If there is a problem, and you don't say anything about it, it's like a cancer and it becomes bigger. View quote
Ruud Gullit
... humanity is a disease, a cancer on the body of the world. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of cancer. I decided nobody should suffer that much. View quote
Gertrude B. Elion
I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage young people from taking up this deadly habit and the resources they provide have helped numerous smokers quit. View quote
Allyson Schwartz
I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - so I like coastal areas and sunny beaches and such - although not the wide-open and deep seas. View quote
Anjelica Huston
Cancer Boy probably has the saddest, noblest, sweetest heart of any character I've ever done. View quote
Bruce McCulloch
I have to admit, like so many women, I always knew there was a chance. But like so many women, I never thought it would be me. I never thought I'd hear those devastating words: 'You have breast cancer.' View quote
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
I was actually very pleased that they let me do it, because I feel very deeply for breast cancer survivors. I don't have it, but it is in my family. I've always been very aware of it. I go for mammograms and checkups. (Erika Slezak)
But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way. View quote
Herbie Mann
When you get cancer, it's like really time to look at what your life was and is, and I decided that everything I've done so far is not as important as what I'm going to do now. View quote
Herbie Mann
In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke. View quote
Ike Skelton
With all of the holiday cheer in the air, it's easy to overlook the ingredients in the foods. Ingredients such as salt, sugar, and fat - all of which leads to diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes, strokes, heart disease, and cancer. View quote
Lee Haney