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Quotes About Survivor

We have named our kids Ryan and Krishank. Well, Ryan is also called as Sultan as he is a survivor and had a long struggle with life.
~ Kashmira Shah
It started back in 2002, when there was hardly any reality television. 'Survivor' had just started. My hope and dream was that 'The Bachelor' would last one or two nights on network TV, so I might meet somebody in the network and then I could get a real job.
~ Chris Harrison
I like myself being a survivor.
~ John Densmore
Most people have a kind of survivor bias about luck. When something wonderful happens - when preparation meets opportunity, with excellent results - we think: 'How lucky!' But we don't usually acknowledge all the times when things just... fizzle out. All the times when preparation comes to nothing.
~ Marc Randolph
I look over and Mike's not there, I hear the drums and know it isn't Jeff. I guess there is some survivor's guilt, but I'm happy to be here every day, still doing what I love most.
~ Steve Porcaro
I consider myself a survivor.
~ Robert Pires
You know, I suffer kind of from survivor's guilt. It's like you suffer from success because you feel like - why me? Why am I so special? What makes me so different from the next man and why am I able to achieve these things that this person can't? Prayer is the only thing that helps me get through it.
~ Goldlink
I'm not just a runner. I'm not just a fast guy. I'm a fighter. I'm a survivor in life.
~ Justin Gatlin
My novella, 'The Lucky One,' is inspired in part by my dad and also by a Holocaust survivor I interviewed for the Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Foundation.
~ Jenna Blum
I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one.
~ Christopher Plummer
Gay guys love women who are tough, who are survivors. They always call me a diva. And I am a survivor; I've pulled through everything and I've not become bitter about it.
~ Samantha Fox
Phil is a child of Holocaust survivors.
~ Monica Horan
The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.
~ Imre Kertesz
'Survivor' is one of CBS's signature series and symbol of enduring quality and entertainment on prime time television.
~ Nina Tassler
As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace.
~ Rene Cassin
The look in her eyes is of a person who drank from the end of a gun barrel and found it delicious.
~ Rene Denfeld
Sometimes buried memories of abuse emerge spontaneously. A triggering event or catalyst starts the memories flowing. The survivor then experiences the memories as a barrage of images about the abuse and related details. Memories that are retrieved in this manner are relatively easy to understand and believe because the person remembering is so flooded with coherent, consistent information.
~ Renee Fredrickson
What most people call spontaneous recall usually involves memories that have been denied, not repressed. The survivor has always been aware that the sexual abuse happened, but he or she has studiously avoided thinking about it. A catalyst sets the memory process in motion, but the essential factor in the memory surfacing is the readiness of the survivor to deal with the reality of abuse.
~ Renee Fredrickson
Something in the lone survivor knows that even the ironclad law of Now can be outlasted.
~ Richard Powers
The character damage of a trauma survivor," he concludes, "can be understood as a reflection both of his or her radical aloneness and of the continued presence of the perpetrator in the victim's inner life.
~ Richard Rhodes
La superviviente del holocausto Corrie Ten Boom dijo: «Si miras el mundo, te angustiarás. Si miras dentro de ti, te deprimirás. Pero si miras a Cristo, encontrarás descanso».
~ Rick Warren
En la noche del 25 de noviembre de 1120, el Navío Blanco zarpó rumbo a Inglaterra y se hundió en Barfleur con todos cuantos viajaban a bordo salvo uno… El navío era
~ Ken Follett
Death ends a life, but it does not end a relationship, which struggles on in the survivor's mind toward some resolution which it may never find.
~ Robert Anderson
All this occupied his thoughts when he revisited the places of his war. Tramping over soil fed by the blood of men he had led and whose faces now stirred in his memory, it was his wife's response that came - as if in compensation for too little said before - when he wondered why his wandering had led him back to these old battlefields: in his sixty-ninth year he was establishing his survivor's status.
~ William Trevor