Bearing witness Quote by Mary Gauthier

I understand that kids look up to me, that some people might have gotten sober because of me.

— Gerard Way

“Not long after that I was walking along the beach, I dropped to my knees, I began crying because I realized that I'd gotten…

— Steven Tyler

I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.

— Janice Dickinson

When I was writing 'Southeastern,' I'd just recently gotten sober. For me, that was a major turning point in my life. It changed things…

— Jason Isbell

I couldn't have gotten sober without rehab because I needed the science.

— Rob Lowe

“Be grateful. These feelings, no matter how painful, are part of living. Today, we are alive—not anesthetized, not sedated, not passed out. Take control…

— Ann D. Clark

I've just completed a five-year period that can perhaps best be called a breathing spell. A time of getting my health back and gathering…

— George Carlin

Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three,…

— Gary Oldman

Everybody in recovery smokes. If you don't like smoking, don't even bother trying to get sober. Just stay drunk.

— Augusten Burroughs

When I finally got sober, I moved towards what I might have been if I hadn't been destroying myself when I was young.

— Mary Gauthier

When I first got sober, I hadn't read anything for six or seven years. I didn't have even that much focus.

— Mary Gauthier

Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people…

— Jodi Picoult

Let me close by bearing witness (and my nine decades on this earth fully qualify me to say this) that the older I get,…

— L. Tom Perry

Photography is a weapon against what's wrong out there. It's bearing witness to the truth.

— Brent Stirton

“As his ears rang and his heart broke for her, he stayed strong against the gale force she let loose. After all, there was…

— J.R. Ward