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Quotes About Rescue

God is something that needs rescuing from religion.
~ Sinead O'Connor
Just stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far. I will find you!
~ Daniel Day-Lewis
Lucy woke with the munchies the night the kidnappers came for her.
~ Pamela Burford, Snatched
Thank goodness there are women in our lives -- that's all I can say. We get saved by the women in our lives.
~ young wm paul iii
You know that if ever the Fyrdraaca family is in true trouble, Barbizon is supposed to come to life and to our rescue, just as she did for Azucar.' 'Ayah, Poppy, I've heard the story.' 'Well, I often consider that I've sat here many times, and often felt in true trouble, and yet Barbizon has never leaped to my aid. So you know what that makes me think?' 'That it's just a story?' 'No, no. That my trouble is never true trouble. And things, though I think them bad, are not really so.
~ Ysabeau S. Wilce
Te encuentras bien? Tu barco está a punto de undirse. Todavía no has pedido socorro? Has abusado del barco de tu espíritu y te has privado a ti misma de puerto. Ahora, pues, ha llegado el momento de continuar a nado, de atravesar el mar nadando con tus propias y solas fuerzas. Todo lo que tienes delante es la muerte. ¿Es eso lo que quieres?
~ Yukio Mishima
Sousa Mendes, armed with little more than a rubber stamp, was responsible for the largest rescue operation by a single individual during the Holocaust.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Thanks again for saving me. Someday, I'll save you too.
~ Zelda Fitzgerald
A bedraggled woman stood on his doorstep in the pouring rain, and his first impulse was to slam the door in her face. But she had clearly come as far as she could; her pale face was twisted in pain, and she shivered convulsively beneath a denim jacket that was as soaking wet as the rest of her. Long black strands of hair hung down in twisted ribbons like seaweed in the vanishing daylight, reminding him of a sea creature he'd once dated briefly in his more adventurous youth.
~ Deborah Blake
I swore I wasn't going to rescue any more damsels in distress," Day muttered. To his surprise, Barbara gave him a lopsided grin, banging on the side of the trailer to make it produce a door. "What makes you think she isn't rescuing you?" she asked, and stomped inside without a backward look.
~ Deborah Blake
Trying to rescue your parents from their worst devils is hard on kids, you know? Makes 'em either mean or saintly or both.
~ Deborah Smith
Books had rescued me when i most needed saving... Books were smarter than me and words inspired me... to try something new, charge forward without a clear understanding of what would happen next, because "given something like death, what does it matter if one looks foolish now and then, or tries too hard, or cares too deeply?" In the end, Thoreau, Whitman, Hafiz, and a dozen other writers put me up to the task of seeing if I dared to "live a life worth living.
~ Dee Williams
how Al rescued Mrs. Maria Adamo's stolen washtub and used it as a weapon in a fight with an Irish gang that disrespected Italian women.
~ Deirdre Bair
He stepped closer to her. "Thank you for saving me," he said softly, and wrapped the bones of his arms around her. Valkyrie smiled and hugged him back.
~ Derek Landy
Skul-man!' he exclaimed as he rushed forward to shake his hand. 'Last I heard you were trapped on a dead world overrun by evil trans-dimensional superfiends!' Skulduggery nodded. 'Just got back.
~ Derek Landy
It wouldn't be imminent death, though, would it? You'd catch me. There's no threat there. You'd save me because saving me is what you do, just like saving you is what I do. The only thing that dropping me would accomplish is to annoy the hell out of me.
~ Derek Landy
Valkyrie!" Melancholia called. "Please help me!
~ Derek Landy
Remember that day I called Valkyrie and told her to take the afternoon off? Yeah, I was stuck in a wall.
~ Derek Landy
I impressed them by attacking an entire battalion of Mevolent's troops on my own." "You slipped," said Shudder. "Stop saying that. I did not slip." "I was there. You slipped and fell down the hill and rolled into their camp." "Aggressively. I rolled aggressively into their camp." "I had to save you." "Why do you always say it like that?
~ Derek Landy
No?" Valkyrie asked. "You don't have anyone strapped to a table somewhere, their ribcage open, their organs on a nearby tray while they look around, hallucinating friends and family come to rescue them? No?
~ Derek Landy
A new era will dawn in Africa, when the impoverished masses of a nation rise up to rescue their right to a decent life from the hands of the ruling oligarchies.
~ Che Guevara
If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can land and save your life.
~ Igor Sikorsky
The horse saved my life, so that's kind of why I'll spend the rest of mine trying to help them.
~ Buck Brannaman
When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.
~ John Lennon