Alzheimer Quotes - Page 4

• A man goes to the doctor for a check, and the doctor exams him and says I've got bad news, you've got cancer and alzheimers. The man goes Thank god I don't have cancer.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Cancer, Men, Doctors

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• My father, who suffered from hardening of the arteries, was diagnosed as having that tragic thief of the mind, Alzheimer's.

  Robyn Carr

  Father, Alzheimer's, Mind

  robyn carr (1992). “mind tryst”

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• I have recently been told that I am one of the millions of Americans who will be afflicted with Alzheimer's Disease. . .. I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.

  Ronald Reagan

  Sunset, Journey, Alzheimer's

  Letter to the American people, 5 Nov. 1994

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• Researchers and biotech executives foresee the day when the effects of many catastrophic diseases can be reversed. The damaged brains of Alzheimer's disease patients may be restored. Severed spinal cords may be rejoined. Damaged organs may be rebuilt. Stem cells provide hope that this dream will become a reality.

  George Woolf

  Dream, Reality, Alzheimer's

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• Not much shocked me. You know, I worked in a home for Alzheimer's patients and my dad used to be really into murders and stuff, so I saw dead bodies. It desensitised me to a lot of things.

  Ellie Goulding

  Dad, Home, Alzheimer's

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Suffering is always hard to quantify - especially when the pain is caused by as cruel a disease as Alzheimer's. Most illnesses attack the body; Alzheimer's destroys the mind - and in the process, annihilates the very self.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Pain, Alzheimer's, Self

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• I'm always giving myself the Alzheimer's test. My shrink told me to do this. It takes one minute. You name every word that comes to mind that begins with the letter F.

  Ray Romano

  Alzheimer's, Names, Giving

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• Do you know what Irish Alzheimer's is? It's when you forget everything but your grudges.

  Dana Gould

  Alzheimer's, Forget Everything, Grudge

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• The thing about Alzheimer's is that it's... it's sort of like all these little, small deaths along the way, before they actually physically die.

  Lucinda Williams

  Alzheimer's, Littles, Way

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Before you can kill a demon, you have to be able to say it's name. Names have power. While the word Alzheimer's terrorizes us, it has power over us. When we are prepared to discuss it aloud, we might have power over it. It's thought of as a mental illness and it is a physical illness, affecting the brain. There should be no shame in having it, yet people still don't talk about it

  Terry Pratchett

  Alzheimer's, Names, People

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• If I had been Terry Pratchett the farmer, or Terry Pratchett the dentist, nobody would have paid any attention if I had announced I had Alzheimer's. But there is something fascinating about an author losing the power over words.

  Terry Pratchett

  Alzheimer's, Attention, Losing

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• We are living in the United States of Alzheimer's. A whole country has lost its memory. When it can't remember yesterday, a country forgets what it once wanted to be.

  Studs Terkel

  Country, Memories, Alzheimer's

  "What I've Learned: Studs Terkel" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 6, 2008.

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• You're young forever when you write. Alfred Hitchcock directed until the day he died. As long as you don't have any dementia or Alzheimer's, if you have your All-Bran every day and clear yourself out, I think your brains are gonna be all right.

  Mel Brooks

  Writing, Thinking, Alzheimer's

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• There are so many wonders awaiting us. If we can upload memories, then we might be able to combat Alzheimers, as well as create a brain-net of memories and emotions to replace the internet, which would revolutionize entertainment, the economy, and our way of life. Maybe even to help us live forever, and send consciousness into outer space.

  Michio Kaku

  Memories, Space, Forever

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

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• I [...] vowed that rather than let Alzheimer's take me, I would take it. I would live my life as ever to the full and die, ­before the disease mounted its last ­attack, in my own home, in a chair on the lawn, with a brandy in my hand to wash down whatever modern ­version of the "Brompton cocktail" some ­helpful medic could supply. And with ­Thomas Tallis on my iPod, I would shake hands with Death.

  Terry Pratchett

  Life, Home, Ipods

  "Terry Pratchett: my case for a euthanasia tribunal". www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2010.

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• Like Joe Biden and so many other Americans, I've lost people I love deeply to cancer. I've heard often from those whose loved ones are suffering from Alzheimer's, addiction, and other debilitating diseases. Their heartbreak is real, and so we have a responsibility to respond with real solutions.

  Barack Obama

  Real, Cancer, Responsibility

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• There are so many places, particularly right now. Go and volunteer at a food bank. If you play the piano, go play the piano in an Alzheimer's home. Or read in an Alzheimer's home. Help a military family with babysitting. The opportunities are endless. People often think 'They want me?' or 'I can be of help?' What we try to say here is 'Be who you are.'Feel that, live it and pass it on.

  Maria Shriver

  Military, Home, Opportunity

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• My father never feared death. He never saw it as an ending. I don't know why Alzheimer's was allowed to steal so much of my father before releasing him into the arms of death. But I know that at his last moment, when he opened his eyes - - eyes that had not opened for many, many days - - and looked at my mother, he showed us that neither disease nor death can conquer love.

  Patti Davis

  Mother, Father, Eye

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• I have a particular passion and focus on Alzheimer's and diseases of dementia. There's just so much scientifically that we don't know, and we can know.

  Miles D. White

  Passion, Alzheimer's, Focus

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• Amnesiac was written to make fun of senior citizens with alzheimers. I hate them and I wish they'd die.

  Thom Yorke

  Senior, Fun, Hate

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• Before my mother's diagnosis with Alzheimer's, I had heard of the disease, but hadn't known anyone who had suffered from it.

  Kevin Whately

  Mother, Alzheimer's, Disease

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• You can't converse with Alzheimer's sufferers in the way you do with others; the dialogue tends to go round in circles.

  Kevin Whately

  Alzheimer's, Circles, Way

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• The simplest way to look at all these associations, between obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, cancer, and Alzheimer's (not to mention the other the conditions that also associate with obesity and diabetes, such as gout, asthma, and fatty liver disease), is that what makes us fat - the quality and quantity of carbohydrates we consume - also makes us sick.

  Gary Taubes

  Cancer, Heart, Alzheimer's

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• Alzheimer's ... it is a barren disease, as empty and lifeless as a desert. It is a thief of hearts and souls and memories.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Memories, Heart, Alzheimer's

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• Promise me that if I ever get Alzheimer’s or dementia, and I don’t remember anyone that you’ll visit me every day and read to me like Noah read to Allie.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Alzheimer's, Promise, Remember

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