Survived Quotes - Page 3

• But we survived, didn’t we? That makes it an adventure. If you get killed it’s a tragedy.

  Garth Nix

  Adventure, Tragedy, Ifs

  Garth Nix (2010). “The Keys to the Kingdom #3: Drowned Wednesday”, p.20, Scholastic Inc.

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• Invulnerable to time, dedicated to the messianic happiness of thinking for us, knowing that we knew that he would not take any decision for us that did not have our measure, for he had not survived everything because of his inconceivable courage or his infinite prudence but because he was the only one among us who knew the real size of our destiny.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Real, Autumn, Destiny

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• A day merely survived is no cause for celebration.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Unimportant Things, Causes

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.85, Bantam

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

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Should, Ought

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• In so many ways, he had wanted this his whole life—or at least ever since he’d survived his transition and had any sexual impulse at all. This moment was the culmination of countless daydreams and innumerable fantasies, his secret desire made manifest.

  J.R. Ward

  Secret, Desire, Transition

  J. R. Ward (2013). “Lover at Last: Number 11 in series”, p.216, Hachette UK

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• And tonight our skin, our bones, that have survived our fathers, will meet, delicate in the hold, fastened together in an intricate lock. Then one of us will shout, "My need is more desperate!" and I will eat you slowly with kisses even though the killer in you has gotten out.

  Anne Sexton

  Father, Kissing, Skins

  Anne Sexton (1999). “Love Poems”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Chris Cleave

  Mean, Thinking, Dying

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Courage, Men, Tablets

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• My God", he whispered. What have I done to her? He thought, humbled. The spell was broken, but it wasn't sealed, and her soul was bare to him, the scars of her tragic past and her triumphs over pain and her aching need to find her place. He just wanted to hold her to him and tell her it would be okay, that she had survived and was beautiful.

  Kim Harrison

  Beautiful, Pain, Past

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• Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Powerful, Book, July

  "The Full Text: Malala Yousafzai Delivers Defiant Riposte to Taliban Militants With Speech to the Un General Assembly". www.independent.co.uk. July 12, 2013.

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• We wish we could have been there for you. We didn't have many role models of our own--we latched on to the foolish love of Oscar Wilde and the well-versed longing of Walt Whitman because nobody else was there to show us an untortured path. We were going to be your role models. We were going to give you art and music and confidence and shelter and a much better world. Those who survived lived to do this. But we haven't been there for you. We've been here. Watching as you become the role models.

  David Levithan

  Art, Giving, Role Models

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.113, Egmont UK

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

  George Carlin

  Atheist, Practice, Circumcision

  George Carlin (2009). “Last Words”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits to adapt to and flourish in habitats as varied as deserts, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforests, wetlands and high mountain ranges.

  David Suzuki

  Mountain Ranges, Years, Brain

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• The trick at every turn was to endure the test of living for as long as possible. The odds of survival were punishingly slim, for the world was naught by a school of calamity and an endless burning furnace of tribulation. But those who survived the world shaped it--even as the world, simultaneously, shaped them.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  School, Odds, Long

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.443, A&C Black

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• And even if she isn’t—even if by some miracle, she survived the escape and has been squeezing out a living in the Wilds—she would never join forces with the resisters. She would never be violent or vengeful. Not Lena, who used to practically faint when she pricked a finger, who couldn’t even lie to a teacher about being late. She wouldn’t have the stomach for it.

  Lauren Oliver

  Teacher, Lying, Miracle

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

  Kim Harrison

  Beautiful, Would Be, Okay

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• They were now both ready, not to begin from scratch, but to continue with a love that had survived for thirteen years in hibernation. They were no longer travellers without baggage. They were no longer twenty. They'd both been around the block a bit and had suffered without the other. They'd both lost their way without the other.  Each had tried to find love with other people. But all that was now finished.

  Guillaume Musso

  Love, Block, Years

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• 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.

  Thomas Sowell

  Black, Crow, Expansion

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• The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Childhood, Independence, Adults

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, Vintage

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• We've survived by believing our life is going to get better.

  Paul Simon

  Believe, Get Better, Life Is

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• 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.

  Charlie Sheen

  Jobs, Dad, Class

  Interview with David Rensin, www.playboy.com. April 15, 2011.

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• Mad Eye' Moody on the Avada Kedavra curse: "Not nice," he said calmly. "Not pleasant. And there's no counter curse. There's no blocking it. Only one known person has ever survived it, and he's sitting right in front of me.

  J. K. Rowling

  Block, Nice, Eye

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• The first objection to Darwinism is that it is only a guess and was never anything more. It is called a "hypothesis," but the word "hypothesis," though euphonious, dignified and high-sounding, is merely a scientific synonym for the old-fashioned word "guess." If Darwin had advanced his views as a guess they would not have survived for a year, but they have floated for half a century, buoyed up by the inflated word "hypothesis." When it is understood that "hypothesis" means "guess," people will inspect it more carefully before accepting it.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Mean, Acceptance, Science

  "God and Evolution". The New York Times, February 26, 1922.

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

  Wallace Stevens

  Literature, Spirit, Humans

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.249, Vintage

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• 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.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mountain, Meat, Village

  Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld”, p.24, Random House

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