Breast Cancer Survivor Teams
The Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival is proud to offer a breast cancer survivor team category into the race weekend, and holds an annual flower ceremony on the water. This has become an integral part of the festival and a reason why many breast cancer survivor teams have chosen to travel to Ottawa to participate in the Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival. Many accompanying family and friends also make the trip to show their support and honour survivors.
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Famous quotes containing the words breast, cancer, survivor and/or teams:
“Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger;
that, that is freedom—that it is which makes
the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glow
Aye, that is freedom,—that is pleasure—life!”
—Marie Lovell (1803–1877)
“The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx, and Balanchine ballets don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“You’re looking, sir, at a very dull survivor of a very gaudy life. Crippled, paralyzed in both legs. Very little I can eat, and my sleep is so near waking that it’s hardly worth the name. I seem to exist largely on heat, like a newborn spider.”
—William Faulkner (1897–1962)
“A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not “studying a profession,” for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)