Quotes about Survived

No culture that has ever embraced homosexuality has survived. Votes: 2

We've survived by believing our life is going to get better. Votes: 2

I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel. Votes: 2

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not. Votes: 2

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them. Votes: 2

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long. Votes: 2

Sharks are among the most perfectly constructed creatures in nature. Some forms have survived for two hundred million years. Votes: 2

When I look back on my life, I wonder how I survived - my mother said I had a guardian angel. Votes: 2

Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived. Votes: 2

The reason why I have survived as long as I have survived is what my friends, comrades and supporters thought was an extraordinarily cautious approach. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state. Votes: 2

I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you. Votes: 2

In August of 2002, I survived a car accident. Although I can still see the van speeding toward us, I cannot bring to mind the crash itself - only its aftermath. Votes: 2

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again. Votes: 2

That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal. Votes: 2

Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer firefighters, so we label these men heroes. Votes: 2

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.' Votes: 2

I'm not the only one; most people's mothers are the most influential person in their life. But my mother survived the camps, and she was very strong. She made me strong, but she wanted me to be strong. That's more important. Votes: 2

The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. It's like a cancer that's metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why? Votes: 2

Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear. Votes: 2

Man is a competitive creature, and the seeds of conflict are built deep into our genes. We fought each other on the savannah and only survived against great odds by organising ourselves into groups which would have had a common purpose, giving morale and fortitude. Votes: 2

My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don't be greedy, work hard for the necessities in life knowing that money does not make you better or more important than anyone else. So, extravagance has been bred out of my DNA. Votes: 2

My ancestors fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War; I was raised in Natchez, Miss.; I performed in the Confederate Pageant for a decade; I dug ditches and loaded trucks with black men who taught me more than any book ever could; and I graduated from Ole Miss. Anyone who survived that is a de facto expert on the South. Votes: 2

The book is called 'A House in the Sky' because during the very, very darkest times, that was how I survived. I had to find a safe place to go in my mind where there was no violence being done to my body and where I could reflect on the life I had lived and the life that I still wanted to live. Votes: 2

I don't think that I could have survived in my family without a naughty sense of humor; yeah, absolutely. I think my brother and I both get our senses of humor from our parents. I mean, my mother was absolutely hilarious and foul. She had the most ridiculously off color sense of humor, so that was sort of what we grew up with. Votes: 2

I'm a teen distortion, survived abortion. Votes: 0

I felt guilty because I survived. Votes: 0

One can live without having survived Votes: 0

Nothing could have survived our life. Votes: 0

Faced with destruction, the Jewish people survived. Votes: 0

We are powerful because we have survived Votes: 0

Battle scars just remind us that we survived. Votes: 0

I survived, but it's not a happy ending. Votes: 0

...if I survived the Marines, I can survive Ali. Votes: 0

The creative adult is the child who has survived. Votes: 0

Most people who have survived abuse have great strength. Votes: 0

I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really. Votes: 0

I have survived two wars, two wives and Hitler. Votes: 0

Every perversion has survived many tests of its capabilities. Votes: 0

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived. Votes: 0

Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived. Votes: 0

I already survived one apocalypse, I don't need another. Votes: 0

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else. Votes: 0

No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will. Votes: 0

A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. Votes: 0

I've been married a couple of times and survived! Votes: 0

Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself. Votes: 0

You survived the abuse, you're going to survive the recovery. Votes: 0

I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention. Votes: 0

If I had feelings, I probably wouldn't have even survived. Votes: 0

Without faith and hope, how could we have survived life~? Votes: 0

Aren't I lucky, to have survived so much bad luck. Votes: 0

Without faith and hope, how could we have survived life? Votes: 0

she died.i survived because i survived.i die everyday. Votes: 0

Merely to have survived is not an index of excellence. Votes: 0

Someone has to spread the good news that we survived. Votes: 0

Never trust a survivor until you know how they survived. Votes: 0

History is lived through and, for the fortunate, survived by people. Votes: 0

I've seen the future, and I survived the test of time. Votes: 0

Mankind has survived all catastrophes. It will also survive modern medicine Votes: 0

