John Prine Quotes

I can blame a lot of things for not writing songs, but cancer isn't one of them.

John Prine

• Cancer
• Songs
• Blame

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
  • Life
  • Question
  • Cancer

• People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Driving
  • Blame

• Every battalion has its marching songs.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Songs
  • Every
  • Marching

• I am fortunate to have the ability to lend my name to build the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in my hometown of Melbourne. It will be a state-of-the-art facility to help heal the whole person - body, mind and spirit.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Mind
  • Help
  • Spirit

• I had a lump on my face and had a big cancer thing removed.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Cancer
  • Face
  • Big

• Many children with cancer in the developing world can be cured. But without appropriate treatment, few survive.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • World
  • Children
  • Cancer

• It's unconscionable that cancer patients get the wrong diagnosis 30 percent of the time and that it takes so long to treat them with appropriate drugs for their cancer.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Time
  • Long
  • Cancer

• I'm a lover of songs.

  

  Vince Clarke Depeche Mode
  • Songs
  • Lover

• We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Songs
  • Lived
  • Pop

• Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Dad
  • Songs
  • Really

• Breast cancer deaths in America have been declining for more than a decade. Much of that success is due to early detection and better treatments for women. I strongly encourage women to get a mammogram.

  

  Larry Craig
  • Women
  • America
  • Success

• I'm happy to tell you that having been through surgery and chemotherapy and radiation, breast cancer is officially behind me. I feel absolutely great and I am raring to go.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Happy
  • Cancer
  • Radiation

• Cancer does give you a new rejuvenation. I know what it's like to be down. I lost a couple of good friends - Larry Hagman and Nick Ashford - who had the same type of cancer that I did, and that makes you think.

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Lost

• If we stop exploring space, we're going to lose the same part of us that found vaccines and penicillin, the part that searches for cures to cancer and AIDS.

  

  Corbin Bernsen
  • Stop
  • Space
  • Cancer

• Cancer will be with me for the rest of my life, be it as a nodule, tumor or cell someplace, or in my fears and anxieties.

  

  Kathryn Joosten
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Cancer

• I have acute myeloid leukemia, an aggressive type of cancer. The typical prognosis is 3-6 months to live, but I would like to stress that is for a patient who is not receiving treatment.

  

  Craig Sager
  • Live
  • Cancer
  • Stress

• My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.

  

  Bob Schieffer
  • People
  • Cancer
  • Smoking

• The way I look at it is, cancer research is absolutely nonpartisan. Cancer is very democratic in the sense that it attacks people regardless of their race, their gender, their national background, or their political persuasions.

  

  David H. Koch
  • People
  • Political
  • Cancer

• I have mothers with small children come to me and say, 'You found that I had early breast cancer - because of you, I don't have cancer.' You've just prevented that person from dying early, and to prevent an early, unnecessary death is incredibly meaningful.

  

  Anne Wojcicki
  • Children
  • Death
  • Small

• This girl at 17 really led an army, this girl at 19 really burned at the stake by her own choice. And you sit there and you want to figure out why did she make these choices? How did she live such a life?

  

  Leelee Sobieski
  • Life
  • Live
  • Why

• After a truly good meal, an outstanding cigar is still the most satisfying after-dinner activity that doesn't involve two human beings.

  

  Brad Shaw
  • Human Beings
  • Meal
  • Cigar

• I can blame a lot of things for not writing songs, but cancer isn't one of them.

  

  John Prine
  • Cancer
  • Songs
  • Blame