Quotes with scars

  • The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
  • Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

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  • Rabindranath Tagore When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.
    Rabindranath Tagore
    Indian mystic and poet (1861 - 1941)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver A wife is the earth itself, changing hands, bearing scars.
    The Poisonwood Bible
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Claude D. Pepper Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.
    Claude D. Pepper
    American politician of the Democratic Party (1900 - 1989)
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  • Leonard Cohen Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Herbert N. Casson Every winner has scars.
    Herbert N. Casson
    Canadian journalist and author (1869 - 1951)
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  • Elbert Hubbard God will not look you over for medal, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Mignon McLaughlin Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.
    The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • William Shakespeare He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Angela Carter I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Carrie P. Meek Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.
    Carrie P. Meek
    American politician (1926 - )
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  • Brett Hull My teeth have never been touched. Why did I tell you that? Knock on wood. I've got a few scars over the eyes, a couple on the chin, a few on the beak and one across the cheek. But my luck is running out.
    Brett Hull
    Canadian-born American former ice hockey player (1964 - )
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  • Kahlil Gibran Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Cormac McCarthy Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
    Al de mooie paarden (1992) 139
    Cormac McCarthy
    American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter (1933 - 2023)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Douclas MacArthur The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
    Douclas MacArthur
    American general (1880 - 1964)
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  • Robert H. Schuller Turn your scars into stars
    Robert H. Schuller
    American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and au (1926 - 2015)
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  • Bill Buford When I was at Babbo, I was covered in scars and scabs and burned bits - melted hair, ribbed burns I got reaching across the top of a hot skillet... I sliced off the tip of my finger. I cleaved my forehead - a deep, ugly wound. Luckily, it regenerated.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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