Because I survived, I must do everything possible to help others. Votes: 0

It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics. Votes: 0

It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics Votes: 0

I survived many a youth hostel bunk room reading Tolstoy by flashlight. Votes: 0

Don't yell at me when I just survived a near-death experience. (Abbie) Votes: 0

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived. Votes: 0

Sadie Kane here. If you're listening to this, congratulations, you survived doomsday. Votes: 0

I think I survived by running away some. Running away to work. Votes: 0

The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us. Votes: 0

Wow, you survived a blackout. You're made of stronger stuff than ice cream. Votes: 0

Captain Ahab drowned, he reminded himself; it was the trimmer, Ishmael, who survived. Votes: 0

A few names have survived oblivion. In time, oblivion will have them all. Votes: 0

A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived. Votes: 0

That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say. Votes: 0

It was the bumble bee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur. Votes: 0

I have survived and possibly I should not hope for more than that. Votes: 0

Was it harder to die, or harder to be the one who survived? Votes: 0

My family survived losing money to Bernie Madoff incredibly well compared to others. Votes: 0

I can't think of a greater legacy than, "Because you lived, another species survived." Votes: 0

Scars are beautiful when we see them as glorious reminders that we courageously survived. Votes: 0

Even a man who had survived a hundred battle can break in his hundred-and-first. Votes: 0

In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived. Votes: 0

You might have lost some major battles, but you survived and you're still here. Votes: 0

Life is not tried it is merely survived if you're standing outside the fire. Votes: 0

I had a great '70s. I survived it, and that's always good news. Votes: 0

I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived. Votes: 0

What I do know is that wondering why you survived don't help you survive. Votes: 0

We're not blank slates. What we've done, what we've survived all go into us. Votes: 0

What they did to me does not matter, what matters is I survived the circumstance. Votes: 0

No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours. Votes: 0

If memory survived eternally, then indeed there might be justification for a belief in hell. Votes: 0

I am doing just fine, considering that I have triumphantly survived Nazism and two wives. Votes: 0

There's never been a civilization that has rewritten what marriage and family means and survived. Votes: 0

I'd love to be faster. Physically I'm limited, but I've survived by using my head. Votes: 0

It blew my mind that this stuff had survived for two thousand, three thousand years. Votes: 0

That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said. Votes: 0

The Jesus Movement had survived the fad phase and was settling down for the long haul. Votes: 0

The girl I am now, this girl-she survived. I just needed a little help getting here. Votes: 0

Somehow Jesus's reputation has survived all the embarrassing things that Christians have done in his name. Votes: 0

My situation should have been a lot worse. By rights I shouldn't have survived the crash. Votes: 0

I barely remembered my father; I'm confused between genuine memory and the few photographs that survived. Votes: 0

The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived. Votes: 0

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived. Votes: 0

Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived. Votes: 0

One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived. Votes: 0

One of the most compelling arguments for the Christian faith is the simple fact that it survived. Votes: 0

I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong...I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes. Votes: 0

What survived as orthodox Christianity did so by suppressing and forcibly eliminating a lot of other material. Votes: 0

The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over. Votes: 0

I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath. Votes: 0

You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it. Votes: 0

How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend? Votes: 0

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation. Votes: 0

It can be demonstrated from history that no society has ever survived after its family life deteriorated. Votes: 0

We survived Nixon and Reagan and George Bush, and so we can survive anything that comes along. Votes: 0

But we survived, didn't we? That makes it an adventure. If you get killed it's a tragedy. Votes: 0

She endured. And survived. Marginally, perhaps, but it is not required of us that we live well. Votes: 0

I play the unsinkable Molly Brown, which is where she got her name from, because she survived. Votes: 0

It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career. Votes: 0

Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith. Votes: 0

I survived, carried on, glad to be like a weed, a wild red poppy, rooted in life. Votes: 0

The Founders believed that pluralism survived only within the concept of religious liberty espoused by American Christianity. Votes: 0

I survive. I survived it all then and I'll survive the rest of it. Without your help. Votes: 0

Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them. Votes: 0

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace. Votes: 0

There is no way that I could have survived if I had not changed my style of play. Votes: 0

