Survivor Quotes - Page 7

• Some brave chrysanthemums still stood in the country gardens, but they looked like bedraggled survivors of a battle, barely able to hold their tattered banners upright. October was at the gates and autumn was in full retreat.

  Patricia Moyes

  Country, Autumn, Garden

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• Being a breast cancer survivor, as I like to call myself - it will be twenty years next year - I did it to make it possible for women to do regular self breast examinations. It's really important - and, it makes common sense: you know your body better than the doctor does who only sees you once a year, you know?

  Olivia Newton-John

  Cancer, Self, Years

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I'm not sure I'd classify any topics as off-limits, but I don't look for new territories to offend. There's my joke about when my roommate beat cancer. People talk about cancer survivors like they're warriors, but from where I was sitting, she was just watching television and eating soup. Like, did she go to war? No. She kind of just sat around.

  Amy Schumer

  War, Cancer, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• 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

  Responsibility, People, Passionate

  "Small Business Marketing Resources". Experian Interview, www.experian.com.

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• In brief, we who write are all in the same boat, as if we are survivors of torpedoes, and we hope to reach the shores of thought with strength for more activity.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Writing, Boat, Torpedoes

  Mary Ritter Beard, Nancy F. Cott (1991). “A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters”, p.229, Yale University Press

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• Disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods, oil spills and radioactive fallout cause massive death of people, pigs, bats and birds. These disasters also impact the immune health of survivors. All harbor viruses.

  Paul Stamets

  Impact, Volcanoes, Pigs

  "Agarikon: Ancient Mushroom for Modern Medicine" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2012.

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• First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor.

  Patti Smith

  Firsts

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• When Oscar Niemeyer died on December 5, 2012, ten days before his 105th birthday, he was universally regarded as the very last of the twentieth century's major architectural masters, an astonishing survivor whose most famous accomplishment, Brasilia, was the climactic episode of utopian High Modern urbanism.

  Martin Filler

  Accomplishment, Oscars, Lasts

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• Before I started chemotherapy treatments, I wrote down the best advice from doctors, family, friends, books, and survivors and created an 'Owner's Manual' to help me take care of myself. It would remind me that cancer is doable.

  Regina Brett

  Cancer, Book, Doctors

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• A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.

  Natalie Wood

  Natasha, Changed

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• In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to past revolutions, without insight into the present movement, but preserving popular influence by their known honesty and courage, or by the sheer force of tradition; others mere brawlers, who, by dint of repeating year after year the same set of stereotyped declamations against the government of the day, have sneaked into the reputation of revolutionists of the first water They are an unavoidable evil: with time they are shaken off.

  Karl Marx

  Honesty, Past, Men

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.594, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Both of our daughters, Debbie and Bonnie, are also cancer survivors.

  David Wilkerson

  Daughter, Mother, Cancer

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• You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.

  Alice Walker

  Thinking, Race, Should

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• I don't look at her like she's a bad girl. She just misunderstood sometime, she's a little troubled, she's a little dysfunctional. She's a survivor.

  Aida Turturro

  Girl, Misunderstood, Looks

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• My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Book, Heart, Tragedy

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• I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what makes people resilient is the ability to find humour and irony in situations that would otherwise overpower you.

  Amy Tan

  Skills, People, Irony

  "Ghosts at my shoulder" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. March 02, 2001.

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• I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back.

  Steven Spielberg

  War, Cities, People

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• I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don't know how

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Believe, School

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.84, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I try to destroy taboo in fashion-which is something I learned as a kid. I come from the street, and you have to be a survivor.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Fashion, Kids, Trying

  "Riccardo Tisci's Romantic Warrior". www.elle.com. May 24, 2012.

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• Elend shook his head. "We can survive this. But, the only way that will happen is if our people don't give up. They need leaders who laugh, leaders who feel that this fight can be won. So, this is what I ask of you. I don't care if you're an optimist or a pessimist—I don't care if secretly, you think we'll all be dead before the month ends. On the outside, I want to see you smiling. Do it in defiance, if you have to. If the end does come, I want this group to meet that end smiling. As the Survivor taught us.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Fighting

  Brandon Sanderson (2008). “The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn”, p.117, Macmillan

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• Both of my grandmothers were diagnosed with breast cancer - one is a survivor and one passed away.

  Jessica Simpson

  Cancer, Grandmother, Passed Away

  "Shoes on Sale: Q&A with Jessica Simpson". Interview with Jordan Saniuk, footwearnews.com. October 12, 2009.

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• And I'll tell you, honestly, folks that I talk to, the 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in America, that I am one of, understand that we're done with insurance companies dropping us or denying us coverage because of - because we have a preexisting condition.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Cancer, America, Done

  "Reps. Ryan, Wasserman Schultz on 'FNS'". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 21, 2010.

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• I AM VERY MOVED BY SURVIVORS. BY PEOPLE WHO KNOW HOW TO OVERCOME A HANDICAP, A SITUATION, OR ANYTHING. VISITING THE HEARTS AND SOULS OF THOSE PEOPLE TEACHES ME A LOT ABOUT HUMANS AND HUMANITY.

  Marion Cotillard

  Heart, People, Soul

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• 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

  Girl, Crazy, Mean

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• The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  War, Envy, Nuclear

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