Quotes About A Survivor

#1. There always had to be a survivor. Maybe this simply spoke to the optimism of the men writing those screenplays; even with an uncomfortable sci fi plot they had to subconsciously comfort themselves by thinking that at least a hundred people would survive.
Someone has to survive

Chris Dietzel

#2. You run away a lot," said one of the voices. "That is good. You are a survivor." "Survivor? I've nearly been killed dozens of times!" "Exactly.

Terry Pratchett

#3. He was a survivor, like me

Megan Shepherd

#4. I'm a survivor, I said. But I didn't think that claim would carry much weight in an obituary.

Tobias Wolff

#5. She turned back to the reporter, holding out the microphone. I'm not an expert, I'm a survivor. I hope you can learn how to be one yourself.

Rose Wynters

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

Alice Walker

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

Jodi Picoult

#8. I am a survivor. I live beyond the wall. I give shelter to those that need it. I am not chosen but I choose to live.

Lauren Nicolle Taylor

#9. Rational optimism is required of anyone who hopes to be a survivor,

Dean Koontz

#10. Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.

Annie Dillard

#11. I'm a survivor, at least that's what everyone tells me.

Courtney Love

#12. Who... who are you?"
"I am what you will soon be. I am a survivor.

Brandon Sanderson

#13. When you choose to act on your problems, you cease to be a victim of circumstance and become a force of change; that's when you transition to not only being a survivor, but to being a leader or hero too, and an inspiration to those still in the victim's mindset.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#14. People say that scars are the sign of victory; the winning marks against what broke them. But how about the wound that never heals? What would that make you? A winner, a loser, a survivor?

E. Mellyberry

#15. Every woman who writes is a survivor.

Tillie Olsen

#16. The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can't be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American.

Barry Eisler

#17. I have truly moved beyond my victimization. I do not think of myself as a victim. I don't think of myself as a survivor. I think of myself as someone who through forgiveness has healed her soul and body and moved on to help other people.

Stephanie Davis

#18. Everybody who is alive is a survivor, and everybody who is dead isn't," I said."So everybody alive must have the Survivor's Syndrome. It's that or death. I am so damn sick of people telling me proudly that they are survivors!

Kurt Vonnegut

#19. Men want a girl who looks like a boy. They want to protect her but she must be a survivor. And she must come ... like a train ... but with ... elegance.

Patrick Marber

#20. I don't feel like a survivor. I feel left behind.

Helen Bevington

#21. It would be a mind-boggling endeavor to try to identify each individual who claims to have been a survivor of victimization during this period of 24 years.

Jose Ramos-Horta

#22. Incarcerating people for their [drug] consumption choices has the consistency of arresting a survivor of suicide for attempted murder .

Ilana Mercer

#23. Like I said - I wasn't stupid. Rough around the edges maybe, definitely a little perverted at times, but never stupid. I was a survivor. I'd damn well survive this.

Elle Jasper

#24. Didn't need anyone. Never had. Because she was a survivor. Uh-huh. That's right.

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#25. Boxers are resilitant guys. We know how to take of a big punch that hits us, we know how to survive. Oscar is a survivor, he's gonna be back bigger and stronger.

Bernard Hopkins

#26. And the most important lesson I learned is that I'm not a victim - I'm a survivor.

Elle Kennedy

#27. I'm a survivor in a business that constantly rejects you.

Dick Clark

#28. If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.

Martha Reeves

#29. I've seen a lot in my life. My dad was pretty gnarly but I loved him and I wouldn't change it for the world. My mom's a survivor.

Taryn Manning

#30. What do you know about being a victim?" "That it's perceptional," I said. "You can either live as a victim or become a survivor. The choice is yours, and it will change your life in ways you can't imagine.

Dannika Dark

#31. Someone once asked me how I hold my head up so high after all I have been through. I said it's because no matter what, I am a survivor NOT a victim.

Patricia Buckley

#32. Don't call me crazy.I'm a survivor. I do what I have to do to survive.

Stieg Larsson

#33. I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
I was a survivor, and I was strong.
I would not be weak, or helpless again
I would not, could not be broken. Tamed.

Sarah J. Maas

#34. This is a physical thing that is fixable. I know, I'm a survivor. Believe me, there was no way I thought I could survive. There are answers out there that need to be found.

Marie Osmond

#35. I love you because you have this fire in you that you don't even recognise, but I do. You're strong and you're a survivor.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#36. They make you powerful. Each line is a road traveled, an experience you had, whether it was good or bad. Each mark is proof of pain in the past, not the present. You are a survivor, you are a warrior.

