Quotes About Recovery

While my speech is getting better every day, throughout my recovery, I have been able to sing to some extent.

In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us step out of a recession; it gave a certain amount of speed to the economy. But that was the first step.

If we stop dragging trawls and dredges through it, the life of the seas would recover with astonishing speed. Because most marine animals are highly mobile during at least one stage of their development, the rewilding of the seas needs little help from humans.

It's hard to criticise Ronaldo. When we come back from an away game at 4 A.M., he is one of the players that goes straight to the training complex to jump in cold water to accelerate the speed of his recovery. He is an example to follow.

During my childhood, I had a long, dangerous spell of illness, and my health has always been delicate.

My role in 'Love Sonia' gripped me to the extent that I started despising the male touch. I would stand under the shower for long spells. It just didn't feel nice.

Obviously I've had some injuries and it's kept me out of the team for quite a long time and it's always difficult to have long spells on the sidelines and then try to get back into the team.

I would rather spend one day on Maui than 30 days in the hospital.

After I lost my legs, all I wanted to do was snowboard again. I remember spending an entire year on the computer, looking for 'adaptive snowboarders' or 'snowboard legs' or 'adaptive snowboard schools' or just something that I could connect to. I already knew how to snowboard - I just needed to find the right legs.

If anybody says their facelift doesn't hurt, they're lying. It was like I'd spent the night with an axe murderer.

I've spent more time in hospitals than some fellows ever spend in church.

I could easily have spent one half of my life in a psychiatric hospital, and the other half in the Priory.

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was devastating to Louisiana's economy, environment, and way of life, but because of the resiliency of our people, we were determined to come back stronger than ever.

The BP oil spill nearly crippled our state and did damage to our coast and communities that will take years to rectify.

I know that I'm very lucky to be alive. For 35 or 40 years I've spilt my blood and broke my bones and spent years in hospitals.

The U.S. invaded the wrong country, destroying an odious government that was not responsible for 9/11. I don't know how you recover from invading the wrong country, no matter how you spin it.

When you have a spinal or brain injury, or any kind of devastating illness, you kind of fall through the cracks in a sense. Your world implodes, and no one is really there to help pick up the pieces.

I don't think I have too many filmmaking years left since I hurt my spine and knee.

I had four compression fractures in my spine. They were repaired, but it cost me two inches of height.

When I was 12, I had an operation at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, and they corrected the curving in my spine. I've got two 12-inch rods and eight screws going up my back keeping me straight, and they fuse together with my spine, so now I can't really live without them.

I broke five vertebrae, and they had to rod my spine because I broke my sternum, too.

I've got two discs at the bottom of the back that are quite badly damaged, that obviously happened over a period of time, and there's inflammation on one of the vertebrae as well, which has come from the angle of my pelvis and spine.

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

Let's stop this American downward spiral.