No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income. Votes: 0

Copernicanism and other essential ingredients of modern science survived only because reason was frequently overruled in their past. Votes: 0

Man has survived and prospered for more than 150,000 years on this planet without the help of use-by dates. Votes: 0

She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived. Votes: 0

No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy. Votes: 0

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in. Votes: 0

Sharing our depressions felt like having survived a war. The experience bonds you to the other person for life. Votes: 0

Life keeps getting better. If anything, you start to carry a certain pride in having survived all those years. Votes: 0

What surprised me most about the Donner tragedy was that, given the terrible circumstances, how anyone survived at all. Votes: 0

TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wrote' all those years. Votes: 0

I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere. Votes: 0

We survived a Slayer crowd every night for about 50 days and thought we could do about anything after that. Votes: 0

I was overpowered by the mere sensation of that dream and it alone survived in my sorely wounded heart. Votes: 0

I feel like I have a Ph.D. in life, I'm a survivor. I've not only survived, I've thrived. Votes: 0

Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. Votes: 0

I feel like I have a Ph.D. in life, I'm a survivor. I've not only survived, I've thrived, Votes: 0

From every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story. A story that says, "I survived." Votes: 0

He'll survive," he answered her. "Just as he's survived everything else in his life. But he'll never be the same. Votes: 0

Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived. Votes: 0

Human beings have survived for millennia because most of us make good decisions about our health most of the time. Votes: 0

Because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures. Votes: 0

I basically lived through what could have been my downfall and survived it, so whatever comes my way, I'm ready. Votes: 0

A city built on rivers and bituminous coal, Pittsburgh in the '90s has survived the boom and bust years. Votes: 0

Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo. Votes: 0

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived. Votes: 0

If I'd stopped believing that my life would eventually get better, I don't think I would have survived high school. Votes: 0

Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot. Votes: 0

People respect you because they feel you've survived hard times and endured, and although you've become famous, you haven't become phony. Votes: 0

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies. Votes: 0

You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot. Votes: 0

To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift. Votes: 0

History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time. Votes: 0

The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation. Votes: 0

Each wedding picture was less of a memento than a scar. Proof of some horror movie scenario Katherine Kenton has survived. Votes: 0

Where I came from, the nights I had wandered and survived scared them, and where I would go they never imagined. Votes: 0

now I know that my punishment from starclan is not that the other kits died but that this one survived" -yellowfang Votes: 0

Let him join the men of the past. Her old lovers were ghosts. None of them had survived; none were missed. Votes: 0

Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock. Votes: 0

I wanted to be able to tell my grandkids one day, "Hey, your grandpa ran into a burning building and survived." Votes: 0

I also survived circumcision, a barbaric practice designed to remind you as early as possible that your genitals are not your own. Votes: 0

How Cable survived Second Coming and what his responsibility is to his daughter, Hope, may have something to do with the Avengers. Votes: 0

If you're actually talking to someone who's been through a disastrous number of years, that only means one thing: They survived it. Votes: 0

...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre. Votes: 0

He really did not care whether he survived or not, so long as it rendered him unconscious and absolved him of responsibility. Votes: 0

Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived. Votes: 0

He just wanted to hold her to him and tell her it would be okay, that she had survived and was beautiful. Votes: 0

I survived my childhood by birthing many separate identities to stand in for one another in times of great stress and fear. Votes: 0

I like to think of birthdays as celebrating life." "Only losers acknowledge they survived a year and hope they cheat death again. Votes: 0

With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult. Votes: 0

Miriam Sacher had survived polio as a child. To Abraham, she was simply the most exquisite little bird who could not fly. Votes: 0

Bulletproof is about the fact that I was shot in the face and survived. Nah I'm joking that'd be grisly and awful. Votes: 0

There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic. Votes: 0

In this chaotic and diverse world, the human race wouldn't have survived and co-exited, thanks to universally shared values. Saved by values! Votes: 0

You don't restore 'The Last Supper' by filling in the missing bits - you preserve. You accept the material that has somehow survived. Votes: 0

I did not want to be labelled the designer who survived the atomic bomb, and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima. Votes: 0

You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered. Votes: 0

There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived. Votes: 0

The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory. He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived intact. Votes: 0

