Survived Quotes

For nearly 2 million years, our ancestors survived and thrived and spread across the planet because they could run other mammals into heat exhaustion.

[The Euclidean algorithm is] the granddaddy of all algorithms, because it is the oldest nontrivial algorithm that has survived to the present day.

now I know that my punishment from starclan is not that the other kits died but that this one survived" -yellowfang

There's a ton of truth in Flannery O'Connor's notion that "Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days."

I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.

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

I survive. I survived it all then and I'll survive the rest of it. Without your help.

You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.

I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.

...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.

I'm a mom. I'm from Ethiopia. I gave birth in the U.S. and had all the proper care available to me. If I had given birth in Ethiopia - I don't know if I might have even survived it.

Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.

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

I've seen the future, and I survived the test of time.

There's never been a civilization that has rewritten what marriage and family means and survived.

But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of September 11, 2001, our Nation has indeed survived.

Johnny Depp is, to me, a rare kindred spirit with like sensibilities, who has escaped the beast. He's probably one of the few people that have survived Los Angeles as a human being.

It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.

In our early period we pretty much survived or perished on our capacity to reach people, and on getting into the pattern of having no money and playing lots of shows.

A day merely survived is no cause for celebration.

You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.

Battle scars just remind us that we survived.

What kind of world permitted such terrible injustice, where good men were stripped of everything and soulless creatures of malice and hatred survived to glory in their pointless death?

Bulletproof is about the fact that I was shot in the face and survived. Nah I'm joking that'd be grisly and awful.

Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility?

I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.

It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.

My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other friends have had cancer but survived it.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.

I saw his scars - the visible ones-and saw how breaking him had not made him any less beautiful. If anything, he stood stronger, because he'd survived.

I've been through hell. It's hard to think you have this life, and then all of a sudden - was it a lie? You're struggling because it wasn't real. But I survived. It was hard, but it didn't kill me.

You know, I've had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I've survived it's all because of you.

That's kind of my ideal sequel - a movie that continues the story, takes one character and moves on, and moves forward with that character that survived with the first one.

There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.

Humanity has survived because the strong among us have, in the past, been obliged to help the weak. Without this, we would not survive.

Wow, you survived a blackout. You're made of stronger stuff than ice cream.

We've survived by believing our life is going to get better.

No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.

Captain Ahab drowned, he reminded himself; it was the trimmer, Ishmael, who survived.

High school wasn't a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You just had to provide the laugh track.

The Democratic Party is the - was the largest and most powerful institution supporting slavery in the English-speaking world. And it is the only one that has survived to the 21st century!

Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived.

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

It can be demonstrated from history that no society has ever survived after its family life deteriorated.

There is often in people in whom 'the worst' has happened an almost transcendent freedom, for they have faced 'the worst' and survived it.

Why should he be spared?' 'Someone ought to be.' And it will not be me. I have survived, but I have not been spared.

The Bible has, amazingly- no doubt with supernatural grace-survived its critics. The harder tyrants try to eliminate it and skeptics dismiss it, the better read it becomes.

I can survive setbacks, I've survived a lot of setbacks in my life. I don't see them as anything other than the natural ebb and flow of life and politics.

So many people dwell on negativity and I've survived by ignoring it: it dims your light and it's harder each time to turn the power up again.

I think I survived by running away some. Running away to work.