Top 325 Survivors Quotes & Sayings

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

All I treat at the hospital is trauma survivors.

In 'Last to Die,' three children living in different cities are the only survivors when their families are slaughtered. Two years later, their foster families are murdered, and these three orphans are once again the only survivors.

I want survivors to know that healing is possible.

We are survivors from the moment of diagnosis.

Did you ever notice how many survivors they have? Did you ever notice that? Everybody - every time you turn around, 15,000 survivors meet here, 400 survivors convention there. I mean, did you ever notice? Nazis sure were inefficient, weren't they? Boy, boy, boy! ...You almost have no survivors that ever say they saw a gas chamber or saw the workings of a gas chamber...they'll say these preposterous stories that anybody can check out to be a lie, an absolute lie.

I don't always burn my bridges, but when I do, I like there to be no survivors.

I do a lot of research. For 'I Am Legend', I did a lot of research about survivors. If everybody is dead around you, how you can keep surviving. I went to the bookstore and found psychiatry books about survivors from the Holocaust.

You told me it was a mistake to fight the scarred warriors. They were the survivors.

Survivors are so often re-victimized by a system that demands they prove their purity and innocence.

There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.

We were fortunate enough to have several good books detailing the camps and the women. Some were by the survivors. I also got to talk to some of the women who had been in the camp, survivors.

I have the greatest respect for the survivors of the Holocaust. We can't even imagine what these people went through.

My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.

Lucky is the spouse who dies first, who never has to know what survivors endure.

Survivors lived with their mistakes.

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.

For survivors, the word closure often connotes that the bereaved are underachievers who flunked a grief course.

There's a reason survivors choose not to go to the police, and that's because they're treated as the criminals. The rapists are innocent until proven guilty, but survivors are guilty until proven innocent - at least in the eyes of the police.

You can get used to anything - haven't I already said that? Isn't that what all survivors say?

I guess I'm a survivor. There are many of us survivors and any successful woman of my age has somewhat of that in her.

One of the facts about sexual assault is that it is a very underreported offense, and there are a whole lot of reasons why individuals don't report to law enforcement. Uber shouldn't make that choice for survivors. Survivors should make that choice for themselves.

I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don't know how

With the children of Holocaust survivors, there is always a very close relationship. You grow with the sense that you are parenting your parents and - with this kind of responsibility to protect them. That's what makes the children of Holocaust survivors strange.

We want to turn victims into survivors - and survivors into thrivers.

The dead have a way of becoming saints in the eyes of their survivors.

There are no survivors in my fights.

It’s the leftover humans. The survivors. They’re the ones I can’t stand to look at, although on many occasions I still fail. I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair, and surprises. They have punctured hearts. They have beaten lungs. Which in turn brings me to the subject I am telling you about tonight, or today, or whatever the hour and color. It’s the story of one of those perpetual survivors –an expert at being left behind.

Germany can make a major difference in the lives of so many Holocaust survivors who are struggling in their later years.

There will always be survivors.

Survivors can't always choose their methods.

Victims and survivors deserve more than a person seeking a headline.

I'm one of the handful of survivors of the guys I came up with.

Black people are achievers; we're survivors.

Women are not just victims; they are survivors and leaders on the community-level backlines of peace and stability.

The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead.

I'm not interested in playing the victim. I like stories about survivors.

The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.

If history is a record of survivors, Poetry shelters other voices.

Death fixes forever the relation existing between the departed spirit and the survivors upon earth.

All of the characters I've had the chance to create are survivors. But we live in a world where surviving makes up most of what we do.

Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

I've remained in touch with more than a dozen descendants of Gremlin Special survivors, victims, and rescuers. I treasured my friendship with Earl Walter Jr., the lead paratrooper who jumped into the valley to protect the survivors.

I've been aware of the incredible work that The Survivors Trust do for a while now and have wanted to find a way to launch a working relationship with them, to help raise money to fund all the crucial support they provide for survivors.

The work is more than just about the amplification of survivors and quantifying their numbers. The work is really about survivors talking to each other and saying, 'I see you. I support you. I get it.'

In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors.

My sister and mom are both cancer survivors. If they're going to whip it, so am I.

Survivors are cooperators. In order to survive in anything we need others to cooperate with or partner with.

A full scale nuclear exchange, lasting less than 60 minutes...could wipe out more than 300 million Americans, Europeans, and Russians, as well as untold numbers elsewhere. And the survivors-as Chairman Khrushchev warned the Communist Chinese, `the survivors would envy the dead.' For they would inherit a world so devastated by explosions and poison and fire that today we cannot conceive of its horrors.

People who live through transplants or disasters like Sept. 11 are survivors.

It occurred to me that if I did not handle the crash correctly, there would be no survivors.

There are no heroes on the battlefield, my lady; there are only survivors.

After eighty, there are no enemies, only survivors.

Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors.

In many regards, Me Too is about survivors talking to survivors.

It was only when the giant got halfway down the incline that he suddenly, happily, burst into flame and continued his trip saying, "NO SURVIVORS, NO SURVIVORS!" in a manner that could only indicate deadly sincerity. It was seeing him happily burning and advancing that startled the Brute Squad to screaming. And once that happened, why, everybody panicked and ran.

The Holocaust survivors are among the most inspiring people I have had the privilege to meet.

Phil is a child of Holocaust survivors.

Both of our daughters, Debbie and Bonnie, are also cancer survivors.