Don't worry, America. We survived Jimmy Carter, and we will survive Barack Obama. Only one questions remains... who is the next Ronald Reagan? Votes: 0

After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived and ultimately flourished. Votes: 0

So when I got to 50 I just thought, Hold on: I'm thin. I've got my hair. I'm well off. I survived, you know Votes: 0

Remember all those times I swore I needed you? Well consider them lies because baby here I am without you and I survived. Votes: 0

[The Euclidean algorithm is] the granddaddy of all algorithms, because it is the oldest nontrivial algorithm that has survived to the present day. Votes: 0

When you have walked through the hell of your negative thoughts and survived, no pain on this earth will ever again worry you. Votes: 0

You know, I've had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I've survived it's all because of you. Votes: 0

There is something predetermined in the mutual attraction between Germany and Russia. Otherwise, this attraction would not have survived two ghastly World Wars. Votes: 0

I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story. Votes: 0

For nearly 2 million years, our ancestors survived and thrived and spread across the planet because they could run other mammals into heat exhaustion. Votes: 0

I did not want to be labelled 'the designer who survived the atomic bomb,' and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima. Votes: 0

There is often in people in whom 'the worst' has happened an almost transcendent freedom, for they have faced 'the worst' and survived it. Votes: 0

Humanity has survived because the strong among us have, in the past, been obliged to help the weak. Without this, we would not survive. Votes: 0

If you love life you also love the past, because it is the present as it has survived in memory." Translation by David Downie Votes: 0

We can't afford the wrath of Heaven. We survived a deluge by the skin of our teeth, but an economic crisis would be disastrous. Votes: 0

The National Park Service shot a mule in the face. He survived but had trouble swallowing and often food came out of his nose. Votes: 0

The Travises who had survived were the most purely stubborn people on earth, the kind who relied on their backbones when their wishbones were broken. Votes: 0

Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart? Votes: 0

The bond between the United States and Britain has always been strong. It has survived through war and peace, periods of prosperity and economic hardship. Votes: 0

Now I know why women get their ears pierced. Once they've survived this ordeal of mutilation, they can face the discomforts of childbirth with equanimity. Votes: 0

She turned so they were face-to-face and gave him back the words he'd offered her their first night together: "I survived. Isn't that what matters? Votes: 0

If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated suffering. Votes: 0

Some survived due to advancements in engineering. Personally I'd take a vaccine over living in an iron lung. http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/01/what-america-looked-like-polio-children-paralyzed-in-iron-lungs/251098/ Votes: 0

I just pinch myself, because I think if there's anything I can be proud of, I've survived success, which I think is difficult these days. Votes: 0

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. Votes: 0

Why should he be spared?''Someone ought to be.' And it will not be me. I have survived, but I have not been spared. Votes: 0

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family. Votes: 0

I just pinch myself, because I think if theres anything I can be proud of, Ive survived success, which I think is difficult these days. Votes: 0

I had a lot of time to think in the service; I swore that, if I survived, nothing would keep me from an acting career. Votes: 0

A 45-year old looks a lot like a 25-year old who's been out all night. And feels just as good about having survived the experience. Votes: 0

Very few castaways can claim to have survived so long at sea as Mr.Patel, and none in the company of an adult Bengal tiger. Votes: 0

But we survived, and we're a good family. I just don't want to dedicate one more tear, or watch my mother cry one more time. Votes: 0

We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have survived it. Votes: 0

Arnošt Lustig is one of the leading contemporary Czech fiction writers, and certainly the most important Jewish writer of Bohemia to have survived the Holocaust. Votes: 0

Well over fifty years ago I was making radio loudspeakers and radio sets in Rochester, New York; pretty young and inexperienced; but we survived the depression. Votes: 0

The only thing I can point to of why I survived is I have a family that loves me and never wanted any money from me. Votes: 0

Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing. Votes: 0

I've survived quite a few generations. That's because I never lost my enthusiasm. I wake up every morning like on Christmas Day, waiting for the gifts. Votes: 0

Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived. Votes: 0

All societies that have survived have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work--and therefore as dads. Votes: 0

