Survived Quotes
486 quotes by 402 authors
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My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don't be greedy, work…
— David Suzuki
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What I do know is that wondering why you survived don't help you survive.
— Jeannette Walls
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My parents came to this country after World War II, Jews from Czechoslovakia who had survived Auschwitz and Dachau. They settled with my sister in…
— Julie Salamon
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Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?
— Khalil Gibran
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
— Woodrow Wilson
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It is an old cliche to say that the future is in the hands of the young. This is no longer true. The quality of…
— Prince Philip
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Most people who have survived abuse have great strength.
— John Bradshaw
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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk…
— Will Rogers
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Our principles were revolutionary. We began as a small, weak republic. But we survived. Our example inspired others, imperfectly at times, but it inspired them…
— Ronald Reagan
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It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it…
— Anne Carson
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I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last…
— Ishmael Beah
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Whenever I speak at the United Nations, UNICEF or elsewhere to raise awareness of the continual and rampant recruitment of children in wars around the…
— Ishmael Beah
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When I was in the NFL, whenever I got cut from a team I would do paintings of the players, they would pay me $4,000…
— Terry Crews
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I'm not the only one; most people's mothers are the most influential person in their life. But my mother survived the camps, and she was…
— Diane von Furstenberg
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I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked…
— Lady Gaga
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And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife,…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.
— Dave Grohl
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The creative adult is the child who has survived.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
— Bette Davis
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Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is…
— Stockwell Day
Who Wrote These Survived Quotes
402 authors contributed a total of 486 Survived Quotes, led by these top contributors: