Survived Quotes

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

One can live without having survived

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

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.

Never trust a survivor until you know how they survived.

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

Nothing could have survived our life.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Most people who have survived abuse have great strength.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I have survived two wars, two wives and Hitler.

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

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

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

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

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

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'.

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.

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

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.

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

In an interstellar burst, I am back to save the universe. In a deep deep sleep of the innocent, I am born again. In a fast German car, I'm amazed that I survived, An airbag saved my life...

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I'm a mom. I'm from Ethiopia. I gave birth in the U.S. and had all the proper care available to me. If I had given birth in Ethiopia - I don't know if I might have even survived it.