Survivor Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• 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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• The Mormons even baptized Anne Frank. It took Ernest Michel, then chairman of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, three years to get Mormons to agree to stop proxy-baptizing Holocaust victims.

  Maureen Dowd

  Years, Holocaust, Religion

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• We do not invest in victims, we invest in survivors.

  Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

  Victim

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• I want to celebrate these elms which have been spared by the plague, these survivors of a once flourishing tribe commemorated by all the Elm Streets in America. But to celebrate them is to be silent about the people who sit and sleep underneath them, the homeless poor who are hauled away by the city like trash, except it has no place to dump them. To speak of one thing is to suppress another.

  Lisel Mueller

  Sleep, Cities, America

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• In Washington, officials from the National Rifle Association met with a group of high school students. There were no survivors.

  Tina Fey

  Funny, School, Humor

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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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• Boxers are resilitant guys. We know how to take of a big punch that hits us, we know how to survive. Oscar is a survivor, he's gonna be back bigger and stronger.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Motivation, Guy, Stronger

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• After eighty, there are no enemies, only survivors.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Survival, Enemy, Eighty

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• Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.

  Annie Dillard

  Survival, Emergencies, Kind

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.9, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Every woman who writes is a survivor.

  Tillie Olsen

  Writing, Survival

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• The word 'survivor' carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women. It also contains a humbling light of recognition that compels many to do whatever they can to help reinforce the efforts of those who might be 'at risk' of not just giving up on their dreams, but of giving up on their continued existence.

  Aberjhani

  Dream, Giving Up, Men

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• Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Brutality, Violence, Bitterness

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story”, p.225, Beacon Press

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• Manhattan was a no-man's land, empty, an unofficial demilitarized zone between Partials and the human survivors. No one was supposed to be here, not because it was forbidden but because it was dangerous. If something happened to you out here, either side could get you, and neither side could protect you.

  Dan Wells

  Men, Land, Manhattan

  Dan Wells (2013). “Fragments (Partials, Book 2)”, p.32, HarperCollins UK

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