Quotes About Resilience

Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo.

I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I'm just grateful that I survived. But the music got very lost; I didn't know where I was going, and I didn't really care. I was more into just having a good time, and I think it showed.

If I had chosen to act only as a heroine then I would have disappeared from the scene long ago. So, I decided to take up comedienne roles, so I survived in the industry for nearly five decades.

I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really.

That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say.

I play the unsinkable Molly Brown, which is where she got her name from, because she survived.

I've been to hell and back. I'm just glad I survived.

However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our home library that did not provide much reliable information, and then I emptied the rather extensive city library.

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.

The human race survived the Inquisition. We can survive. It's like the Anne Frank quote: 'In spite of everything, I still believe that people are basically good at heart.' Given what happened to her, it's one of the miracles of the world that she said that.

The bond between the United States and Britain has always been strong. It has survived through war and peace, periods of prosperity and economic hardship.

I've been married a couple of times and survived!

Faced with destruction, the Jewish people survived.

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

I'm not the only one; most people's mothers are the most influential person in their life. But my mother survived the camps, and she was very strong. She made me strong, but she wanted me to be strong. That's more important.

Messrs. Washington and Lincoln faced enormous difficulties, but they both gave their lives to make sure America survived.

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

Don't worry, America. We survived Jimmy Carter, and we will survive Barack Obama. Only one questions remains... who is the next Ronald Reagan?

The power organisation of Israel gives what they can to fight me, to cause me some harm, damages in health, mind, and they succeed little bit, but I survived and I am now free, but it was very hard - a very difficult time - and I wish no one would suffer what I suffered, and then when I speak to you and try to be human being like everyone.

Jimmy Boggs was born in a little town called Marion Junction, Alabama, where there were as many pigs, or more pigs, than even the people. But you know what? People in the South had an understanding that you could make a way out of no way, and that's how they survived.

In the necessary memorialisation of the six million dead, there had been precious little attention paid to those who survived and how they survived.

I was in Congress for six months, and they put me on blood pressure medication. I flew helicopters in combat and I was fine, and I survived 13 months in recovery in the hospital... I got to Congress, and six months later I'm on blood pressure medication. Fourteen months later, they doubled the dosage!

Travelgate eventually faded, and the nation somehow survived - American exceptionalism at work again.