Survived Quotes

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Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity?

The creative adult is the child who has survived.

I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.

I survived, carried on, glad to be like a weed, a wild red poppy, rooted in life.

From every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story. A story that says, "I survived."

Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated suffering.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

Scars are beautiful when we see them as glorious reminders that we courageously survived.

I’d love to be faster. Physically I’m limited, but I’ve survived by using my head.

When one remembers how the Catholic Church has been governed, and by whom, one realizes that it must have been divinely inspired to have survived at all.

I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.

Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.

When you have walked through the hell of your negative thoughts and survived, no pain on this earth will ever again worry you.

Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.

A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

The black family unit that had survived 150 years of slavery was decimated in less than 30 years by welfare payments that stopped if the family structure remained intact.

Remember all those times I swore I needed you? Well consider them lies because baby here I am without you and I survived.

You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it.

Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself.

I no longer scramble blindly through hardship. I no longer emerge from a bad time feeling relieved just to have survived. Instead of despairing, I try to find the lesson within the experience.

No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income.

No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under.

No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours.

I want to live my life in a way that when I get really old, I look back at my life and say: aaah I lived it, not survived it.

I can't think of a greater legacy than, "Because you lived, another species survived."

I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years and survived. We brought it back to the streets again.

I was a rust repairer. I was a rust repairer and full-time survivor. I survived all the major earthquakes, and the Titanic, and several air crash.

I did not want to be labelled the designer who survived the atomic bomb, and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.

I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.

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

Every person you see has stories, and every person you see has a few that would break your heart. We deserve each other's respect simply because we've survived all we have and kept going anyway.

First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.

I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong...I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.

I've been a survivor my whole life...if I survived the Marines, I can survive Muhammad Ali.

You survived the abuse, you’re going to survive the recovery.

I don't panic. The same thing applies to me as to everybody else, so I'm given to euphoria and despair. And I would say that I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.

How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?

I just pinch myself, because I think if theres anything I can be proud of, Ive survived success, which I think is difficult these days.

I also survived circumcision, a barbaric practice designed to remind you as early as possible that your genitals are not your own.

Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot.

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.

There's never been a civilization, ever in history, that has embraced homosexuality and turned away from traditional fidelity and traditional marriage, traditional child rearing, and has survived.

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.

The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.

You might have lost some major battles, but you survived and you're still here.

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

Never trust a survivor until you know how they survived.