Wounded Quotes

We are immodest before the barbarians, who are more chaste than we. Even more, the barbarians are wounded at our lack of modesty; the Goths do not permit debauchees of their own nation to remain among them; alone in the midst of them, by the sad privilege of their nationality and their name, the Romans have the right to be impure. The oppressed fly to the barbarians to seek for mercy and a shelter.

On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two.

To march over dead men, to hear without concern the groans of the wounded, I say few men can stand such scenes unless steeled by habit or fortified by military pride.

You had to be tough to survive being in the hospital during the Civil War.

As an improvement in our military establishment, it will deserve the consideration of Congress whether a corps of invalids might not be so organized and employed as at once to aid in the support of meritorious individuals excluded by age or infirmities from the existing establishment, and to procure to the public the benefit of their stationary services and of their exemplary discipline.

The ground was strewn with the dead, the dying, and the wounded—here lay one man with his leg shot off, there another with a wound in his head, another with an arm shot off, and hundreds wounded in nearly all the various parts of the body.

Every day these blessed [Dutch] women came to the ships in great numbers—mothers, daughters, and even little girls—bringing with them for our wounded all the numberless little comforts of Dutch homes, a tribute that came from the hearts of the people.

Tell me some true things about fighting.''Tell me you love me.''I love you,' the girl said. 'You can publish it in the Gazzettino if you like. I love your hard, flat body and your strange eyes that frighten me when they become wicked. I love your hand and all your other wounded places.

Nothin wounded goes uphill, he said. It just dont happen.

I wasn't a hero. I just got shot.

Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)

You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear.

You're not weak at all. Wounded, but that's nothing to be ashamed of.

A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.

Christ's mercy is the mighty healer; even to the wounded innocent.

I'm basically drawn to defeated, injured, hurt, barely walking characters.

Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.

Her hair is smoldering. Her face was smudged with soot. She had a cut on her arms, her dress was torn, and she was missing a boot. Beautiful.

Love is not love that wounded bleeds And bleeding sullies slow. Come death within my hands and I Unto my love will go.

General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the action when he fell, mortally wounded, at the head of his advance.

By the time we complete the care for the wounded soldiers, $6 trillion, that's $50,000 per American household.

Only those who do not fight are never wounded.

I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.

Vice President Spiro Agnew can not cheat on his score : because all you have to do is look back down the fairway and count the wounded.