Survivor Quotes · Page 7

“I refuse to be anyone’s survivor because I prefer to think of myself as a winner.”

— Gabourey Sidibe

The best life in the world. 'Survivor' was nothing compared to what I did, and it's just that way.

— Rudy Boesch

I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible.

— Geraldine Ferraro

First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor.

— Patti Smith

What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I'm actually a survivor of throat cancer so I'm very, very careful with my voice.

— Michael Buffer

“Milena's eyes seemed to go hot and heavy. Praise made her heartsick; she was so unused to it, and needed it so…

— Geoff Ryman

This is a job and Survivor is a game show. So, this is something to take seriously and work really hard at.

— Colleen Haskell

I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I…

— Albert Brooks

My kids - even though it's a family business - they don't even know what day or time 'Survivor' is even on.…

— Mark Burnett

I had always wanted to run my own show and focus solely on the writing, and that's what 'Survivor's Remorse' has been…

— Mike O'Malley

children may need challenges and high-risk conditions in order to develop the self-generated immunity to trauma that characterizes survivors. To be tested…

— Gail Sheehy

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

We have stay-in date nights where we make a plan to watch certain TV shows together. 'Survivor,' for example, is our favorite…

— Alison Sweeney

I didnt like the Survivor shows because of the mean-spirited aspect, and women certainly were part of whatever conflict they would create.

— Sharon Lawrence

“Our existence is based on the variety of life that we have experienced. Yet, in the end when the reality of identity…

— Patricia Dsouza

With the children of Holocaust survivors, there is always a very close relationship. You grow with the sense that you are parenting…

— Amira Hass

The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also…

— Godfried Danneels

Sometimes, Ms. Lane," he said, "one must break with one's past to embrace one's future. It is never an easy thing to…

— Karen Marie Moning

I asked my grandmother how a Hungarian Jewish person can experience being Jewish. My grandmother answered was the only choice was to…

— Csanad Szegedi

“The Rochester group [of VOTF], however, was met with some concern as they found it hard to believe my account as it…

— Charles L. Bailey Jr

The 'enduring theme' [in fiction] of male competition and female competition for the hero/survivor has taken us from the fittest surviving to…

— Warren Farrell

“Our world is not safe. It is a toxic swamp populated by predators and parasites. The odds are stacked against us from…

— J.K. Franko

I do feel like I'm a survivor because the music industry is still a boys' club. I really respect all the women…

— Nelly Furtado

I'm a survivor. I did whatever I had to to put food in my belly. For a while, stealing fed me.

— Mike Perry

“She was a beautiful dreamer who had survived the ugliest nightmares.”

— Mishi McCoy

“The truth is misrepresented, distorted, altered, tampered and changed in the mind of the child.”

— Patricia Dsouza

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

— Daniel Barenboim

Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation is for cowards.

— Seal

How can you be a survivor, when you can't even remember the war?

— Jodi Picoult

“The fittest person survives! The fighting man succeeds! He who Fights to Fit, will Survive to Succeed!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“[...] survivors like that, well, they understood better than anyone how to get back on their feet.”

— Rachel Barenbaum

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

— Zainab Salbi

“Being highly sensitive does not at all rule out being, in your own way, a tenacious survivor.”

— Elaine N. Aron

We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

— Elizabeth Taylor

Yes, I've been very preoccupied with the survivor all through my work.

— Robert Jay Lifton

Survivors are so often re-victimized by a system that demands they prove their purity and innocence.

— Lena Dunham

You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one.

— Elizabeth Edwards

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

— Yann Martel