Curtis Sliwa Quotes

I've got cut half in two, once, and blowed up a time or two, but nothing permanent.

Injuries make you stronger.

I've been beaten, I've been bruised, I was left for dead as well.

Everyone gets hurt, but I've probably had the most injuries.

I was shot from the funny gun.

I know that I'm very lucky to be alive. For 35 or 40 years I've spilt my blood and broke my bones and spent years in hospitals.

Before the old wound can be healed, there is fresh blood flowing.

I was on Saipan when I got hit. Not too bad, but bad enough to hamper me if I stayed. I was hit in my left buttocks just below the belt line.

Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.

I survived a terrorist attack and got stabbed another four times, literally stabbed in the heart, and somehow, I'm going to be 100 percent OK.

I broke my back, I broke my ankle. I didn't cry then.

You're sitting at home in a cast or a boot and it's tough, because all you've got is negative thoughts going through your head. Once you start to move and run a little bit, the confidence comes back, and then it's just a matter of time before you come back to be yourself.

When you are injured you have to keep a positive mindset and keep moving forward.

A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

All of us heal in time. The strongest are born again. We only keep the scars we choose to keep.

Scars are the paler pain of survival received unwillingly and displayed in the language of injury.

...A scar signifies past pain, a wound that did not heal as it ought. But it testifies, too, to survival...(Here be Dragons)

A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

An injury is not just a process of recovery it's a process of discovery.

A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.

Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.

I've had, you know, my leg chopped off.

Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it's the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears.

This is a physical thing that is fixable. I know, I'm a survivor. Believe me, there was no way I thought I could survive. There are answers out there that need to be found.