How Mom Got Me Through Cancer Quotes & Sayings

The senior officer who met with reporters in Baghdad said there had been 21 car bombings in the capital in May, and 126 in the past 80 days. All last year, he said, there were only about 25 car bombings in Baghdad. — Rich Lowry

Midway through my treatments, I was at the White House to do an interview with President Bush's press secretary, Tony Snow. He had recently revealed he was facing cancer for a second time. While there I was told that the First Lady, Laura Bush, wanted to see me in the private residence for tea. Mrs. Bush has a family history of breast cancer. She personally invited me to accompany her on a portion of an international breast cancer initiative with the Susan G. Komen Foundation, and I couldn't pass up this opportunity. My doctors cleared me to travel - although getting my mom's blessing was far more difficult. Remember, I was in the middle of chemo treatments. I spent time with Mrs. Bush in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, in the UAE and in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. I met some incredible women on the trip. — Robin Roberts

When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast. — Andy Andrews

I believe in God, because he is the only thing that kept me going. He's my best friend. — Jessica Hahn

But what I do I do because I like to do. — Anthony Burgess

Sweetheart, I've been there with you through all of it. I was the one who camped out with you in that old tree house for days on end and held you after your mom died. It was me who sat with you while we waited for your sister to come out of the surgery that cut out her cancer. I was the one holding your hand while we waited for those test results to come back, and I was the one who supplied the alcohol to get you drunk, and the shoulder to cry on while you processed it. I understand. You don't have to do this alone. — Katee Robert

Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer — E. M. Forster

The most any one can do is to confess as candidly as he can the grounds for the faith that is in him, and leave his example to work on others as it may. — William James

The real intolerance in Canadian society is shown by those who would deny people of faith the right to participate in public life. — Stockwell Day

I'm a huge breast cancer awareness advocate because my mom went through breast cancer recently. It really brought our family closer. — Brenda Song

...oppression is as American as apple pie... — Audre Lorde