Survived Quotes - Page 9

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

  Marge Piercy

  Night, Anxiety, Scared

  Marge Piercy (2011). “The Hunger Moon: New and Selected Poems, 1980-2010”, p.190, Knopf

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• He has known joy and violence. Felt the warmth of children and the cruelty of abuse. He has nearly died saving lives and merely been killed by a drunken act. He has known the finery of grand estates and the filth of stinking slums. He has survived fire and flood, starvation and torment. And nothing could break his spirit-or his great love. This is HIS life. He is called the horse.

  Anna Sewell

  Horse, Children, Fire

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

  William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

  Science, Discovery, Birth

  "The Art of Scientific Investigation". Book by William Ian Beardmore Beveridge, p. 65, 1950.

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• 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.

  Emily Bronte

  Hate, Voice, Hard Life

  Emily Bronte (2014). “Wuthering Heights - With Audio”, p.47, Oxford University Press

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• This was the point of our lives when we found pills, uppers. That's the only way we could continue playing for so long. They were called Preludin, and you could buy them over the counter. We never thought we were doing anything wrong, but we'd get really wired and go on for days. So with beer and Preludin, that's how we survived.

  Ringo Starr

  Beer, Long, Drug

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

  Willie Lanier

  Football, Play, Nfl

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• The turn of the century was the lowest point for the devastation of Indian culture by disease and persecution, and it's a wonder to me that they survived it and have not only maintained their identity, but are actually growing stronger in some ways. The situation is still very bad, especially in certain geographical areas, but there are more Indians going to school, more Indians becoming professional people, more Indians assuming full responsibility in our society. We have a long way to go, but we're making great strides.

  N. Scott Momaday

  School, Responsibility, Growing Stronger

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• It began when I was so ill that there was a good chance of dying. I promised myself that if I survived I would never again pander to a magazine's requests or follow the ideas of art directors. I would only make images which were personal, which arose out of my own life.

  Helmut Newton

  Photography, Art, Ideas

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

  Kelsey Grammer

  Grief, Loss, Self

  "Kelsey Grammer: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2009.

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• 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?

  E. O. Wilson

  Looks, Environment, Masterpiece

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• Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great and fine discoveries. We are dazzled by the material progress that Western science has made. Ancient India has survived because Hinduism was not developed along material but spiritual lines.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Eye, Discovery

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• 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.

  Halle Berry

  Feelings, Trying, Hardship

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• Self Esteem::"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. I knew a man of simple habits and earnest character who never put out his hands nor opened his lips to court the public, and having survived several rotten reputations of younger men, honor came at last and sat down with him upon his private bench from which he had never stirred."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Esteem, Character, Simple

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• I've learned to rely on the strength I inherited from all those who came before me-the grandmothers, sisters, aunts, and brothers who were tested with unimaginable hardships and still survived. 'I go forth alone, and stand as ten thousand,' Maya Angelou proclaimed in her poem 'Our Grandmothers.' When I move through the world, I bring all my history with me-all the people who paved the way for me are part of who I am.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspiring, Brother, Moving

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.48, Macmillan

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

  Donna Freitas

  Life, Girl, Littles

  Donna Freitas (2011). “The Survival Kit”, p.344, Macmillan

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• I wanted it not to be true. I wanted it not to be her plane. I wanted it - I wanted, if it was her plane, to have somehow survived because she was in the back of the airplane. But we know that doesn't happen, not with those sorts of things.

  Ted Olson

  Airplane, Planes, Being True

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• Every day when everybody would have lunch I would do TM [Transcendental Meditation] and then I would eat while I was working because I had missed lunch but that is how I survived the 9 years [of Seinfeld], it was that 20 minutes in the middle of the day would save me.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Years, Lunch, Meditation

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

  Michael Rooker

  Needs, Apocalypse

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• I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived.

  Sebastian Junger

  Acceptance, Men, Thinking

  "A Few Good Men". Interview with Adam Weinstein, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2010.

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• 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.

  Hillary Clinton

  Ebb And Flow, Natural, I Can

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• This crazy little party girl who loves to enjoy life actually has a purpose. So, that's really the core of why I've survived so many years and I can go and I can fall down and I can get back up. Why? Because I know why I'm here. That's the question that a lot of people need to answer when they do fall is, 'Why am I here?' If you can answer that question, you'll be able to dust yourself off and shine like a phoenix out of ashes.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Girl, Crazy, Party

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

  Leon Brown

  Pain, Worry, Negative

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

  Elie Wiesel

  Helping Others, Survival, Helping

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. November 2000.

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

  Paul Newman

  Careers, Smoking, Waking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest. The experience of working there is something of a battleground, a great one, but complicated. I think there's a deep connection for having survived that workplace.

  Ana Gasteyer

  Thinking, Connections, Actresses

  "‘Suburgatory’ Star Ana Gasteyer Talks New Show And ‘SNL’ Past". Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2012.

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