Alcoholic Quotes

Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.

I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you've got to. But I try not say that I'm an alcoholic. I prefer to say that it's a disease I've got.

I was an alcoholic, for sure. It became a problem steadily over the course of six years.

She hits me and she beats me and she drinks. My mom is an alcoholic.

I can't convince you to put the drink down if you're an alcoholic, you have to want to do that. I can't convince you to stop eating the cookies when you're a diabetic. You have to do that. And that takes responsibility.

Yeah, I admit to myself, yeah, I'm an alcoholic.

I once had a lot of hatred, mainly toward my father, an alcoholic.

Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.

Today, if you're not an alcoholic, you're nobody.

No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any other single factor to make impossible a total war effort.

It's like our country is being run by a bunch of bad alcoholic dads right now.

What can I say, I'm an alcoholic. It's what I do.

Mr. Speaker, as a grateful recovering alcoholic of 24 years myself, I am living proof that treatment does work and that recovery is real.

In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.

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

The 21st Amendment gives the states the right to decide what the drinking ages should be and other aspects relative to alcoholic beverages, and I support that. As a United States senator, I want to weigh in - this is not my agenda.

My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?

The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown.

Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic's best friend!

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career.

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.

Each year, therefore, a dollar spent on alcoholic beverages has purchased a smaller quantity.

People are saying that I'm an alcoholic, and that's not true, because I only drink when I work, and I'm a workaholic.

Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.

I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.

Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic beverages in wartime means in increased risk, and in loss of efficiency to the fighting and working forces of the country.

As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.

I am a recovering alcoholic.

Anorexia was there for me before I got into modeling, but because of the arena and the demands, the disease really got out of control for me. It's like being an alcoholic and going and being a bartender.