Quotes About A Survivor

#1. It was incredibly cheesy set with torches [TV's Survivor] - it looked like the lobby of the Enchanted Tiki Room at Disneyland. And here as some guy pulling names out of a coconut, and I said, 'This is the thing that has made American mass media stop in their tracks?

Tom Hanks

#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. After Survivor, I was driving across country and moving to San Francisco, going to get a job interning at an ad agency. And then they asked me to read for this movie.

Colleen Haskell

#4. Survivor species tend to have huge populations, so they can afford to lose many individuals and still survive as a species. They also tend to be small. If you're small, you need less food - which is great in a situation where famine is everywhere.

Annalee Newitz

#5. Survivor" is not a label you choose for yourself.

Harry Smith

#6. It was no coincidence, that fear could move a person to extremes, just as seamlessly as love. They were the conjoined twins of emotion: If you didn't know what was at stake to lose, you had nothing to fight for.

Jodi Picoult

#7. She wore her scars
as her best attire.
A stunning dress
made of hellfire.

Daniel Saint

#8. With 'Survivor' - I didn't get any sleep, there was no food, we had to boil our water ... plus, it was physically taxing during the day. That's what made it more difficult than three-a-day practices.

Jimmy Johnson

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. So often parents of abused children feel helpless. When a child falls, and scrapes her knees parents can erase the hurt by kissing it and putting a Band-Aid on it, but not so with the pain of sexual abuse.

Erin Merryn

#12. You may experience waves of disbelief after each memory you retrieve. Whether as a phase or waves, the disbelief is usually accompanied by massive self-hate and guilt. 'How can I even think such a thing? I must really be warped,' you tell yourself.

Renee Fredrickson

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

Courtney Love

#14. Death ends a life, but it does not end a relationship, which struggles on in the survivor's mind toward some final resolution, some clear meaning, which it perhaps never finds.

Robert Anderson

#15. 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

#16. I too entered the Lager as a nonbeliever, and as a nonbeliever I was liberated and have lived to this day.

Primo Levi

#17. A true survivor is someone who, after 12+ years of being schooled, remains independent in their thinking.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#18. I'm a leukemia survivor, and I recall during my darkest days in the hospital when my friends would come to see me, especially the male friends - they had certain mortality issues with their visit.

Lew Temple

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 'The Lucky One' features a young concentration camp survivor named Peter Rashkin - who's about the age my dad was when he started at CBS - working at the Oyster Bar, trying to acclimate to his new country and outrun the memories of the daily he left behind.

Jenna Blum

#23. I am a breast cancer survivor. I was intrigued to learn how many people prefer to talk to someone if they are familiar with their face, like an actor or a politician. So, I began traveling around the country and doing speeches.

Diahann Carroll

#24. 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

#25. A broken person understands she needs rescue, and she depends on God to resurrect and deliver. And she also understands that even if God chooses not to deliver, His ways are higher and more amazing then what we can fathom.

Mary E. DeMuth

#26. I look upon the gift of my life as a wondrous journey.

Maureen Brady

#27. I have to find a place to hide
An island in the sea
Surrounded by a racing tide
Where I can live with me

Laurie Matthew

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

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

Patti Smith

#34. 'Castaways' was a play on what if a reality show like 'Survivor' was unknowingly set on an island inhabited by a sub-human race of creatures? Readers have often asked me to consider turning the short story into a full-length novel. So I did.

Brian Keene

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

Suzanne Collins

#36. It is hard being a football loather, a football unfan. I sometimes feel as lonely as the sole survivor in the last reel of a Zombie film, as, one by one, old friends reveal themselves, with their glassy stares and outstretched arms, to have succumbed to the lure.

Craig Brown

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

Colleen Haskell

#38. 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

#39. I think the last reality show I watched was the first 'Survivor'. That was a long time ago.

David Henrie

#40. 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

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

Olivia Newton-John

#42. To this day, kryptonite functions in the Superman mythos as the physical manifestation of both survivor's guilt and a particularly toxic kind of nostalgia, a reminder that when we dwell on what we've lost, we can kill what we have.

Glen Weldon

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. It wasn't the first reality show, but 'Survivor' was the first big network hit, and I'm proud to have played a part in that history as the winner of season six, 'Survivor: Amazon.'

Jenna Morasca

#46. The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the Tour de France and cancer, I would choose cancer. Odd as it sounds, I would rather have the title of cancer survivor than winner of the Tour, because of what it has done for me as a human being, a man, a husband, a son, and a father.

Lance Armstrong

#47. There's more to life than..." Her eyes darted to the shore where Shannon had found a decent place to film them. "Jumping into the sack."
"Not much," he muttered. "There's a lot to be said for a good fuck.

Zoe Forward

#48. 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

#49. Adolescence is a twentieth-century invention most parents approach with dread and look back on with the relief of survivors.

Faye Moskowitz

#50. I have absolutely no objection to growing older. I am a stroke survivor so I am extremely grateful to be ageing - I have nothing but gratitude for the passing years. I am ageing - lucky, lucky me!

Sharon Stone

#51. You should have worn a baby pink t-shirt on which a child sucks his thumb. That would have given you the required juvenile look.

~ Subhangi Tyagi

Kirtida Gautam

#52. We will not die cornered and cowering in the ruins of a dead city.

Rachel L. Schade

#53. A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.

Thomas Mann

#54. Rather than deal with problems in relationships, I've always moved on. That's why I'm one of the very few survivors as a woman, you know.

Yoko Ono

#55. As the show's executive producer, I envisioned something akin to "Gilligan's Island" meets Lord of the Flies meets Ten Little Indians mets "The Real World." "Survivor" marks a return to a core element of adventure: staying alive.

