Survivor Quotes - Page 14

• i am like a survivor of the flood walking through the streets drenched with God surprised that all of the drowned victims are still walking and talking

  Saul Williams

  Talking, Victim, Flood

  Saul Williams (2009). “, said the shotgun to the head.”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Imagine a survivor of a failed civilization with only a tattered book on aromatherapy for guidance in arresting a cholera epidemic. Yet, such a book would more likely be found amid the debris than a comprehensible medical text.

  James Lovelock

  Book, Science, Epidemics

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• You work with stand-up comedians or you work with somebody in theater, you work with somebody from Star Search or Survivor or a kid, it constantly changes how you play with people.

  Steve Zahn

  Stars, Kids, Play

  Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. May 6, 2003.

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• Many survivors refuse to talk about what they went through but I've never been ashamed to have been in one of those places. The shame is not mine; the church should be ashamed. They say now they're sorry - what they mean is, sorry they were found out.

  Mary Norris

  Sorry, Mean, Church

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• If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?

  Scott Pelley

  Holocaust, Interviews, Energy

  "Hellfire and Heresy: Global Warming Hotheads Inflamed About Skeptical Challengers". www.forbes.com. March 23, 2006.

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• For survivors, the word closure often connotes that the bereaved are underachievers who flunked a grief course.

  Earl A Grollman

  Grief, Grieving, Closure

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• I couldn’t move. It’s something I’m still ashamed of. You always wonder how you’ll handle a moment of crisis; if you’ve got what it takes to fight or if you’ve just been deluding yourself all along that somewhere deep inside you there’s steel beneath the magnolia. Now I knew the truth. There wasn’t. I was all petals and pollen. Good for attracting the procreators who could ensure the survival of our species, but not a survivor myself. I was Barbie after all.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Moving, Fighting, Survival

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• I won't waste your time with the injuries of my childhood, with my loneliness, or the fear and sadness of the years I spent inside my parents' marriage, under the reign of my father's rage, afer all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood?

  Nicole Krauss

  Father, Loneliness, Sadness

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.200, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It must've been Albert's military background, because man, when he dropped a bomb the entire country shook. I was still jittery as a hurricane survivor in New Orleans, and I was sure that somewhere in Alaska some poor Inuit had just taken a tumble from his sled for the very same reason.

  Jennifer Rardin

  Country, Military, Taken

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• No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appall you at any other time because life has temporarily lost all meaning.

  Patrick Ness

  War, Accepting, Lost

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• Survivor has been such a hit, and out of that have come so many interesting stories from people that we don't see on the big screen. We have helped make them incredible celebrities.

  Mary Hart

  People, Interesting, Stories

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• The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It destroys communities and makes humanity impossible. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers... In winning our freedom, we will so appeal to you heart and conscience that we will win you in the process.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Heart, Eye, Winning

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• I was actually very pleased that they let me do it, because I feel very deeply for breast cancer survivors. I don't have it, but it is in my family. I've always been very aware of it. I go for mammograms and checkups.

  Erika Slezak

  Cancer, Mammograms, My Family

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• As the generation of Holocaust survivors and liberators dwindles, the torch of remembrance, of bearing witness, and of education must continue forward.

  Dan Gillerman

  Remembrance, Holocaust, Torches

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• I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot.

  Albert Brooks

  Feet, Would Be, Want

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

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Victory, Massacres, Ifs

  "Ethan of Athos". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1986.

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• Young girls come up to me all the time to ask for advice. They see me as a survivor.

  Drew Barrymore

  Girl, Advice, Come Up

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• 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

  Race, Quality, Spirit

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• The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

  Max Lerner

  Lessons, Written

  Max Lerner (1943). “It is Later Than You Think: The Need for a Militant Democracy”

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• One of the things that Claire [ McCaskill] and I are trying to do is put systems on campus in place so that a survivor knows who to talk to - that there's somebody who's an expert on their campus that will know all their options from day one and really empower them to make their own decision about what they want to do.

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Empowering, Decision, Trying

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.

  Annie Dillard

  Survival, Emergencies, Kind

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.9, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Survivor Series is something that was very surreal to me to be a part of, but now, I just want to do it again.

  CM Punk

  Want, Surreal, Series

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. December 1, 2006.

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• I am about to get involved with the biggest cancer hospital in Norway. They are building a fitness center to work with patients. I will be a consultant.

  Grete Waitz

  Fitness, Cancer, Norway

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• What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Whole, Ifs, Universe

  "A Lasting Peace Through the Federation of Europe". Book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1756.

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• To some degree, the critic arises out of that negativity bias in that our brains are oriented towards threat and toward survival. The critic really started as a survivor mechanism in early infancy and childhood when we were trying to navigate our early family system and culture; when we're learning how to fit in so we could optimize that flow of love and affection. It was an internal voice telling us to shut certain patterns and reactions down, that negativity bias that's always looking for what's wrong, looking for the threat.

  Mark Coleman

  Voice, Childhood, Negativity

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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