Bruised Quotations

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.

I've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego.

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.

My baby was bruised from his neck to his forehead. He had two pieces of meat taken out of his face; this man left my baby there to die.

One thing I'm not going to do is walk away from this team in their present bruised and battered state and give it to some young lad and say, 'Here, you take them out there,'

My ego's bruised but I've climbed too many hills for this to be the end,

Lee said in the dressing room that it was the worst tackle ever and I wouldn't argue with that. It was horrific. He has a badly bruised knee and could be out for a few weeks.

She's banged up and bruised a bit. Fortunately, she didn't have anything more serious than that.

There are still people issues, and some power issues, and the industry is bruised and battered like everybody, ... But it's getting better every hour, and every day.

I have a bruised shoulder, I have some lacerations on my head and I have two impact fractures on my spine.

He's a bit sore, battered and bruised but he has no broken bones. He was taken to hospital but was allowed home last night. He's having a couple of days off and hopefully he'll be back for the weekend. We'll just have to wait and see.

Here God gives his people some taste, that they may not faint; and he gives them but a taste, that they may long to be at home, that they may keep humble, that they may sit loose from things below, that they may not break and despise bruised reeds, a

He was not hurt seriously, but was bruised and banged up pretty good.

He's had an MRI, a CT scan, and he did have an X-ray after the game. He has a bruised chest, and we just have to see how it works out in the next day or two.

He has a bruised chest, and we just have to see how it works out in the next day or two.

He was treated for bruised ribs on the upper left side of his chest. I got overconfident on a fresh set of tires. The tires weren't warm enough and I slipped.

We're pretty bruised up right now. It was a pretty physical game.

Spring is a spiritually renewing time, particularly after Katrina bruised our spirit.

Paula hit a rock when out training and developed a bruised foot and it is taking a long time to settle down. In particular it has been causing problems on the track, constantly flaring up and she cannot do proper flat out training sessions. It reared up again at the end of January and we feel it would be stupid, too much of an unnecessary risk, to compete in Melbourne.

Paula hit a rock when out training in January and developed a bruised foot and it is taking a long time to settle down.

(Kelly) was productive early but has not been as productive late. He has a severe bruised thumb and has been struggling with that.

It comforts me to know he didn't suffer and he wasn't bruised or crushed. I didn't need a note. I think I needed to visualize and see him.

We were jumping around on the field. The next day I thought I had some bruised ribs, that I caught an elbow or something. But I never would've imagined it would have been this.

Unfortunately, the SARS effect is concentrated on Asia -- long the fastest-growing region in the world and the one area that essentially had been keeping the global economy afloat. To the extent that this source of global resilience is now being undermined by disease-related panic, an already bruised and battered global economy has little left to lean on.

Most cheerleaders have knee problems. I had just gotten back from the doctor about two weeks before this happened with a bruised meniscus and tendonitis in my patella. A lot of the girls on the squad have irregular cartilage and torn ligaments.

Understandably, Mrs Catesby was very shocked and upset by the experience and thankfully only sustained minor injuries - a bruised hip and elbow from when she fell backwards in the assault.

The creation of a senate is in no way a move to improve legislative oversight. It has simply been created as an extension of presidential patronage, aimed at soothing bruised egos in the ruling party.

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

We played against a very physical team last night, and in a loss like that you try to find positive things. Now our team knows what it's like to be banged and bruised - and still lose by just four points.

... how poorly do we love even those whom we love most! We are not only bruised by the limitations of their love for us, but also by the limitations of our own love for them.

We knew it was going to be a war. This was our most physical game by a long shot and we're pretty bruised up. But we played solid defense all night and made them take difficult shots. That was the biggest key.

...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.

Bill was a safe pair of hands, but when it came to dealing with a dynamic market and a bruised company, I think there is just a little bit of lost momentum. He is doing the right thing by stepping down. A lot of lesser men might not have been willing to step down.

Craig bruised his tailbone. It's pretty painful and stiff right now. He could be (out).

I've broken my wrist, dislocated toes and shoulders, gotten stitches, you name it. However, the worst was a severely bruised femur. I got body checked into an open gate while playing hockey. The doctor couldn't believe I didn't shatter my femur.

I've only been catching the past two weeks. It's difficult. I never saw myself as a catcher before. I'm all bruised up from foul tips, but it's fun. It gives you a different perspective on the game.

Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and bruised itself. We have been enjoined by the courts, assaulted by thugs, charged by the militia, traduced by the press, frowned upon in public opinion, and deceived by politicians. 'But notwithstanding all this and all these, labor is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission is as certain of ultimate realization as is the setting of the sun.

Florian badly bruised his left knee in a French championship match with his Toulouse club on Saturday. He had a scan today and doctors decided that he should be exempted from training until Wednesday. We'll see then if he has recovered.

I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, when his wing is bruised and his bosom sore; when he beats his bars and he would be free, it is not a carol of joy or glee, but a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core.

I'm being optimistic. I think he just bruised it when he landed. Wednesday is a ways away. I think he'll be ready to go.

I'm not sure, ... If you got something that's bruised or tight it affects you a lot more.

I'm getting all bruised up, but it's for a good cause.

It's not broken ? it's just bruised in a nasty spot ? but I'm not sure whether he will join us in the morning.

A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.

It's bruised and a matter of it calming down. We are not going to put him out there in a situation where he could be injured.

I have to warn you that it does take a little time for those who have been bruised emotionally to recover.

But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

I probably bruised him ... myself. I didn't think we played very smart on offense.

Gerry has a pretty badly bruised thigh, but I think the rest will be good and he'll be able to come back next week.

Gerry's got a pretty badly bruised thigh, but I think this rest will be good and he'll be able to come back next week.

It was a pretty rough go right off the bat. Some guys out early with separated shoulders and bruised ribs, a couple of bleeding lips and cuts over the eye. Good, old playoff hockey. The team that wanted it a little more in the end I think got the win.

After Sept. 11, they got bruised here in San Francisco. They had all their eggs in this basket.

The doctors advised me six weeks rest after I bruised my ankle during the test series but I played in pain for four games.

The doctor said it was like a train wreck. He didn't break anything, but he was bruised all over.

Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.

A dream dirty and bruised is better than no dream at all.

And on a scale of 1 to 10, they're a 10. Just being in Cleveland for one year, having faced them twice, my body was sore and bruised after every game I faced them.

I wanted to be kicked and hit and bruised up and beaten. It became something that was an absolutely necessary part of every day for me.

This particular movie there's more at stake then just money. Of course, there's the money to our economy, there?s the jobs, but there?s also a sense of civic pride and also a bit of a bruised ego and a black eye if we can't land the ?Dallas? movie in Dallas.

It's a bruised ligament. It doesn't look too serious but he can't play on Tuesday.

It's a bit bruised and tender but I'll be 100 per cent for Saturday,

It was a tough game for Megan. She actually went down in the fourth quarter and bruised her knee cap. We had some smaller players bumping her when she was in the air. They were a team that played pretty hard.

It's frustrating. It takes ego to get to the NFL. And your ego gets bruised a little bit when someone is taking your spot.

He's not riding today and he isn't riding tomorrow either. He's just very sore and bruised and didn't feel up to race-riding today. We will see how he is for Monday.

Often our self-esteem is bruised by criticism.

She was singed, bleeding, bruised, and furiously alive.

Somebody called me a 'bruised romantic' once, and I like that.

A wretched soul bruised with adversity,We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;But were we burdened with like weight of pain,As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.

But words are words; I never yet did hearThat the bruised heart was pierced through the ear.

The least strength suffices to break what is bruised.