Katherine Ryan Quotes

My goal is to be living back in Canada as soon as I can, hopefully somewhere in the Gulf Islands.

Does anyone who leaves a Baltic country ever want to return to it? Someone must, I suppose.

I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.

I have no intention of going back to France, except for yearly visits to meet my family.

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

So people ought to be free to leave here, but there ought to be opportunity for them to come home.

Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?

You don't have free will when you have lung cancer.

I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.

My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

I love England but everything that has happened makes me realise that I would be better off in the States.

Man becomes weak or ill by accident as a consequence of the lack of resources. Even the most severally ill patients must be treated with the aim of restoring their health.

The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present distress…

'Incurable' is a tough word. So is 'terminal.'

One of the things that concerns me is that so few people who go and get an education elsewhere... feel any real... pull for returning home.

I am 17 years old and a senior in high school. I am also, like thousands of other people living on this planet, sick.

I certainly don't miss Italy, as I am happy in Canada and have no intention of returning.

Health care, whether I like it or not, is at the foundation of my public service.

I would be happy to go back to Spain at the right moment.

I was born in Birmingham, and then I moved to Rotterdam when I was about five/six and then came back when I was 14.

I was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in Canada. I left when I was three. My parents went to Miami, and that's where I grew up.

Reality is I'm sick all the time.

I could go back to Argentina to live, but not to play.

When I was a little boy in Tijuana, it was wonderland. We left when I was probably four - I was dying of tuberculosis.

The thing is, Finland is such a small country. It only has a population of five million, which is half of London. There's nothing there. I just had to get out. The U.K. is the perfect place to come.