Adult life Quote by Thomas E Ricks

“He lived a quiet existence where the future was easy to predict and the past was a cancer in remission. It was meaningful, of…

— Adelheid Manefeldt

My dad was a serious alcoholic, and ultimately, that's why he died. When you're a child of someone who struggled with things like that,…

— K. Flay

“These days he smoked and drank largely to solace himself for what drinking and smoking had done to him, so he drank and smoked…

— Martin Amis (Author

“Becoming an ex-alcoholic, however, is not easy. Drink may be futile and ultimately degrading, but only the fortunate drinker discovers this. And it is…

— George Sheehan

“Cancer is tangible. People feel compassion for you if you get cancer. Not so much if you're an alcoholic. And a mother who drinks?…

— Amy Hatvany (Yurk

“I wasn't an alcoholic. I didn't drink every day, didn't often drink to excess or binge. And could leave it alone completely for large…

— Ellen Hopkins

“Otto Warburg had, half a century before, proposed that oxidation was the cause of many cancers.”

— Carl Sagan

“Years of alcohol can do that to a person, make him dead but not departed, make him indelible to those who have had the…

— Monique Truong

“It was my Uncle George who discovered alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.”

— P. G. Wodehouse

“Drinking had become Myra's staple answer to all of life’s problems. Sometimes it felt like alcohol had replaced Stephen as Itzy’s second parent.”

— Vrinda Pendred

“he was surgically removing a malignant tumor that I’d been carrying around for years. A tumor that had been eating away at my insides.…

— Kristen Ashley

“I’m telling you, the ingenuity of alcoholics is something else. If only it could be put to some kind of good use. I mean,…

— Ozzy Osbourne