Survivor Quotes

• The human spirit can be indomitable and it is this rare quality that is not at all to be expected that makes survivors of us all, the human race in the grand scheme of things.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • Quality
  • Spirit
  • Survivor

• As you know, in the past several years, month after month, radio has increased its revenues - some of it even coming from Dot-Com advertisers. So, radio is a survivor.

  

  Casey Kasem
  • Past
  • Radio
  • Months

• You're looking, sir, at a very dull survivor of a very gaudy life. Crippled, paralyzed in both legs. Very little I can eat, and my sleep is so near waking that it's hardly worth the name. I seem to exist largely on heat, like a newborn spider.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Life
  • Sleep
  • Spider

• I'm a survivor, at least that's what everyone tells me.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Survivor

• Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.'

  

  Michael N. Castle
  • Chance
  • Cancer
  • Armstrong

• There are no heroes on the battlefield, my lady; there are only survivors.

  

  Elizabeth Hoyt
  • Hero
  • Survivor
  • Battlefields

• So I'm not crazy after all! I thought it looked good myself once I cut it all off. Not one guy likes it, though. They all tell me I look like a first grader or a concentration camp survivor. What's this thing that guys have for girls with long hair? Fascists, the whole bunch of them! Why do guys all think girls with long hair are the classiest, the sweetest, the most feminine? I mean, I myself know at least two hundred and fifty unclassy girls with long hair. Really.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Girls
  • Concentration
  • Fascists

• If you're passionate, be passionate enough to fail. Fail small, accept responsibility, repeat. The people who make change are the survivors of serial failure.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • Responsibility
  • Enough

• Christina Baker Kline writes exquisitely about two unlikely friends—one, a 91-year-old survivor of the grinding poverty of rural Ireland, immigrant New York and the hardscrabble Midwest; and the other, a casualty of a string of foster homes—each struggling to transcend a past of isolation and hardship. Orphan Train will hold you in its grip as their fascinating tales unfold.

  

  Cathy Marie Buchanan
  • Writing
  • Home
  • Past

• I'm one of the handful of survivors of the guys I came up with.

  

  Richard Masur
  • Survivor
  • Handful

• Being an immigrant and staring life over, you learn to be a survivor and how to face your challenges and basically overcome them. And that has been a great skill set that I've developed and has helped me in my career.

  

  Anousheh Ansari
  • Career
  • Survivor
  • Immigrant

• ...being a survivor meant that you lived to some degree in a chronic state of mourning, like a low-level fever that waxes and wanes but is never truly eliminated.

  

  Bradford Morrow
  • Fever
  • Mourning
  • Eliminated

• I guess I'm a survivor. There are many of us survivors and any successful woman of my age has somewhat of that in her.

  

  Helen Gurley Brown
  • Age
  • Successful
  • Survivor

• You'll beat this. I know it doesn't feel like it, but you will. You're a survivor." "I don't want to survive it." "I know that, too," Nell had said. "And it's fair enough. But sometimes we don't have a choice.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Enough
  • Fair
  • Survivor

• When the moon shall have faded out from the sky, and the sun shall shine at noonday a dull cherry red, and the seas shall be frozen over, and the icecap shall have crept downward to the equator from either pole . . . when all the cities shall have long been dead and crumbled into dust, and all life shall be on the last verge of extinction on this globe; then, on a bit of lichen, growing on the bald rocks beside the eternal snows of Panama, shall be seated a tiny insect, preening its antennae in the glow of the worn-out sun, the sole survivor of animal life on this our earth - a melancholy bug.

  

  William Jacob Holland
  • Growing
  • Animal
  • Eternity

• The Mormons even baptized Anne Frank. It took Ernest Michel, then chairman of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, three years to get Mormons to agree to stop proxy-baptizing Holocaust victims.

  

  Maureen Dowd
  • Religion
  • Victim
  • Holocaust

• There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Victory
  • Survivor
  • Massacres

• I do like reality TV. I've always liked Survivor since season 1.

  

  Heather Doerksen
  • Survivor
  • Reality TV

• It's very hard to understand when you're not out there but voting somebody off on Survivor almost feels like you're killing them.

  

  Aras Baskauskas
  • Understand
  • Voting
  • Survivor

• I love Elizabeth Taylor. I'm inspired by her bravery. She has been through so much and she is a survivor. That lady has been through a lot and she's walked out of it on two feet. I identify with her very strongly because of our experiences as child stars. When we first started talking on the phone, she told me she felt as if she had known me for years. I felt the same way.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Bravery
  • Survivor
  • Elizabeth Taylor

• I think the typical way is that usually Holocaust survivors are known to be very quiet and full of anxiety, many of them don't like life, don't trust people. But my parents were children during the Holocaust. And my father was very optimistic.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Children
  • Father
  • Parent

• I am a cancer survivor…. Cancer is like enlightenment at gunpoint. One must face it and do something.

  

  Anna Halprin
  • Cancer
  • Enlightenment
  • Survivor

• I've seen a lot in my life. My dad was pretty gnarly but I loved him and I wouldn't change it for the world. My mom's a survivor.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • World
  • Dad
  • Survivor

• I have absolutely no objection to growing older. I am a stroke survivor so I am extremely grateful to be ageing - I have nothing but gratitude for the passing years. I am ageing - lucky, lucky me!

  

  Sharon Stone
  • Gratitude
  • Lucky
  • Grateful

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