June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Children who grow up getting nutrition from plant foods rather than meats have a tremendous health advantage. They are less likely to… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
“When your physician says, “you have two to four months to live” because their medicine isn’t working I hope you take a… — David Langmas Copy Share Image
I call my mom from the car. I tell her that Neutral Milk Hotel is playing at the Hideout and she says,… — John Green Copy Share Image
I think that we all stand on the dartboard of life. Roughly 30,000 people a year are going to catch a dart… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
“The secret to battling cancer, then, is to find means to prevent these mutations from occurring in susceptible cells, or to find… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Only you know what you're trying to accomplish. Any time you're thinking about whether someone's going to like this or not like… — James Ransone Copy Share Image
She was bedridden falling a fall which broke her hip. X-rays showed that she had cancer of the colon which had already… — Adeline Yen Mah Copy Share Image
“Imagine a population of trillions of individuals living under one roof in a state of perpetual happiness. Such a community exists -… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
“The absence of cancer in mummies from Egypt and South America86 led one study to propose: ‘In industrialised societies, cancer is second… — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
“Seriously, I don’t like people messing with old ladies. Mi madre had cancer and gave all her Social Security money to a… — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
Cancer is the ugliest, scariest, most dreaded word in the English language. My credentials for saying so? Head-to-head, firsthand close encounters with… — Jack Ramsay Copy Share Image
You've got two veins; one carries blood directly to the body, one carries blood to the heart. That tumor was growing and… — James Conner Copy Share Image
See beauty in those unexpected places. (she asked herself how people could let Bach be background noise.) See the opportunity in what… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
“When my mom was first diagnosed with cancer, I learned the word "malignant" and heard the word "spread" and knew the word… — Matt Blackstone Copy Share Image
I was gonna open a gym and was in negotiation to buy the gym I was working out at. It was a… — Drew Waters Copy Share Image
When my wife was six years old, her father was diagnosed with stage four colon cancer and was given a 10% chance… — Chris Pronger Copy Share Image
“I cannot defeat cancer. Nobody defeats cancer. There is no winning or losing. There is no surviving or not surviving. There are… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“We Let the Boat Drift I set out for the pond, crossing the ravine where seedling pines start up like sparks between… — Jane Kenyon Copy Share Image
In the laboratory, we call this the six-degrees-of-separation-from-cancer rule: you can ask any biological question, no matter how seemingly distant-what makes the… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
You can't just say there is a God because well, the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
With just a little love and a little caring, I have seen kids totally turn around. Where you can't find any cancer… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
“In perhaps the most revealing of all the health-related studies, a group of subjects who had contracted malignant melanoma received traditional treatment… — Kerry Patterson Copy Share Image
I would never call myself a cancer survivor because I think it devalues those who do not survive. There's this whole mythology… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“Our deeply-rooted beliefs about the wholesomeness of milk and dairy products should be re-considered under careful, scientific evaluation. Given the tumor promotor… — Bodo Melnik Copy Share Image
As a woman in sport media, you have to be smart. You use what you can to your advantage and make sure… — Michelle Beadle Copy Share Image
“It seems as though if I cured cancer and won a Nobel Prize someone would say, “Sure, cancer sucks and I’m glad… — Gabourey Sidibe Copy Share Image
When we breathe it in, soot can interfere with our lungs and increase the risk of asthma attacks, lung cancer and even… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Overconsumption is a "cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals." It cuts the heart right out of our compassion. It distances us… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
And I had this sense, even though I couldn't quite wrap my head around what it meant to have a cancer diagnosis… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
Being diagnosed with cancer helped me identify all that was wrong in my life. It also helped me search for the solutions.… — Manisha Koirala Copy Share Image
Clean water is a necessity that we can no longer take for granted. Each year more people die of water related diseases… — Jewel Copy Share Image
The unwillingness to accept anything short of victory, that underlying fury, is the fundamental building block of my bottomless motivation to succeed.… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these… — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image
Of course the more you love the sinner the more you hate and make war on the sin, just as the more… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“It lives desperately, inventively, fiercely, territorially, cannily, and defensively--at times, as if teaching us how to survive. To confront cancer is to… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“I thought we were in a church basement, but we are literally in the heart of Jesus.” “Someone should tell Jesus,” I… — John Green Copy Share Image
I had just finished playing a doctor in Doctors' and I had had to tell somebody that they had cancer. In that… — Christopher Timothy Copy Share Image
I'll never go so far to call cancer a gift. It's a really terrible disease. It's taken the lives of so many… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
