Quotes About Survivor

They had left the mountains and entered the world, and he became a predator. She had survived by playing dead.

I had just heard tales that the Valkyrie were large warriors, akin to Amazons." "If you're the sole survivor of an army attacked by us, are you going to say we had our asses handed to us by petite, nubile females, or by she-monsters who can bench Buicks?

Yet as bad as she felt, it was nothing compared to the stark despair she saw in Rafferty's eyes. It was so total, and went so deep, that it made her forget her own hurt to see it. It was the look of a man who'd given up deep inside where it mattered most, and for Maggie, who was a survivor to her very toes, it was profoundly disturbing.

You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.

when you are a survivor, in order to be a really good one, you have to keep getting in trouble to show off your gift.

But, the thing is that when you are a survivor, which fine, I reluctantly agree that I am—and who over 40 isn't?—when you are a survivor, in order to be a really good one, you have to keep getting in trouble to show off your gift.

I was living near the Twin Towers on 9/11, so I saw the attacks, and I had friends who were killed in the attacks.

I had a twin, and he didn't make it.

Surviving Is the only warWe can afford

Maryland as one of sixteen states that does not allow a rape victim to terminate the parental rights of her attacker.

Remember your Austen: 'Let us hope for better things. Let us flatter ourselves that I may be the survivor.

Iden was, as far as she knew, the sole survivor out of over a million victims of this act of rebel terrorism.

No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot, survivor of that time, that place. —ANNA AKHMATOVA, FROM POEMS OF AKHMATOVA, TRANSLATED BY STANLEY KUNITZ, WITH MAX HAYWARD

I look like any other girl my age, but I am different from most. A survivor. There is no way to forget what we went through in the Great Depression or to unlearn the lessons of hardship. Even though I am only eighteen, I remember my childhood as a time of loss.

She felt like that worst thing—a victim.

He "had business at Boys Town in Omaha, Nebraska" where the wayward boys were being traumatized and sexually abused in accordance with the Catholic involvement in Project Monarch. Survivor Paul Bonacci of the infamous Franklin Cover-up case has named Alex Houston as one of his abusers there in Boys Town.

resilience, become an upstanding doctor whose kids are also doctors. For many immigrants, if you move here with trauma, you're going to do what it takes to get by. You cheat. You beat your wife. You gamble. You're a survivor and, like most survivors, you are a god-awful parent. Watching Dao,

I have a new found respect for women who have been through breast cancer and this surgery.

I don't have time to explain that the women's movement named domestic violence in the first place, sought its prosecution by police and by new laws, created the first shelters, and has been working for thirty years to explain, for instance, that the moment of leaving is the time when a woman is most likely to be murdered, thus answering questions like "Why doesn't she just leave?

I am the last leaf on the tree, and the wind is blowing.

I think bitcoin has about a 1 in 100 chance of being a survivor. So I have 1% of my portfolio in bitcoin.

His dad asked Bud what the decorations meant. All the Samuel B. Roberts survivor could say in reply was they meant that he had not dishonored his mother.

I'm a two-time breast cancer survivor who lives with pre-existing conditions every day, and I know the uncertainty people face if they can't get their medicine.

Heart's always been sort of like a cockroach. You can set off a bomb, and it'll still be alive underneath.