Hospitals Quotes - Page 26

• A week in the hospital she had told us. A hysterectomy, she had said. It had seemed unremarkable to me in a woman of forty-six long finished with childbearing, although every day that I grow older I realize there is never anything unremarkable about losing any part of what makes you female - a breast, a womb, a child, a man.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Men, Long

  Anna Quindlen (2003). “Object Lessons: One True Thing ; Black and Blue”

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• I didn't care for most of the books I was being asked to read in school. I started reading like crazy right after high school when I got a job in a mental hospital. I was working my way through college, and I did a lot of night shifts, and there was nothing to do. So I read like crazy, serious stuff, all the classics.

  James Patterson

  Jobs, Crazy, Book

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• Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said, 'So, what did you think?

  Steven Wright

  Life, Baby, Destiny

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• I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home.

  Candice Bergen

  Home, Tears, Chloe

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• Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.

  Alan Watts

  Sick, Interesting, Way

  Alan Watts (2017). “Alan Watts - In the Academy: Essays and Lectures”, p.360, SUNY Press

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• The medical clown connects with patients in a way that is markedly different from the rest of their experience in the hospital.

  Jeff Raz

  Different, Way, Medical

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• wouldn't you like to make sure all those millions you give to Uncle Sam went to schools and hospitals instead of nuclear warheads?' As a matter of fact, he would. Playgrounds for big kids, preschool programs to little ones, and mandatory LASIK surgery for NFL refs.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Sports, Uncles, School

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• A Hospital isn't any place to end up being sick.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Sick, Being Sick, Ends

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• Temples are like spiritual hospitals, and the sinful, who are spiritually diseased, have the first right to be ministered to by them.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Firsts, Temples

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “None High: None Low”

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• The questions they ask usually in the polls is: do you support the President's attempt to overthrow the government of Saddam Hussein? ... If you ask a question like: do you support the dropping of powerful explosives upon the heads of totally innocent men, women and children, demolishing their homes and their schools and their hospitals, are you in favour of that? That would change the answers, I think, quite a bit.

  William Blum

  Children, Powerful, Home

  "Peace activist comments on media coverage of the war". Interview with John HIghfield, www.abc.net.au. March 24, 2003.

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• A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my son and some first impressions of fatherhood. He responded, simply, 'Everything is possible again.' It was the perfect thing to write, because that was exactly how it felt. We could retell our stories and make them better, more representative or aspirational. Or we could choose to tell different stories. The world itself had another chance.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Home, Writing, Son

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, March 4, 2010.

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• 8.45 a.m. My mother is in the hospital grounds smoking a cigarette. She is looking old and haggard. All the debauchery is catching up with her.

  Sue Townsend

  Mother, Smoking, Debauchery

  Sue Townsend (1991). “Adrian Mole, from Minor to Major: The Mole Diaries : the First Ten Years”

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• Remember when you fell out of that tree on the farm when you were ten, and broke your arm? Remember how he made them let him ride with you in the ambulance on the way to the hospital? He kicked and yelled till they gave in.” “You laughed,” said Clary, remembering, “and my mom hit you in the shoulder.” “It was hard not to laugh. Determination like that in a 10-year-old is something to see. He was like a pit bull.” “If pit bulls wore glasses and were allergic to ragweed.” -Luke and Clary talking about Simon, pg.211-

  Cassandra Clare

  Mom, Determination, Glasses

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.657, Simon and Schuster

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• Look, why don't you go talk to Ron about all this?" Harry asked. "Well, I would, but he's always asleep when I go and see him!" said Lavender fretfully. "Is he?" said Harry, surprised, for he had found Ron perfectly alert every time he had been up to the hospital wing.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wings, Lavender, Looks

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• He says you don't often find angels in places like happy homes and rich people's backyard parties. He says that angels flock to places like hospitals and homelss shelters and jails, because those people realize they need help. And do they are able to believe in strange phenomena. Funny how the world is backward. The really comfortable people don't always see much supernaturally, and to the ones who have to struggle, it's, like, breathing in their faces. The first are last... and the last are first.

  Carol Plum-Ucci

  Party, Believe, Struggle

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• I couldn't help but think, This car is taking me to a mental hospital and my mother is treating it like open-mic night at a Greenwich Village café.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Mother, Night, Thinking

  Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.132, St. Martin's Press

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• I hate America. I hate this country. It’s just big ideas, and stories, and people dying, and people like you. The white cracker who wrote the national anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word 'free' to a note so high nobody can reach it. That was deliberate. Nothing on earth sounds less like freedom to me. You come to room 1013 over at the hospital, I'll show you America. Terminal, crazy and mean. I live in America, that’s hard enough, I don’t have to love it. You do that. Everybody’s got to love something.

  Tony Kushner

  Country, Hate, Crazy

  "Angels in America". Book by Tony Kushner, May, 1991.

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• My god! people say. You have so much self-control! And later: My god. You're so, so sick. When people say this, they turn their heads, you've won your little game. You have proven your thesis that no-body-loves-me-every-body-hates-me, guess-I'll-just-eat-worms. You get to sink back into your hospital bed, shrieking with righteous indignation. See? you get to say. I knew you'd give up on me. I knew you'd leave.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Suicide, Giving Up, Hate

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• I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident. I hit a bookmark.

  Steven Wright

  Reading, Speed, Bookmarks

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• I once lay in a white hospital for the dying and the dying self, where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die, where on my knees I prayed for LIGHT, I prayed for l*i*g*h*t, and praying crawled like a blind slug into the web where threads of wind stuck against my mind and I died of pity for Man, for myself, on a cross without nails, watching in fear as the pig belches in his sty, farts, blinks and eats.

  Charles Bukowski

  Rain, Men, Wind

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• I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn't recognize myself.

  Amy Winehouse

  Saws, Pictures Of Myself

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• As the situation developed, the futility of attempting suicide in the middle of a hospital became apparent.

  Steig Larsson

  Suicide, Middle, Attempting

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• If I had a large amount of money I should certainly found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that they can be severely offended by words and phrases and yet remain all unoffended by the injustice, violence and oppression that howls daily about our ears.

  Stephen Fry

  Phrases, Ears, World

  "Loose Ends", BBC Radio 4, 1987.

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• Granted: I AM an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there's a peep-hole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me.

  Gunter Grass

  Eye, Sight, Blue

  The Tin Drum bk. 1, ch. 1 (1959)

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• He never spoke of that night again, not to your mother, not to anyone else. He was ashamed for her, for Mickey, for himself. In the hospital, he stopped speaking altogether. Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge. His thoughts still haunted him.' ~pg 139

  Mitch Albom

  Mother, Night, Silence

  Mitch Albom (2009). “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”, p.85, Hachette UK

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