Survivor Quotes - Page 13

• There's a reason survivors choose not to go to the police, and that's because they're treated as the criminals. The rapists are innocent until proven guilty, but survivors are guilty until proven innocent - at least in the eyes of the police.

  Emma Sulkowicz

  Eye, Class, Justice

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• Suicide is a whispered word, inappropriate for polite company. Family and friends often pretend they do not hear the word's dread sound even when it is uttered. For suicide is a taboo subject that stigmatizes not only the victim but the survivors as well.

  Earl A Grollman

  Suicide, Family And Friends, Sound

  Earl A. Grollman (1988). “Suicide: Prevention, Intervention, Postvention”, p.1, Beacon Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• After the survivor of the Spanish conquest has told his life's story he is convicted by the Inquisition: He posted no brief in defense or mitigation of his offenses, and when he was most solemnly advised by the Court President of the dire consequences he faced if found guilty, Juan Damasceno volunteered only one comment: "It will mean I do not go to the Christian heaven?" He was told that that would indeed be the worst of his punishments: that he would most assuredly not go to Heaven. At which, his smile sent a thrill of horror through every soul of the Court.

  Gary Jennings

  Christian, Mean, Punishment

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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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• 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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• You're looking, sir, at a very dull survivor of a very gaudy life. Crippled, paralyzed in both legs. Very little I can eat, and my sleep is so near waking that it's hardly worth the name. I seem to exist largely on heat, like a newborn spider.

  William Faulkner

  Sleep, Names, Legs

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• Working with women survivors of war has taught me that we need to listen to women's perspectives on war in order to understand how to effectively rebuild a country, a community and a family.

  Zainab Salbi

  Country, War, Order

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Women are not just victims; they are survivors and leaders on the community-level backlines of peace and stability.

  Zainab Salbi

  Community, Leader, Levels

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Could the best and kindest of us who depart from the earth have an opportunity of revisiting it, I suppose he or she (assuming that any Vanity Fair feelings subsist in the sphere whither we are bound) would have a pang of mortification at finding how soon our survivors were consoled.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Opportunity, Vanity, Feelings

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1848). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.256

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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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• There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Victory, Massacres, Ifs

  "Ethan of Athos". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1986.

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

  Drew Barrymore

  Girl, Advice, Come Up

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• 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.

  Albert Brooks

  Feet, Would Be, Want

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• 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.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Race, Quality, Spirit

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• As the generation of Holocaust survivors and liberators dwindles, the torch of remembrance, of bearing witness, and of education must continue forward.

  Dan Gillerman

  Remembrance, Holocaust, Torches

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• Survivor has been such a hit, and out of that have come so many interesting stories from people that we don't see on the big screen. We have helped make them incredible celebrities.

  Mary Hart

  People, Interesting, Stories

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