Top 200 Recovering Quotes & Sayings

Bush's presidency is revisionism-proof. We're going to be recovering from it for the rest of our lives.

Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get.

I'm a recovering alcoholic so I should be home.

I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.

I'm like a recovering perfectionist. For me it's one day at a time.

It's not that hard to imagine the natural world recovering it's health in our absence: it's more difficult, and more necessary, to imagine it recovering its health in our presence.

What we are doing in fact is recovering and progressing and sustaining the recovery of our democracy.

Ruin and recovering are both from within.

Donald J. Trump has the good fortune of taking office as the economy is finally recovering from the 2008 crisis.

Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health.

I've been unfortunate enough to be working, and recovering from a few injuries now and again.

I am a recovering alcoholic.

We have lost certainty and predictability in the regulatory and tax climate in America, and this is why we're recovering so slowly.

I used to be an angry man myself. I’m a recovering assaholic so I could recognize that in Steve. (quoting Jean-Louis Gassée)

I always call myself a recovering narcissist. I lived my life thinking everything was about me.

I'm a recovering undercover over-lover.

The importance of recovering the customs and the institutions of the past thus inaugurating the archaeological approach to art.

Nobody is quite so blase and sophisticated as a boy of nineteen who is just recovering from a baby grand passion

People who have had a stroke and are recovering from it love being read to... especially by someone who is a good reader - it does help them to get better.

I am a recovering rat racer.

I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible.

Perhaps the future of the world would be in better hands if we forgot about discovering something new and concentrated on recovering our past.

I'm a recovering optimist.

I do a lot of work with the Red Cross, too. As a reporter, before I went to entertainment news, I tended to follow natural disasters. I went to Charleston, South Carolina, after Hurricane Hugo. I went to Miami the year after they were recovering from Hurricane Andrew. I came to California when they were recovering from a big earthquake. I've seen the Red Cross and how they stay there years after a natural disaster. They're not just there when a disaster is happening.

I'm a recovering politician.

To its committed members (the Democratic Party) was still the party of heart, humanity, and justice, but to those removed a few paces it looked like Captain Hook’s crew–ambulance-chasing lawyers, rapacious public policy grants persons, civil rights gamesmen, ditzy-brained movie stars, fat-assed civil servant desk squatters, recovering alcoholics, recovering wife-beaters, recovering child-buggers, and so forth and so on, a grotesque line-up of ill-mannered self-pitying, caterwauling freeloaders banging their tin cups on the pavement demanding handouts.

Recovering in a Calcutta, India hospital. I think I'm more difficult than critical.

I see myself as a recovering journalist.

The getting lost and recovering - that is the meditation.

In recovering from our creative blocks, it is necessary to go gently and slowly... These are baby steps. Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

I was ill in '98. By the end of '99 I was recording and recovering.

During the season, I dodge the media. After practice, I need to be taking care of my body and recovering.

I'm recovering from a cold. I'm so full of penicillin that, if I sneeze, I'll cure someone.

Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.

For me, what works is keeping training short but with high intensity and then recovering well. Physio, massage, icing, things like that.

I'm an alcoholic, recovering. And I used to smoke cigarettes, and I was a philanderer and I, wouldn't call myself good.

I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering.

I was in middle school when Hurricane Hugo hit in 1989. I still remember the sounds from that night and the challenges of recovering.

Dave Rath is recovering. A month ago he had hip pocket replacement surgery.

Writing is fantasizing about what your film will be like. Shooting is reality. And the post-production is recovering the idea you had.

In international football you have 10 games a season, with players from different clubs. There's no time for proper coaching; they're just recovering from playing on the Saturday.

I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.

Accept the things I cannot change," I said. "And pray for the courage to change the things I can, as well as the wisdom to know the difference." The thing is... I know this is good advice. It's called the Serenity Prayer, and it really does put things in perspective (it's suppose to be for recovering alcoholics, but it helps recovering freakoutaholics, like me, as well).

Sleep is all about recovering. So if you're not sleeping, you're not recovering. And if you're going to break your body down a lot, you better find ways to build it back up. And the only way to do that is get a lot of sleep. So for me, I go to bed at like 8:30, 9:00. As soon as I put my kids to bed. Because I'm up at 5:30 the next day.

Recovering from suffering is not like recovering from a disease. Many people don’t come out healed; they come out different. They crash through the logic of individual utility and behave paradoxically. Instead of recoiling from the sorts of loving commitments that almost always involve suffering, they throw themselves more deeply into them. Even while experiencing the worst and most lacerating consequences, some people double down on vulnerability. They hurl themselves deeper and gratefully into their art, loved ones and commitments.

Mistakes are a risk but recovering from them shows a lot of personality.

One has to be very careful after recovering from COVID, especially during season change when fever, cold and cough are common.

Since SpaceX's very beginnings, they have talked about recovering and reusing at least the first stages of their rockets.

I'm a recovering journalist, I should say.

The point of the journey is not just healing. It's also recovering the truest, most spontaneous, joyful, and creative core of ourselves.

Recovering from a gunshot wound is not a vacation. You need to, like, write that on your hand or something.

I spent six months really healing and recovering and working on myself.

We spend our whole lives recovering from high school.

I'm a recovering drug addict, so it's not a subject that I take lightly, but I do agree that the criminalization of narcotics is the deliberate inhibition of human consciousness.

Back in the day, I was the first non-recovering doctor working in recovery. People would say, 'You can't do that! We need recovering guys in this.' But usually recovering doctors have a lot of baggage and so there's a certain amount of liability with a recovering doctor. But of course it can be ideal.

I like to think I'm a recovering historian.

I hope and pray that mother nature is leaving us alone to get on with the job of cleaning up and recovering from this event.

I think from day one, recovering, it is just try to be as positive as you can.

After recovering from COVID-19, I had to be again admitted to a nursing home as I was suffering from gastroenteritis and UTI.