Quotes About Survivor

son of Stefano Mele and Barbara Locci, who was sleeping in the backseat of the car and who witnessed his mother's murder at age six.

He felt a strange pang. It was, perhaps, the fault of old Mr Jonathan, speaking of Juliet... No Juliet here - unless perhaps one could imagine Juliet a survivor - living on, deprived of Romeo... Was it not an essential part of Juliet's make-up that that she should die young?

High cognitive friction polarizes people into two groups. It either makes them feel frustrated and stupid for failing, or giddy with power at overcoming the extreme difficulty. These powerful emotions force people into being either an "apologist" or a "survivor." They either adopt cognitive friction as a lifestyle, or they go underground and accept it as a necessary evil. The polarization is growing acute.

You know what the doctors call me? 'The Cancer Warrior.'

Crack! I covered my head, ducked down. Bird didn't laugh. She likened me to a survivor of some traumatic event who is always spooked by certain noises. She just touched my shoulder and said, "It went the other way." I straightened up. "But it was a foul ball." "Yeah." I hated that I kept flinching. I wondered how long it was going to take before I could totally relax at a game.

A little gift from her mother who made Linda what she was –a damn survivor.

On Dec. 10, 2000, I learned I was free of cancer.

Sexual assault, like torture, is an attack on a victim's right to bodily integrity, to self-determination and self-expression. It's annihilatory, silencing. It intends to rub out the voice and rights of the victim, who must rise up out of that annihilation to speak.

The storyteller is the survivor, after all.

Laura was not a lonely teenaged girl anymore. She was fifty-five years old. She was a mother, a cancer survivor, a businesswoman. This was her life, Not Nick

I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor.

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

I'm a survivor in a business that constantly rejects you.

Because you've survived, there is a next strategy.

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.

There is much more joy in being a survivor than been a quitter.

The Etiquette of Illness, a book from 2004 by a social worker and psychotherapist named Susan Halpern, who is herself a cancer survivor. The subtitle is What to Say When You Can't Find the Words. But it's really about what to do when you feel scared that doing something, if it turns out to be the wrong thing, might be worse than doing nothing at all.

Persecutors, like Victims, act out of fear. The may seem fearless, but actually Persecutors are almost always former Victims.

If there is Predestination, then God is the devil. by Remy, Ravensbruck concentration camp survivor

i am like a survivor of the flood walking through the streets drenched with God surprised that all of the drowned victims are still walking and talking

All of my peers died of AIDS, and I have no one to celebrate my past or my journey, or to help me pass down stories to the next generation. We lost an entire generation of storytellers with HIV.

There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world.

I was only a gun captain on the battleship Alabama for 34 months. People have called me a hero for that, but I'll tell you this - heroes don't come home. Survivors come home.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.