Survived Quotes

• I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really.

  

  George Michael
  • Surprised
  • Survived
  • Dysfunction

• It has become accepted doctrine that we must attempt to study the whole man. Actually we cannot study even a whole tree or a whole guinea pig. But it is a whole tree and a whole guinea pig that have survived and evolved, and we must make the attempt.

  

  Gardner Murphy
  • Science
  • Evolution
  • Accepted

• I'm the king of the world, I am the greatest, I'm Muhammed Ali, I shook up the world, I am the greatest, I'm king of the world, I'm pretty, I'm pretty, I'm a baaaad man, you heard me I'm a baaad man, Archie Moore fell in four, Liston wanted me more, so since he's so great, I'm a make him fall in eight, I'm a baaad man, I'm king of the world! I'm 22 years old and ain't gotta mark on my face, I'm pretty, I easily survived six rounds with that ugly bear, because I am the greatest.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • King
  • Wanted
  • Survived

• He has known joy and violence. Felt the warmth of children and the cruelty of abuse. He has nearly died saving lives and merely been killed by a drunken act. He has known the finery of grand estates and the filth of stinking slums. He has survived fire and flood, starvation and torment. And nothing could break his spirit-or his great love. This is HIS life. He is called the horse.

  

  Anna Sewell
  • Life
  • Children
  • Violence

• There is no way that I could have survived if I had not changed my style of play.

  

  Willie Lanier
  • Style
  • Football
  • Changed

• Not all lines, not all images, survive their season.

  

  Andrei Voznesensky
  • Lines
  • Images
  • Survived

• We opened the first Men's Wearhouse in Houston in August 1973, then a store a year for 10 years in Texas. In the early 1980s I opened a store in the San Francisco Bay Area. Within the year, the Texas economy was in total disarray. We were facing Chapter 11, and if not for the California store, we might not have survived.

  

  George Zimmer
  • Economy
  • Store
  • Survived

• One can live without having survived

  

  Carolyn Forche
  • Survived

• I find this less scandalous than beautiful: a kind of palimpsestic plagiarism that moves through bodies and time, a collective song with no single origin, or whose origin has been erased--the way a star, from our earthly perspective, is often survived by its own light.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Song
  • Light
  • Plagiarism

• There is often in people in whom 'the worst' has happened an almost transcendent freedom, for they have faced 'the worst' and survived it.

  

  Carol Lynn Pearson
  • Survival
  • Worst
  • Happened

• Some of us have spent our whole lives committing suicide. And some of us survived.

  

  Anneli Rufus
  • Lives
  • Suicide
  • Survived

• You know, I've had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I've survived it's all because of you.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Life
  • Voice
  • Survived

• I felt guilty because I survived.

  

  Edgar Hilsenrath
  • Guilty
  • Survived

• Well over fifty years ago I was making radio loudspeakers and radio sets in Rochester, New York; pretty young and inexperienced; but we survived the depression.

  

  Stuart Symington
  • Depression
  • Radio
  • Making

• Knowing what Christ knew , knowing all about mankind--ah! who would have thought that the crime is not so much to make others die, but to die oneself--confronted day and night with his innocent crime, it became too difficult to go on. It was better to get it over with, to not defend himself, to die, in order not to be the only one to have survived, and to go elsewhere, where, perhaps, he would be supported.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Christ
  • Crime
  • Supported

• I was the fifth child in a family of six, five boys and one girl. Bless that poor girl. We were very poor; it was the 30s. We survived off of the food and the little work that my father could get working on the roads or whatever the WPA provided. We were always in line to get food. The survival of our family really depended on the survival of the other black families in that community. We had that village aspect about us, that African sense about us. We always shared what we had with each other. We were able to make it because there was really a total family, a village.

  

  Cecil Williams
  • Family
  • Community
  • Poor

• Alex Robichek had survived their Italian exile; that Uncle Richard and Aunt Roszi were safe in Sacramento.

  

  Edith Hahn Beer
  • Italian
  • Safe
  • Survived

• Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived.

  

  William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
  • Science
  • Birth
  • Discovery

• In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.

  

  Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
  • Poetry
  • Poet
  • Survived

• But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of September 11, 2001, our Nation has indeed survived.

  

  Nick Rahall
  • Nation
  • Survived
  • Attacks

• People ask how I’ve survived so long. Well, I was in the Blitz and there was stoicism in adversity. And humour. Humour has sustained me.

  

  Nicholas Parsons
  • Long
  • Humour
  • Survived

• I already survived one apocalypse, I don't need another.

  

  Michael Rooker
  • Survived
  • Apocalypse

• It's a dimissive term to say the Irish team are plucky because it rings back to the old days when we went out and gave it a lash, set our hair on fire and ran after the opposition for 20 minutes and, if they survived that, they beat us by 50 points.

  

  Eddie O'Sullivan
  • Team
  • Fire
  • Opposition

• I think so much of my early life, even though I grew up White and middle class, I was completely shattered by the horrifically violent atmosphere I grew up in. I am a consequence of violence. That opened a door to many realities that I would not have experienced had I not survived what I did.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Violence
  • Grew Up
  • Realities

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