Survived Quotes

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.

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.

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

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

I can't believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football 'cause half of those eight or nine years I don't even remember.

You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

The creative adult is the child who has survived.

Well over fifty years ago I was making radio loudspeakers and radio sets in Rochester, New York; pretty young and inexperienced; but we survived the depression.

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

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

I just pinch myself, because I think if there's anything I can be proud of, I've survived success, which I think is difficult these days.

So when I got to 50 I just thought, Hold on: I'm thin. I've got my hair. I'm well off. I survived, you know.

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.

It's not like we have a formula, but I think one of the reasons this show has survived is that it has a big heart at its center. Other cartoon shows have people crap on each other and make racist jokes. But I don't think people tune in for that. I just don't think a show lasts for 10 years without a heart.

The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part.

In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.

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

The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived.

It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics.

That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say.

I feel like I have a Ph.D. in life, I'm a survivor. I've not only survived, I've thrived.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on it thinking, Oh God, the things you did!

What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.

No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.

Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.

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.

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.

I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest. The experience of working there is something of a battleground, a great one, but complicated. I think there's a deep connection for having survived that workplace.