Survivor Quotes - Page 12

• This then, I thought, as I looked round about me, is the representation of history. It requires a falsification of perspective. We, the survivors, see everything from above, see everything at once, and still we do not know how it was.

  W. G. Sebald

  Perspective, Falsification, Stills

  W. G. Sebald (2016). “The Rings of Saturn”, p.70, New Directions Publishing

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

  Marissa Meyer

  Labels, Looks, Rotting

  Marissa Meyer (2012). “Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles Book 1)”, p.40, Penguin UK

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• We are fighters and survivors. We are here. We are alive and breathing, living and loving, birthing and caring, working and earning. The sky is above us. The earth is below us. We can never be poor. ~ NanaAnna

  Sister Souljah

  Caring, Sky, Breathing

  Sister Souljah (2014). “A Deeper Love Inside: The Porsche Santiaga Story”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't you know I”m still standing better than I ever did.  Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid.  I'm still standing after all this time.

  Elton John

  Kids, Feelings, Littles

  Song: I'm Still Standing Elton John Bernie Taupin, Album: Rocket Man

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• Imagine a survivor of a failed civilization with only a tattered book on aromatherapy for guidance in arresting a cholera epidemic. Yet, such a book would more likely be found amid the debris than a comprehensible medical text.

  James Lovelock

  Book, Science, Epidemics

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• I'm a survivor in a business that constantly rejects you.

  Dick Clark

  Rejects You, Music Business, Rejects

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• The real survivors are the Earth inhabitants that have lived millions of years without consuming their ecological capital, the base from which all abundance flows.

  Janine Benyus

  Nature, Real, Animal

  Janine M. Benyus (2009). “Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• The Church will pray to God for the dead. The survivor has honour and glory.

  Alexander Suvorov

  War, Church, Praying

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• I don't mind being called tough, since I find in this racket it's the tough guys who lead the survivors.

  Curtis LeMay

  Military, Guy, Mind

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• If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?

  Scott Pelley

  Holocaust, Interviews, Energy

  "Hellfire and Heresy: Global Warming Hotheads Inflamed About Skeptical Challengers". www.forbes.com. March 23, 2006.

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• Outwit, outlast, outplay. It's the tagline for the television show Survivor and it's damn near what presidenting is like, too.

  George W. Bush

  Television, Taglines, Damn

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• Bury you with Satan, to hell then I bury ya. I'm like Lucifer the unforgiven, cast out of heaven, I much rather rule in hell than be a servant. A hell on earth survivor means you better be a earner.

  Necro

  Mean, Heaven, Earth

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• When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Order, Confusion, Retreat

  Rita Mae Brown (2017). “Six of One”, p.100, Bantam

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• Most days I feel like the sole survivor of a shipwreck, rowing my paddleboat across a sea of people on waves made of an infinite array of hands and crests that reveal anonymous faces. On a good day, the clouds part to alight on-lo and behold-an island! I step ashore, only find that it too is made of people, mangled bodies somehow still alive. They grab at my feet, pulling me under like quicksand. The last thing I see before suffocating is the sky, a billion eyes staring down, blinking in undulating electric ripples. The cold rain I feel on my cheeks is the tears of the people.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Rain, Good Day, Eye

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• Forget about surviving 40 years in the music business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie has been a struggle-and-a-half, I want to tell you. I stand here as a survivor, I want you to know, for all the parents out there.

  Lionel Richie

  Struggle, Years, Parent

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• I felt hopeful for the future because Obama is here. But nothing has changed. It's time for young kids to get serious again and really think about what their four fathers were like. As African-Americans, we are resilient, we are some bad mf-ers, and we are survivors. So get those i-pods out of their ears and become heroes again like the Freedom Riders.

  Lee Daniels

  Father, Hero, Kids

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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

  Daniel Barenboim

  People, Holocaust, Imagine

  "The Germans Are Prisoners of Their Past". Interview with Joachim Kronsbein and Bernhard Zand, www.spiegel.de. June 22, 2012.

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• When I was four or five years old, I heard a lot of stories about the Holocaust because both my parents were survivors. I'm sure that was very important in my life. My father snuck out from under the floorboards to make love to my mother. I can't imagine why they kept me.

  Christian Boltanski

  Mother, Father, Years

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• I'm an 18-years thriver, I call myself, not a survivor, because I feel like I'm in thriving my life even better than I ever have, and I want to encourage other women that are going through this journey that here I am.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Journey, Years, Here I Am

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Here's my proposal, which is based on the TV show Survivor: We put the entire Congress on an island. All the food on this island is locked inside a vault, which can be opened only by an ordinary American taxpayer named Bob. Every day, the congresspersons are given a section of the Tax Code, which they must rewrite so that Bob can understand it. If he can, he lets them eat that day; if he can't, he doesn't.

  Dave Barry

  Islands, Tv Shows, Ordinary

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• As we grow older we think more and more of old persons and of old things and places. As to old persons, it seems as if we never know how much they have to tell until we are old ourselves and they have been gone twenty or thirty years. Once in a while we come upon some survivor of his or her generation that we have overlooked, and feel as if we had recovered one of the lost books of Livy or fished up the golden candlestick from the ooze of the Tiber.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Book, Thinking, Years

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• While von Clausewitz said, 'War is the continuation of policy (politics) by other means,' when considering the welfare of our men and women in uniform, their families, our veterans and survivors, don't let politics drive your decisions.

  Joe Heck

  War, Mean, Men

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• I guess I'm a survivor. There are many of us survivors and any successful woman of my age has somewhat of that in her.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Successful, Age, Successful Women

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I try to make films where the audience forgets the filmmaking and gets engrossed in the story as it unfolds. I don't want them to ever feel bored, or that they're being told what to think, or to feel depressed. I don't like films about victims - I want to celebrate brave survivors like Brenda and the wonderful women in the film.

  Kim Longinotto

  Thinking, Bored, Brave

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Jane Kindred’s THE HOUSE OF ARKHANGEL'SK dazzles with its surreal blending of worlds. Lost angel Anazakia, last survivor of her murdered family, finds herself in the hands of demons with suspect motives, betrayed by her own kind, stranded in the world of Man—21st century St. Petersburg, Russia, to be exact. Weaving startling visuals with compelling characters, Kindred reveals parallels in the two worlds that are ‘neither haphazard chance nor calculated design.’ It’s a dizzying, vibrant read.

  Lynn Flewelling

  Character, Angel, Men

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