T.M. Frazier

#37. I think my song that reminds me of Mama is "I'm A Survivor" because she is one.

Reba McEntire

#38. When I was growing up, Brandy was TV star, reality star, a pop star, a Cover girl, Grammy winner, had her own Brandy doll, and was the first African American to play Disney princess Cinderella. Most importantly, she is a survivor. Many only judge and remember a person's most recent failure.

Niecy Nash

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

Patti Smith

#40. The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.

Bob Feller

#41. Imagine a survivor of a failed civilization with only a tattered book on aromatherapy for guidance in arresting a cholera epidemic. Yet, such a book would more likely be found amid the debris than a comprehensible medical text.

James Lovelock

#42. She's a survivor, that one.

Suzanne Collins

#43. 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.

Suzanne Collins

#44. My real mother is a survivor, very strong and respected by the people who know her, but our relationship is not easy - but then, it was never going to be.

Lemn Sissay

#45. Dad: "You're a survivor yourself, then?" Augustus: "I am. I didn't cut this fella off for the sheer unadulterated pleasure of it, although it is an excellent weight-loss strategy. Legs are heavy!" Dad:

John Green

#46. I feel so fortunate and grateful to be a survivor of breast cancer. I see it as a gift.

Olivia Newton-John

#47. Ava Elizabeth Baker you make yourself a survivor, not a victim. Become an exception and not a rule.

Nicole Gulla

#48. The act of self-expression - through writing a journal or letters - often enables a survivor to distance himself from his fears.

Nathaniel Philbrick

#49. As you know, in the past several years, month after month, radio has increased its revenues - some of it even coming from Dot-Com advertisers. So, radio is a survivor.

Casey Kasem

#50. I am someone who always gets up again, even if there are setbacks. I have a survivor instinct. I'm not sure where it comes from, but probably from all the little things that make you into who you are.

Heidi Klum

#51. I don't want a knight in shining armor.
I don't want a knight in scuffed armor.
I want his helmet to have dents. I want my knight to be real, and dark and savage. I want my knight to be a survivor. Someone who's been tested and got through his trails. Not some pussy in gleaming metal.

Belle Aurora

#52. My niece was a sexual-assault victim. My sister is a survivor of domestic violence. We have more shelters for animals than for battered women. That's not the message we should be sending.

Hilda Solis

#53. He felt a strange pang. It was, perhaps, the fault of old Mr Jonathan, speaking of Juliet ... No Juliet here - unless perhaps one could imagine Juliet a survivor - living on, deprived of Romeo ... Was it not an essential part of Juliet's make-up that that she should die young?

Agatha Christie

#54. Cletus takes a sizeable gulp from the bottle, then points at Arden. You'd learn something from that one, boy. She's a hard worker. A survivor. Gets things done. That girl doesn't know it, but she's going places in life.

Anna Banks

#55. I try to destroy taboo in fashion-which is something I learned as a kid. I come from the street, and you have to be a survivor,

Riccardo Tisci

#56. Do you know what it means to be a survivor? It means that not only do you have to live through things, you have to live with them as well. The second part is much harder and sometimes it takes the rest of your life to learn how to do it. But at least you have the rest of your life ...

Josephine Angelini

#57. How can you make light of it? I says.
What should I do? She says. Cry fer the rest of my life? Molly of the Many Sorrows? ... You got battle scars. This is mine, she says. You know what it tells me? I'm a survivor.

Moira Young

#58. Never trust a survivor until you know how they survived.

Kurt Vonnegut

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

Angelina Jolie

#60. What they saw was a hero baby. That's what you are. A survivor. A strong woman. Beautiful... Funny as hell... Sexy... Sweet...

Lucian Bane

#61. I am a survivor. But I am not unique of the people that survived the great late war. We all have our stories to tell. But for most of us the hardened corners have soften with the passage of time.

Nancy B. Brewer

#62. Then Walter died as he lived, he told his mate. A hero, a soldier, and a survivor who chose to protect what was precious to him. I don't think, if you could ask him, that he would have any regrets.

Patricia Briggs

#63. Do not be ashamed of your past. Learn from those experiences and move forward in your life. Teach others of the possibilities of change & living victoriously. You are a survivor.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#64. You'll beat this. I know it doesn't feel like it, but you will. You're a survivor."
"I don't want to survive it."
"I know that, too," Nell had said. "And it's fair enough. But sometimes we don't have a choice ...