For me, surviving Compton is surviving the men, because Suge and Dre are from Compton. So in my world, in my mind, I survived their mentality. Votes: 0

Yes, but . . .” She hesitated, her gaze finally coming to me. “I survived because I fell in love.” With you was unspoken. Votes: 0

In an interstellar burst I am back to save the universe In a fast German car I'm amazed that I survived An airbag saved my life Votes: 0

Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If you look at the first commercial transactions on the Internet, few of the early companies necessarily survived intact, but the ideas they invented became the industry. Votes: 0

The black family unit that had survived 150 years of slavery was decimated in less than 30 years by welfare payments that stopped if the family structure remained intact. Votes: 0

The Bible has, amazingly- no doubt with supernatural grace-survived its critics. The harder tyrants try to eliminate it and skeptics dismiss it, the better read it becomes. Votes: 0

When one remembers how the Catholic Church has been governed, and by whom, one realizes that it must have been divinely inspired to have survived at all. Votes: 0

So many people dwell on negativity and I've survived by ignoring it: it dims your light and it's harder each time to turn the power up again. Votes: 0

I saw his scars - the visible ones-and saw how breaking him had not made him any less beautiful. If anything, he stood stronger, because he'd survived. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects. Votes: 0

There's never been a civilization, ever in history, that has embraced homosexuality and turned away from traditional fidelity and traditional marriage, traditional child rearing, and has survived. Votes: 0

There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and gained a little, but survived after all. Votes: 0

A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived. Votes: 0

But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of September 11, 2001, our Nation has indeed survived. Votes: 0

I wouldn't be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived. Votes: 0

The old adage was true; the surest proof of the Faith is that it has survived for two thousand years....in spite of the men that run it. Votes: 0

If life were fair, we would never have suffered what we suffered at all; having suffered it and survived, we're still reacting to things that don't exist anymore. Votes: 0

I wouldnt be here today if it were not for the NHS, I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived. Votes: 0

Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again. Votes: 0

Usually, we have some of those nostalgic moments like, "Oh my god, I can't believe we survived that day," because filmmaking is such a wild roller coaster ride. Votes: 0

The primary reason America has survived is that we have had leaders who've respected the Constitution, feared it and the rule of law, and we've been very lucky there. Votes: 0

There's a ton of truth in Flannery O'Connor's notion that "Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days." Votes: 0

I'm a legend because I've survived over a long period of time and still seem to be master of my fate - I'm still paddling the goddamned boat myself. Votes: 0

The primary reason America has survived is that we have had leaders who've respected the Constitution, feared it and the rule of law, and we've been very lucky there. Votes: 0

Whenever I went to an historical moment that was sad or where something terrible happened, it was, for me, a learning moment, a teaching moment for those who survived. Votes: 0

High school wasn't a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You just had to provide the laugh track. Votes: 0

We wouldn't be alive without love we wouldn't have survived without running maybe we shouldn't be surprised that getting better at one could make you better at the other. Votes: 0

When we respond to threats immediately and take action right away, it's usually the threats that we're hard-wired to respond to, the kinds of things that our ancestors survived. Votes: 0

Anybody who knows something about the history of the human race knows that there is no civilization which has condoned homosexual marriage widely and openly that has long survived. Votes: 0

Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity? Votes: 0

What kind of world permitted such terrible injustice, where good men were stripped of everything and soulless creatures of malice and hatred survived to glory in their pointless death? Votes: 0

Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure. Votes: 0

Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts. Votes: 0

I'd much rather talk to a 30-year old that survived rough times in their lives [practicing Straight Edge] rather than someone that was harmed by a culture of violence. Votes: 0

First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out. Votes: 0

I survived on sandwiches, and I was on stage every night for six years of my life. I was working 16 hours a day between class, rehearsal, being on stage. Votes: 0

What he was scared of was not that maybe she was a creature who survived by drinking other people's blood. No, it was that she might push him away. Votes: 0

Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to realise his wishes- Now that he can realise them, he must either change them or perish Votes: 0

Think. In a minute from now you could be saying, I risked death. I threw for life, and I won life. It is a very wonderful feeling. To have survived. Votes: 0

I've been lucky to have survived balloon trips, boating trips, you know, a lot of rather foolish things in my life, so I was definitely born under a lucky star. Votes: 0

