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Quotes About Survived

Some molecules were stable. . . . These became letters in a new alphabet. They, too, reacted to form still larger clusters, a few of which survived and accrued. . . . the first genetic words.
~ David Brin
Think. In a minute from now you could be saying, I risked death. I threw for life, and I won life. It is a very wonderful feeling. To have survived.
~ John Fowles, The Magus
Think. In a minute from now you could be saying, I risked death. I threw for life, and I won life. It is a very wonderful feeling. To have survived.
~ John Fowles
Once I had flesh the city could pierce with a frown- I'd bleed into sewers like rain. Men without legs on subways moved me, women with swollen feet. Now I belong to them. When I ignore them it's with the confusion of the newly damned- as if I believe I've survived.
~ Unknown
The damage to their prestige and confidence would have been immense, and Churchill might not have survived as prime minister through 1941.
~ Max Hastings
And to think I survived this deadly workload, only to be murdered by the sight of my parents' bare asses, a tragedy that gives a whole new meaning to the word assassination.
~ Megan McCafferty
Oglethorpe left the colony in 1743, never to return. Three years earlier, a soldier had attempted to murder him, the musket ball tearing through his wig. He survived, but his dream for Georgia died. Over the next decade, land tenure policies were lifted, rum was allowed to flow freely, and slaves were sold surreptitiously. In 1750, settlers were formally granted the right to own slaves.
~ Unknown
Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
~ Oscar Wilde