Kate Morton

#65. After all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood?

Nicole Krauss

#66. You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It's a mindset.

Dave Pelzer

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

Elizabeth Edwards

#68. I am that 'everyman' in that I have made every mistake you can make in your career and in your personal life. But I am a survivor.

Joe Piscopo

#69. I am like a survivor
of the flood
walking through the streets
drenched with
God
surprised that all of the
drowned victims
are still walking and talking

Saul Williams

#70. When you choose to be a competitor you choose to be a survivor. When you choose to compete, you make the conscious decision to find out what your real limits are, not just what you think they are.

Pat Summitt

#71. All unemployed Jews are sent to labour camps in the countryside. A survivor remembered that "It was like a Russian winter. The snow lay metres deep on the tracks and froze over. To be there made one feel as though one was overwintering in Nova Zemlya."27

Geert Mak

#72. WHE YOU FOCUS ON HEALING AND OVERCOME A TRAGEDY OR CHANGE IN YOUR LIFE, YOU BECOME A SURVIVOR, NOT A VICTIM ANYMORE.

Linda Alfiori

#73. You know what you are?" she said. "You're a survivor who has nothing to live for.

Adam Johnson

#74. Be a Survivor, Not a Victim

J.L. Higgs

#75. A survivor reassesses odds continually and doesn't disrespect them.

Barry Eisler

#76. Dressed as a man, her horse unencumbered by anything but the bare necessities, she had the look of a survivor, a fighter, and he respected the hell our of her for it, especial when she slid the pistol our of one of the saddlebags and aimed it at him.

Alexandra Bracken

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

Geraldine Ferraro

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

Michael C. Hall

#79. As a survivor of Hurricane Katrina, I understood all too well the despair my colleagues - Republican and Democrat alike - were feeling as Hurricane Sandy ravaged their communities.

Cedric Richmond

#80. I am a survivor. I am like a cockroach, you just can't get rid of me.

Madonna Ciccone

#81. Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.

Eddie Bracken

#82. I'm an 18-years thriver, I call myself, not a survivor, because I feel like I'm in thriving my life even better than I ever have, and I want to encourage other women that are going through this journey that here I am.

Olivia Newton-John

#83. Both of my grandmothers were diagnosed with breast cancer - one is a survivor and one passed away.

Jessica Simpson

#84. It's all a matter of perspective. Here's mine: I've been called a lot of things, but what I really am is a survivor - and while there are more than a few stupid Sirens, there are zero stupid survivors.

Kami Garcia

#85. I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore.

Carrie Fisher

#86. I have suffered pains and torture of all natures. I have heard many say, "I am a survivor." I am not in a boat in a sea of torture awaiting to be rescued. I am a Conqueror, I am a Victor ...
I am one with myself.
I AM FREE!

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#87. A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.

Natalie Wood

#88. Forget about surviving 40 years in the music business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie has been a struggle-and-a-half, I want to tell you. I stand here as a survivor, I want you to know, for all the parents out there.

Lionel Richie

#89. I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.

Uzo Aduba

#90. I'm a survivor. And I say this with so much pride I could burst into a million tiny pieces at your feet.

Trish Kaye Lleone

#91. Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life

Lynette Gould

#92. Someone once said "The only thing that will be left after a nuclear holocaust is Cher and cockroaches." I think that's funny, because, you know, I am a survivor. If I am anything, that's what I am.

Cher

#93. I'm a survivalist and a survivor.

Creed Bratton

#94. All of us need just one good accomplishment in order to get by. Obviously he can't spend the rest of his life climbing trees, but it's the agility and enterprise involved in the act that will make him a survivor. Enough

Ruskin Bond

#95. I'm not a victim. I'm not a survivor. I'm a fighter.

JenniferElizabeth Austin

#96. In the uneven balance of life, I'd experienced love and loss. The loss challenged me to be strong, but it was the love that supported me when I was weak. I was a survivor.

Rebecca Donovan

#97. I'm a survivor of life. I try to give the glory to God and appreciate what's happening to me.

Mike Epps

#98. I think I'm a survivor. I could have suffered at least 100 professional deaths. I could come up with a list of the 100 times I've come closest to death, from having pneumonia as a child to car crashes.

Craig Venter

#99. Young girls come up to me all the time to ask for advice. They see me as a survivor.

Drew Barrymore

#100. A scar is a sign of strength ... the sign of a survivor.

Laurie Halse Anderson