Mark Burnett

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

Elizabeth Edwards

#57. 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

#58. 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

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

Geraldine Ferraro

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

Michael C. Hall

#61. The bar was manned, or should I say womanned by a skeletal heroin chic concentration camp survivor with an elaborate set of tattoos and an incredibly bizarre set of piercings. I swear, if women continue to insist on making their selves this unattractive I'm going to swear off sex permanently.

Randall Moore

#62. I want to be judged by who I am as a person, not by what happened to me. In fact, all the bad things have only contributed to my confidence and sense of self, because I survived them and became a better and stronger person.

Jenna Jameson

#63. I got a lot of criticism for going back on 'Survivor' to play 'Survivor: All Stars.'

Jenna Morasca

#64. 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

#65. 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

#66. 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

#67. 'Hibakusha' is an animated docu-drama that Choz Belen and I are directing, and it will take you through the earliest memories of a Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor named Kaz Suyeishi.

Steve Nguyen

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

Natalie Wood

#69. If you ever see a war," she says, not looking up from her clipboard, "you'll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors.

Patrick Ness

#70. Just as much as the media portray child sexual exploitation as being a 'hidden' crime, then that is no less of a case with child physical abuse.

Stephen Richards

#71. 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

#72. Lovers are like Siamese twins, two bodies with a single soul; but if one dies before the other, the survivor has a corpse to lug around.

Julian Barnes

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

Drew Barrymore

#74. ...there is a particular focus of the problem faced only by men. It arises from our culture providing no room for a man as victim.

Mike Lew

#75. I wasn't going to be the victim. I was going to be a survivor. And I would never let anyone get in the way of my happiness ever again.

M. Clarke

#76. Incest is almost always a devastating experience for
the victim.

Susan Forward

#77. The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College.

Godfried Danneels

#78. I refuse to be a victim. I am a survivor.

Phoenix I James

#79. I am constantly surrounded by a display of natural wonders ... It is beauty surrounded by ugly fear. I write in my log that it's a view of heaven from a seat in hell. (survivor after 53 days at sea)

Laurence Gonzales

#80. Gay guys love women who are tough, who are survivors. They always call me a diva. And I am a survivor; I've pulled through everything and I've not become bitter about it.

Samantha Fox

#81. I feel like I have a Ph.D. in life, I'm a survivor. I've not only survived, I've thrived.

Gennifer Flowers

#82. Never trust a survivor," my father used to warn me, with Vartan Mamigonian in mind, "until you find out what he did to stay alive.

Kurt Vonnegut

#83. Are you able to proclaim that you have been through some things and you survived it? You are a survivor. And if you are a survivor you are not a victim. You have to change the language that you give to yourself and then you have to change the conversation that you give to others.

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

#84. I am a whole person and have the potential to bring together all the different aspects of myself.

Maureen Brady

#85. I guess I'm a survivor. There are many of us survivors and any successful woman of my age has somewhat of that in her.

Helen Gurley Brown

#86. When I played 'Survivor', I sat back many times and marveled that no one had gotten into a real physical altercation. With all the backbiting, lies, and lack of food, a fight didn't sound far off base, considering the strained and fragile emotions.

Jenna Morasca

#87. My grandmother is a Holocaust survivor. Some heroes of mine have long been the Jewish Partisans, these young people who just went into the woods with whatever guns and bombs and what not they could get their hands on, and just would fight Nazis, and try to help people escape.

Margaret D. Klein

#88. Most people I run into say, I haven't missed an episode. Either you like Survivor or you don't, but if you do, you're a loyal viewer.

Jeff Probst

#89. If I walked back into the booth in the year 2025, I don't think it would have changed much. I think baseball would be played and managed pretty much the same as it is today. It's a great survivor.

Ernie Harwell

#90. We normally know we're getting older when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded; unless you're a cancer survivor! Then we love people reminding us!

Chris Geiger

#91. Being an immigrant and staring life over, you learn to be a survivor and how to face your challenges and basically overcome them. And that has been a great skill set that I've developed and has helped me in my career.

Anousheh Ansari

#92. You aren't broken, Will. You are a survivor.

Kristy Love

#93. What a beautiful woman. She moved with grace, she was entirely feminine, and yet, she possessed incredible inner strength. She's a survivor.

Jan Moran

#94. Her wounds brought her a great source of power because they lived in the same place as her heart.

Shannon L. Alder

#95. You are a survivor, and as that unwelcome designation implies, your survival - your emotional survival - will depend on how well you learn to cope with your tragedy. The bad new: Surviving this will be the second worst experience of your life. The good news: The worst is already over.

Jennifer Niven

#96. I am a survivor and not a victim. Life isn't perfect. When you get a knock, you have to get up, dust yourself down and get on with it.

Patsy Kensit

#97. You're looking, sir, at a very dull survivor of a very gaudy life. Crippled, paralyzed in both legs. Very little I can eat, and my sleep is so near waking that it's hardly worth the name. I seem to exist largely on heat, like a newborn spider.

William Faulkner

#98. Yes, 'Black Girl/White Girl' might be described as a 'coming-of-age' novel, at least for the survivor Genna. It is also intended as a comment on race relations in America more generally: we are 'roommates' with one another, but how well do we know one another?

Joyce Carol Oates

#99. A nightmare has taken hold of my body. Lunacy has dug its way inside my mind.

Amanda Steele

#100. Think about for a minute what your body goes through out there. On a Friday night, you have a steak and then Saturday morning, you get up and have some eggs and some pancakes. Then Sunday, you're on 'Survivor' and suddenly you have nothing.

Jeff Probst