Survivor Quotes - Page 9

• I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor.

  Missy Elliot

  Mother, First Love, Firsts

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• The idea of 'Voice of Witness' is to let survivors and witnesses of human-rights abuses tell their story at length. It started with a course that I co-taught at U.C. Berkeley journalism school back in 2003.

  Dave Eggers

  School, Rights, Ideas

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• Last year, I was on Threat Matrix. We were on Thursday against Friends and Survivor; so this year it's fun to know people are watching, and to know that all of your hard work is not sort of wasted.

  James Denton

  Fun, Hard Work, Years

  "James Denton: Desperate Plumber". Interview with Dan Kapelovitz, kapelovitz.com. February 2005.

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• Survivors do not mourn together. They each mourn alone, even when in the same place. Grief is the most solitary of all feelings. Grief isolates, and every ritual, every gesture, every embrace, is a hopeless effort to break through that isolation. None of it works. The forms crumble and dissolve. To face death is to stand alone.

  Steven Erikson

  Grief, Break Through, Effort

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• I have survivor's curiosity, I guess.

  George H. W. Bush

  Curiosity

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• Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

  Pearl S. Buck

  People, Chinese, Relentless

  1972 China, Past and Present, ch.1.

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• By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.

  James Buchan

  Pouring, Sometimes, Aids

  "War Games: The Story of Aid and War in Modern Times by Linda Polman". www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2010.

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• I am not a victim. I am an angry survivor.

  Nina Bawden

  Victim, Angry

  Nina Bawden (2011). “Dear Austen”, p.19, Hachette UK

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• But then, look at me. My brain is incorrectly formed, and I'm shaped like a tube. Plus, I'm an alcoholic, a "survivor" of childhood sexual abuse, was raised in a cult and have no education. So, really, if you think about it, the only thing that separates me from the guy with the stinky foot and no teeth is a book deal and some cologne.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Book, Thinking, Feet

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “Magical Thinking”, p.211, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• As a professor in two fields, neurology and psychiatry, I am fully aware of the extent to which man is subject to biological, psychological and sociological conditions. But in addition to being a professor in two fields I am a survivor of four camps - concentration camps, that is - and as such I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, Two, Four

  Viktor E. Frankl (2011). “The Unheard Cry for Meaning: Psychotherapy and Humanism”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• I personally know women who are Breast Cancer survivors and will do all I can to support the cause. Besides, I love boobies!

  Jane Wiedlin

  Cancer, Support, Causes

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• I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore.

  Carrie Fisher

  Difficult Situations, Want, Not Interested

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• It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.

  Chinua Achebe

  Memories, Storyteller, Surviving

  "Chinua Achebe and Nairobi Half Life" by Hayden Bixby, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2013.

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• It's weird, I was such a survivor and so wanted to be a part of life while I was trying to snuff out the life that was inside of me. I had this duality of trying to kill myself with drugs, then eating really good food and exercising and going swimming and trying to be a part of life. I was always going back and forth on some level.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Swimming, Exercise, Drug

  Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman (2004). “Scar Tissue”, p.116, Hachette UK

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• You told me it was a mistake to fight the scarred warriors. They were the survivors.

  Michael Scott

  Mistake, Fighting, Warrior

  Michael Scott (2010). “The Necromancer”, p.80, Random House

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• I was a rust repairer. I was a rust repairer and full-time survivor. I survived all the major earthquakes, and the Titanic, and several air crash.

  Keith Moon

  Air, Earthquakes, Rust

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

  Courtney Love

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• I like to see people who are survivors wearing my shoes. I am fascinated by people who can bounce back.

  Christian Louboutin

  Shoes, People, Bounce

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• I think that women are powerful and they're multifaceted and they're survivors; they don't have to depend on a man to do the things they needed them to do, whether it was hunting or lifting heavy things, so what's a man's place now? Who knows!

  Rashida Jones

  Powerful, Men, Thinking

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• My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying.

  Michael C. Hall

  Mother, Trying, Happens

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• 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, Years, Radio

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• Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.

  Bear Grylls

  Earthquakes, Looks, Ends

  Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.

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• Hurray, Hallelujah, and Happy Prostate! Finally, someone has taken the years and done the work, so the rest of us no longer need suffer from ignorance as to how to have good prostate health. That someone is Roger Mason, and all that one needs to know in order to have a happy prostate has been distilled down into this one book. I would stake the health of my prostate on it, and can tell you as a prostate cancer survivor; it is the ONLY way to go.

  Dirk Benedict

  Cancer, Book, Taken

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• I have always said about myself I am a survivor because I am.

  Lee Tergesen

  Said

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• I had my first 'Survivor Series' in 1991 and I was fortunate enough to be an instrumental part of the shows I was on.

  Ric Flair

  Firsts, Enough, Shows

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