Reagan survived the Iran-Contra scandal because the elements of it that were illegal (aiding anti-communist Nicaraguans) were popular and the things that were unpopular (arming the Iranians) were quite legal. Votes: 0

I can survive setbacks, I've survived a lot of setbacks in my life. I don't see them as anything other than the natural ebb and flow of life and politics. Votes: 0

I want to live my life in a way that when I get really old, I look back at my life and say: aaah I lived it, not survived it. Votes: 0

I survived a number of garage bands during my teens and early twenties, both as drummer and guitarist. It's nigh impossible for me to listen to music without parsing it. Votes: 0

In the enclave, the strong and the physically perfect survived, but if you were strong, you protected the weak until they had an opportunity to grow into their own power. Votes: 0

Now to find Tristan, if he survived the excitement. I hope he did. I have some things to say to him, and none of them are 'Goddess bless'. -Numair Salmalin Votes: 0

It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself, Votes: 0

We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'. Votes: 0

That's kind of my ideal sequel - a movie that continues the story, takes one character and moves on, and moves forward with that character that survived with the first one. Votes: 0

I don't care what size you are or how old you are - once you see the results brought to you by regular exercise, you'll wonder how you survived without it. Votes: 0

I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up. Votes: 0

My faith survived because I realized God didn't want this for us, He never had. I'm passionately looking forward to a new Heaven and Earth where only good exists once more. Votes: 0

I feel no different than I felt at 99, 98 or 97. Just because you live a long time, you get all this attention. Just because you survived? Of course, I survived a lot. Votes: 0

In our early period we pretty much survived or perished on our capacity to reach people, and on getting into the pattern of having no money and playing lots of shows. Votes: 0

I feel like I barely survived Django (Unchained) emotionally - the violence, hearing the N-word every day. It cost me a lot psychologically, but it was worth it to tell that story. Votes: 0

Life has survived for more than three billion years because it is robust, and almost no mutations can easily outwit the defense mechanisms built up through eons of exposure to potential pathogens. Votes: 0

Ernest Rutherford's 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry wasn't given for the nuclear power station - he wouldn't have survived that long - it was given for showing how interesting atomic physics could be. Votes: 0

As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes wonder if we'll survive our own ingenuity. Votes: 0

It is astonishing to realise that the human species survived hundreds of thousands of years, more than 99 percent of its time on this planet, with a life expectancy of only eighteen years. Votes: 0

The Democratic Party is the - was the largest and most powerful institution supporting slavery in the English-speaking world. And it is the only one that has survived to the 21st century! Votes: 0

I'm probably the only novelist who has ever written about political fugitives who actually knew a lot about them, had contact with them, and had a realistic notion of how they survived. Votes: 0

In the early years of the Uprising, we survived on one meal a day of horse meat and soup, but by the end we ate only dried peas, dogs, cats and birds. Votes: 0

The seventeenth-century baby slept, as his nineteenth-century descendant does, in a cradle. Nothing could be prettier than the old cradles that have survived successive years of use with many generations of babies. Votes: 0

There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium, but art history is frozen in late-19th-century technology that has survived into the early 21st century. Votes: 0

People want to be successful, and they want to be acknowledged for what they do. Sometimes they make really great art and aren't. Historically, the best artists weren't. But their work survived. Votes: 0

Nazi Germany was so destructive to Judaism not only for the loss of life, but because many who survived began to see the practice of Judaism as somewhat of a health hazard. Votes: 0

I read all these stories that I don't know anything about politics. But I must know something. I've had some good victories in Congress, and I've survived this town for four years. Votes: 0

I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time. Votes: 0

No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under. Votes: 0

I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years and survived. We brought it back to the streets again. Votes: 0

One of my favorite things about hanging out with the monsters is the healing. Straight humans seemed to get killed on me a lot. Monsters survived. Let's hear it for the monsters. Votes: 0

These secrets are not secrets per se but are truths hidden from public view. I had to write this book. There had to be a reason I survived to tell this story. Votes: 0

What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money. Votes: 0

Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical borders is almost wholly devoid of ethnic Armenians. Votes: 0

