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Quotes About Recovery

What does justice look like for a survivor? It'll mean different things to different communities.
~ Tarana Burke
In some ways 'Survivor' might have saved my life.
~ Jimmy Johnson
The hope of ISIS was to break the Yazidi community. But for survivors especially, going back to their lives and getting married and making a life and working, it's basically making sure ISIS did not succeed.
~ Nadia Murad
We must remain committed to rebuilding communities ravaged by genocide. Survivors deserve a safe and secure pathway home or safe passage elsewhere.
~ Nadia Murad
I jumped at the chance to be a part of Stroke Recovery Canada. I want to help March of Dimes Canada in its efforts to support stroke recovery and improve the quality of life of all Canadian stroke survivors.
~ Bret Hart
People who live through transplants or disasters like Sept. 11 are survivors.
~ Geraldine Ferraro
We're all painfully aware of how suddenly violence can occur, how crippling it is, and how survivors have to find a way back from that.
~ Paul Dini
I want survivors to know that healing is possible.
~ Tarana Burke
Grozny's been largely rebuilt. But at the same time, I think the war is very much being waged inside its survivors.
~ Anthony Marra
If you really want to see the face of war, see the faces of survivors.
~ Jack Kingston
I first met Susan Sontag in spring 1976 when she was recovering from cancer surgery and needed someone to help type her correspondence. I had been recommended by the editors of 'The New York Review of Books,' where I'd worked as an editorial assistant.
~ Sigrid Nunez
I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won't hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover. I really hope that someone can agree with me on that.
~ Bev Perdue
I was suspended for two years and I got really fat. That was a polite way of putting it.
~ Frank Mir
Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.
~ Sam Graves
I was hurt in 2016, and it made me look at longevity and sustainability. The stuff that I was doing wasn't working for me long term. So, I had to make a change.
~ Gerrit Cole
The first step to prescribing the right medicine is to recognize the cause of the illness. And, when it comes to what is ailing the global economy, extreme monetary easing has been more cause than cure. The sooner we recognize that, the stronger and more sustainable the global economic recovery will be.
~ Raghuram Rajan
From the ashes of a financial crash, there is a chance to create a new economic settlement that is more equal, sustainable and democratic.
~ Frances O'Grady
Security is the absolute precondition for sustainable recovery from conflict; without it, people cannot rebuild their country or return to school or work.
~ Richard N. Haass
And in rural communities we've worked alongside, Haitians are doing far more than merely recovering from the earthquake. Many are creating long-term sustainable change.
~ Craig Kielburger
I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles in my spine.
~ Gwendoline Christie
In the five years since the end of the Great Recession, the economy has made considerable progress in recovering from the largest and most sustained loss of employment in the United States since the Great Depression.
~ Janet Yellen
A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
~ Sam Graves
One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career.
~ Mercedes McCambridge
I've sustained a meniscus injury, shortly after that I sustained an ACL injury so really just going through that and going through some personal issues, personal problems within myself.
~ Terrell Owens