Survivor Quotes

Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer.

Survivor is like rock 'n' roll - you can do what you want.

I'm a survivor and I can handle anything. I'm very confident about that.

I'm the last survivor of a dead culture. And I don't really belong in the world anymore. And in some ways I feel I ought to be dead.

The Holocaust survivors are among the most inspiring people I have had the privilege to meet.

I have the greatest respect for the survivors of the Holocaust. We can't even imagine what these people went through.

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.

We have to stop arresting prostitutes and not arresting traffickers and pimps. It's absurd. We're arresting the victim or the survivor and not the oppressor.

If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.

We were fortunate enough to have several good books detailing the camps and the women. Some were by the survivors. I also got to talk to some of the women who had been in the camp, survivors.

In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors.

I am a survivor of domestic violence.

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

The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.

No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot survivor of that time, that place.

All of us are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?

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

You can get used to anything - haven't I already said that? Isn't that what all survivors say?

He was swept with a sadness, a sadness deep and penetrating, leaving him desolate like someone washed up on a beach, a lone survivor in a world full of strangers.

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

I love being a part of storytelling, so whether I'm getting to do that on Survivor, or do it through kids' adventure books, or directing a movie, it's all sort of the same: Once Upon a Time...

I consider myself a survivor more than anything else.

People who live through transplants or disasters like Sept. 11 are survivors.

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.

I feel good about the work I do on Survivor and am proud of my contribution.

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.

Hi, I'm Bill. I'm a birth survivor.

Look, I'm a cancer survivor, all right? So I have great personal empathy for people who have pre-existing conditions and can't get insurance.

The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.

Death fixes forever the relation existing between the departed spirit and the survivors upon earth.

After Survivor, I was driving across country and moving to San Francisco, going to get a job interning at an ad agency. And then they asked me to read for this movie.

If history is a record of survivors, Poetry shelters other voices.

I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.

The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.

I'm not sure I would label it a 'survivor,'" said Iko, her sensor darkening with disgust. "It looks more like a rotting pumpkin.

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.

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

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

The last thing I want to be known as is 'The Girl Who Got Raped'. The big turn around you make in your head is from victim to survivor.

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

I am a survivor and not a victim. Life isn't perfect. When you get a knock, you have to get up, dust yourself down and get on with it.

Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors.

I'll never be considered one of the all-time greats; maybe not even one of the all-time goods. But I'm one of the all-time survivors.

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.

It occurred to me that if I did not handle the crash correctly, there would be no survivors.

There is no shame in being a survivor of sexual violence. The shame is on the aggressor.

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.

I can almost hear Haymitch groaning as I team up with this wispy child. But I want her. Because she's a survivor, and I trust her, and why not admit it? She reminds me of Prim.

I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too.

The feat of surviving is directly related to the capacity of the survivor.