This is the first adventure I’ve survived without being kidnapped, attacked, knocked unconscious or possessed by evil spirits. A ripped blouse? Ruined skirt? Bad hair? I’d call this progress. ~Jaime Vegas Votes: 0

Winston Churchill led the life that many men would love to live. He survived 50 gunfights and drank 20,000 bottles of champagne...And of course, by resisting Hitler, he saved Europe and perhaps the world. Votes: 0

Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had much better be concealed; namely, that their vanity has survived themselves. Votes: 0

The way I survived growing up in Jersey City was by being funny. It wasn't by being tough. Nobody thought of me as a tough kid, except for the kids I beat up. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on it thinking, Oh God, the things you did! Votes: 0

Where I'm fortunate and why I think I've thrived and survived, through the not having albums out every year-and-a-half, is not taking the songs lightly and trying to make sure I've got consistency. Votes: 0

I no longer scramble blindly through hardship. I no longer emerge from a bad time feeling relieved just to have survived. Instead of despairing, I try to find the lesson within the experience. Votes: 0

My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other friends have had cancer but survived it. Votes: 0

The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived. Votes: 0

Don't," she begged, knowing that surely she was trying his patience, that his kindness would stretch just so far, that if he were truly kind he could never have survived as a vampire. Votes: 0

You need to be proud of the fact that you survived everything you went through as a child. Don't seperate yourself from that life. Embrace it, because I'm so fucking proud of you. Votes: 0

Johnny Depp is, to me, a rare kindred spirit with like sensibilities, who has escaped the beast. He's probably one of the few people that have survived Los Angeles as a human being. Votes: 0

I don't panic. The same thing applies to me as to everybody else, so I'm given to euphoria and despair. And I would say that I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes. Votes: 0

Read the writers whose work is still around and has survived the winds of fashion and the attacks of the ignorant and the bigoted - read everything you can get your hands on. Votes: 0

There is one living organism, called a tardigrade, that has survived the five great mass extinctions on Earth, and it can survive in vacuums in space and boiling hot water and freezing subzero temperatures. Votes: 0

Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you... yet, someone survived... You can do anything you choose to do. Votes: 0

If you're smart you're just gonna be all about the work. But as a young person, you want to going out to clubs and doing all the stuff. I'm just glad I survived it. Votes: 0

Hip-hop has survived as a sonic practice more than anything else. It's an approach to music-making based in sampling and rhyming over beats, that's proven far more versatile than its detractors thought it would. Votes: 0

Virtually all native cultures that have survived without fouling their nests have acknowledged that nature knows best, and have had the humility to ask the bears and wolves and ravens and redwoods for guidance. Votes: 0

The craziest thing I've probably done during a show is the balcony dive - it was pretty scary. I was like, 'This could result in an injury of mine,' but somehow I survived. Votes: 0

Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period. Votes: 0

And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter. Votes: 0

All women are strong. My mother survived Auschwitz, and fear wasn't an option when we were growing up. If we were afraid of the dark, we were put into the closet until we weren't. Votes: 0

I have always survived with comedy, in that I grew up very dyslexic and did not get good grades. I always thought I was dumb, and there are many people out there that would agree Votes: 0

Everyone knew there were wolves in the mountains, but they seldom came near the village-the modern wolves were the offspring of ancestors that had survived because they had learned that human meat had sharp edges. Votes: 0

The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. I am the mockingjay. The one that survived despite the Capitol's plans. The symbol of the rebellion. Votes: 0

It is difficult to say today whether the Battle of Kosovo was a defeat or a victory for the Serbian people, whether thanks to it we fell into slavery or we survived in this slavery. Votes: 0

Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good. Votes: 0

Every person you see has stories, and every person you see has a few that would break your heart. We deserve each other's respect simply because we've survived all we have and kept going anyway. Votes: 0

I went to war. .... I survived, while other men around me died. ... men whose lives were crunched up in mistakes, and thrown away by the wrong second of someone else's hate, or love, or indifference. Votes: 0

Don't forget that the peace treaties with Egypt and later with Jordan have already survived several tests: two wars with Lebanon, two Palestinian uprisings, the attack on Gaza, the murder of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. Votes: 0