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Bruised Quotes
Getting knocked, and getting back up.
These bruised quotes range from a literal stagecoach jolt to the sting of feeling unwelcome at a prestigious school. What ties them together is a kind of stubborn recovery, the sense that bruising is rarely the end of the story. See related lines in Pain quotes.
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- Playing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had problems with my throat over the years, playing with loud bands for years, and I've had bruised vocal chords and nodules.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always getting injuries like bruised and bloody knuckles from catching a cymbal or the edge of a drum.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's always a part of my brain saying: 'Stop getting comfortable. Don't relax.' Because I find it difficult to write when I'm happy. I have to go out there and get battered up and bruised to write anything. I have to feel something.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our job... as we take forward this mantle of leadership as a new generation is to ensure that we not only bring our party back together, which has been bruised and battered this week, but that... we bring the parliament back together.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.
- Realize
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I was gone.
- Horse
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a snowboarding accident. I fell off a horse. I've had a concussion, a fractured rib... I walk into walls. I'm always bruised up.
- Action Film
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I speak to a victim or their family, people who were left bruised and battered by someone, and can give them some small relief, I know I'm winning in some small way, and I'm part of a process that sometimes works.
- Cartoon
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Smurfs - and they're this way in Peyo's comics as well - do have a rubbery indestructibility about them. They can get bruised & battered. But they then just sort of bounce back very quickly, like those classic cartoon characters Wiley Coyote and Tom & Jerry.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
During National Playground Safety Week, I'll celebrate common-sense safety. I'll also celebrate skinned knees and bruised elbows. I'll celebrate so-called 'dangerous' playgrounds - playgrounds with see-saws, zip lines and towering slides.
- Fans
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- Nov 07, 2020