Best Survivors Quotations
153 Survivors quotes by 137 unique authors
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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…
— Martha Gellhorn
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As the generation of Holocaust survivors and liberators dwindles, the torch of remembrance, of bearing witness, and of education must continue forward.
— Dan Gillerman
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The fittest survive. What is meant by the fittest? Not the strongest; not the cleverest - weakness and stupidity everywhere survive. There is no way…
— Charles Fort
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In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods, oil spills and radioactive fallout cause massive death of people, pigs, bats and birds. These disasters also impact…
— Paul Stamets
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Death fixes forever the relation existing between the departed spirit and the survivors upon earth.
— John Quincy Adams
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Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
— Frank Gifford
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days…
— Bear Grylls
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The idea of 'Voice of Witness' is to let survivors and witnesses of human-rights abuses tell their story at length. It started with a course…
— Dave Eggers
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I was only a gun captain on the battleship Alabama for 34 months. People have called me a hero for that, but I'll tell you…
— Bob Feller
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I think that women are powerful and they're multifaceted and they're survivors; they don't have to depend on a man to do the things they…
— Rashida Jones
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I like to see people who are survivors wearing my shoes. I am fascinated by people who can bounce back.
— Christian Louboutin
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The Holocaust survivors are among the most inspiring people I have had the privilege to meet.
— Jonathan Sacks
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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…
— Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back…
— Steven Spielberg
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My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books…
— Ellen Tauscher
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Both of our daughters, Debbie and Bonnie, are also cancer survivors.
— David Wilkerson
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Before I started chemotherapy treatments, I wrote down the best advice from doctors, family, friends, books, and survivors and created an 'Owner's Manual' to help…
— Regina Brett
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Survivors can't always choose their methods.
— Patricia Briggs
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Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are…
— John le Carre
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We need be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of survivors, thoughts of so much…
— Charles Dickens
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And my haunting instinct that somehow good was not merely a tool to be used, but a relic to be guarded, like the goods from…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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You can get used to anything - haven't I already said that? Isn't that what all survivors say?
— Yann Martel
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...as if someone had thrown a hand grenade into the middle of a teddy bear orgy and the only survivors had had their fur blown…
— Christopher Moore
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The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature’s imperfect but…
— Robert Fulghum
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