Survived Quotes

486 quotes by 416 authors

Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that… — David Attenborough
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies. — Dean Acheson
As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes… — Diane Ackerman
I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was… — Ben Barnes
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them. — Bono
Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the… — Barbara Boxer
We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have… — Richard Branson
I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on… — Jeff Bridges
I had a great '70s. I survived it, and that's always good news. — Jeff Bridges
The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation. — James Buchan
After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived and ultimately flourished. — Graydon Carter
Korean children get a lot of fuss made over them, I guess because life was tough in the old country, and it was a big… — Margaret Cho
If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long. — Noam Chomsky
I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I'm just grateful that I survived. But the music got very… — Eric Clapton
When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not… — Maya Angelou
There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I also survived circumcision, a barbaric practice designed to remind you as early as possible that your genitals are not your own. — George Carlin
It has become accepted doctrine that we must attempt to study the whole man. Actually we cannot study even a whole tree or a whole… — Gardner Murphy
How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend? — Wallace Stevens
Picture me inside the misery of poverty, no man alive has ever witnessed struggles ive survived, praying hard for better days promised to hold on… — Tupac Shakur

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