Survivor Quotes - Page 4

There is no shame in being a survivor of sexual violence. The shame is on the aggressor.

You can get used to anything - haven't I already said that? Isn't that what all survivors say?

If history is a record of survivors, Poetry shelters other voices.

I consider myself a survivor more than anything else.

My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying.

I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.

In brief, we who write are all in the same boat, as if we are survivors of torpedoes, and we hope to reach the shores of thought with strength for more activity.

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.

Me: Well, you see, I, uh, I'm a cancer survivor. Person #1: And how's that working out for you? Me: Well, you see, I, uh, used to have leukemia. Person #2: Dude, how come you're not, like, BALD? Me: Well, you see, I, uh, I had acute lymphocytic lymphoma when I was five. Person #3: Whoa. THAT must'a sucked. I once had my tonsils out.

Death fixes forever the relation existing between the departed spirit and the survivors upon earth.

I feel good about the work I do on Survivor and am proud of my contribution.

People who live through transplants or disasters like Sept. 11 are survivors.

And I'll tell you, honestly, folks that I talk to, the 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in America, that I am one of, understand that we're done with insurance companies dropping us or denying us coverage because of - because we have a preexisting condition.

I like to see people who are survivors wearing my shoes. I am fascinated by people who can bounce back.

Hi, I'm Bill. I'm a birth survivor.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.

The last thing I want to be known as is 'The Girl Who Got Raped'. The big turn around you make in your head is from victim to survivor.

I can almost hear Haymitch groaning as I team up with this wispy child. But I want her. Because she's a survivor, and I trust her, and why not admit it? She reminds me of Prim.

I don't want to be the only survivor on the island with no smoke.

Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors.

It occurred to me that if I did not handle the crash correctly, there would be no survivors.

We are survivors from the moment of diagnosis.

I am a survivor and not a victim. Life isn't perfect. When you get a knock, you have to get up, dust yourself down and get on with it.

When Oscar Niemeyer died on December 5, 2012, ten days before his 105th birthday, he was universally regarded as the very last of the twentieth century's major architectural masters, an astonishing survivor whose most famous accomplishment, Brasilia, was the climactic episode of utopian High Modern urbanism.