Survived Quotes - Page 24

• Some people have witnessed the killing of their husbands, or they survived other horrific things. My sister is a widow but her husband was killed after the Khmer Rouge. There are different periods in which violence has occurred, and differences in how these women became widowed and how they survived afterwards.

  Chath Piersath

  Husband, Differences, People

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Korean children get a lot of fuss made over them, I guess because life was tough in the old country, and it was a big deal if you survived. There's a big party thrown when you are 100 days old, followed by another when you make it to one whole year.

  Margaret Cho

  Country, Children, Party

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• It's not like we have a formula, but I think one of the reasons this show has survived is that it has a big heart at its center. Other cartoon shows have people crap on each other and make racist jokes. But I don't think people tune in for that. I just don't think a show lasts for 10 years without a heart.

  Trey Parker

  Heart, Thinking, Years

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• As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.

  Lester B. Pearson

  War, Soldier, World

  Lester B. Pearson (1964). “The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements”, McClelland and Stewart

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• He had once found himself in a room with Lady Bessborough's long-haired white cat. He happened to be dressed in an immaculate black coat and trousers, and was there thoroughly alarmed by the cat's stalking round and round and making motions as if it proposed to sit upon him. He waited until he believed himself to be unobserved, then he picked it up, opened a window, and tossed it out. Despite falling three storeys to the ground, the cat survived, but one of its legs was never quite right afterward and it always evinced the greatest dislike of gentlemen in black clothes.

  Susanna Clarke

  Fall, Cat, White

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• I like both Greek and Egyptian. More Greek stories have survived, so we know more about them. They've always been my favorite. On the other hand, I like the Egyptian stories because they're not as commonly known and they have an exotic flavour.

  Rick Riordan

  Hands, Greek, Stories

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• When I was in the NFL, whenever I got cut from a team I would do paintings of the players, they would pay me $4,000 to $5,000 to do their painting of their family, and that's how I survived until another team picked me up.

  Terry Crews

  Team, Cutting, Player

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I can't believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football 'cause half of those eight or nine years I don't even remember.

  Brett Favre

  Football, Believe, Eight

  "Sunday Conversation: Brett Favre". Interview with Suzy Kolber, www.espn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.

  David Drake

  Decision, Worthy, Historian

  David Drake (2009). “Patriots”, p.39, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• If you look at people that have survived crashing in the mountains and lived up in the snow for 40 days - it's possible to do extraordinary feats.

  Sylvester Stallone

  People, Snow, Mountain

  Interview with Chad Williams, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 11, 2010.

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• I think there was always some scrawny dreamer sitting at the edge of the firelight, who had the ability to imagine dangers, to look into the future in his imagination and see possibilities, and therefore survived to pass his genes on to the next generation.

  Christopher Moore

  Thinking, Imagination, Dreamer

  Christopher Moore (2009). “The Lust Lizard Of Melancholy Cove: Book 2: Pine Cove Series”, p.186, Hachette UK

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• I guess that somehow I've survived as a professional guitar player. I've made it 16 years now and I feel like I'm just getting started. Variety is a secret to the success of that.

  Monte Pittman

  Player, Guitar, Years

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say.

  Lou Reed

  Believe, Survival, Stills

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