I have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield.
My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit.
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.
Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.
Tragically, the effort to make America and the world safer and to defend freedom around the world is not without an enormous cost to this Nation in terms primarily of lost lives and those who bear the scars and the wounds of war, and their families who must bear these losses.
Even if severe wounds are given, the Indian has many chances in his favor, for his organization is somewhat different from that of white men, and he recovers easily from wounds that would kill any European outright.
We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them.
But the memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so- called peace treaties.
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
Love hurts, love scars, love wounds, and mars.
America has also forever lost the service of thousands of good soldiers who are now disabled as a result of battle wounds in Iraq. Many others will need mental and emotional rehabilitation before they can return to normal life.
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.