Quotes about Survivors

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Frances and Violet are wonderful, lively characters ? I love them all. These survivors are incredible, irrevocably amazing people.

Taren Sapienza

[In his column] FEMA Sends Katrina Survivors to American Gulag; Municipal Bond Holders at Risk, ... in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, what has become apparent in New Orleans is the inability of the local, county and city law enforcement to restore the rule of law.

Al Martin

The plane went out of control and crashed. There are no survivors.

Francisco Paz

It's a day to think about prevention of sexual assault and to provide support to survivors of sexual assault. It's our chance to educate the public about the problem of sexual assault in our community.

Linda Herbert

For victims and survivors, the help means everything.

Jennifer Garraway

It is important to us to say to victims and survivors of gunshots and violence that we are trying to do something.

Shane Price

The issue of the funding remains, but we have just decided to focus on the survivors and figure out what we can do for them with what little we have been given by the international donors.

Ben Malor

Agricultural research cannot cure the HIV/AIDS epidemic but it can lessen its impact on survivors.

Annmarie Kormawa

This gives survivors and their friends and family the opportunity to share what happened and move on.

Tara Fisher

Four years ago, we were naive; there was fierce fighting, ... Now all of us are survivors. We are more calm-minded.

Jack Ma

[The survivors] are such an inspiration to all of us after what they've been through and I just really think it's important for us to carry on the legacy.

Lisa Mendler

We are assessing how weather affected the condition of survivors and what are their urgent needs.

Ben Malor

At this point, women should not be taking high-dose soy supplements, especially those who are breast cancer survivors and women at increased risk for the disease. We don't have long-term data on the effects of these supplements, and there is some evidence that they could be harmful.

Bruce Trock

We also will have people on hand to discuss the grieving process, and how children react at certain ages. We also will have training available for people who want to join the speakers' bureau. Many survivors want to go out and share their stories.

Linda Hurley

The message received was 'In the interest of the safety of my crew, I have decided to sail to Christmas Island and disembark the survivors.

Ben Mitchell

John is one of these guys that if a nuclear bomb hits, it will be John and cockroaches left as the only survivors.

Kathy Pulley

We were at a cross-roads last week when we heard the news that Ft. Chaffee was no longer sending hurricane survivors to the area.

Michelle Evans

There are reasons, which are more likely to be known to those who work with rape survivors and who have experience in this field, why rape survivors frequently do not take the first opportunity to make known such an assault and to seek help.

Liesl Gerntholtz

We have contacted 90 survivors, some from last year and new ones who joined us this year, and invited them to come and participate in this event. The survivors will also need to check in at their table between 4:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. where they will receive their purple survivor's shirt and a Relay for Life t-shirt if they are on a team.

Ann Patterson

We had no money to give, but we have talent and resources, so this site is our gift to the survivors of Hurricane Katrina. Our mission is to expedite the rebuilding of the city of New Orleans and to assist the survivors of Katrina's wrath by providing timely information and indispensable resources related to their needs.

Mike Bird

We've just tried to live and remain intact and keep our land intact. Today the battle is still going on, just in a different area. We'll always be part of this land. We're not going anywhere. We're survivors.

Leon Bear

Awareness can save lives. It is essential that the Congress act to promote educational initiatives to prevent gynecologic cancer deaths. Our coalition of cancer survivors, doctors and those whose lives have been affected by gynecologic cancers will continue to press for the passage of Johanna's Law.

Darrell Issa

The Charter mentions nowhere the duty of the state to investigate serious human rights abuses, to prosecute those found to be responsible, or to address the right of families of the 'disappeared' and other victims and their survivors to know the truth and see that justice is done. The document makes no mention of the possibility of establishing a truth commission of any kind.

The League

Our staff members are distributing tents, blankets, food and plastic sheeting to survivors as quickly as we can – right through the night.

Bruce Rasmussen

By air we have covered most of the areas and our teams are out there looking for survivors and bodies.

Vijay Bakaya

There will be bikes there 70 years old with original paint. We call them survivors.

Scott Swaney

[Past team members have told Gilmore that the first few days of the tour are ridden on adrenaline,] and then you crash. ... cancer survivors know what reaching down is all about.

Robert Gilmore

This is a huge step for survivors to step up. There is the possibility that someone may bring it up later when the person is not prepared, and we don't want them to be victimized again.

Shandi Pierzina

I can also understand to some extent the frustration these survivors are experiencing, ... The sheer number of people crammed in here boggles the mind. There are literally tens of thousands of people still here and they are packed in like sardines. They are frustrated and angry and crowd control is always a concern.

Scott Warner

Thank goodness Sen. Grassley is providing some adult supervision. It's not just the taxpayers who are harmed by the current Monopoly money mentality in Washington, D.C., but more directly the hurricane survivors themselves. Every penny spent should help the survivors instead of lining the pockets of disaster profiteers.

Danielle Brian

It is entirely fitting that victim survivors be heard in the criminal justice system, but a criminal trial is not an occasion for national grief and mourning. We need to separate national catharsis from the criminal justice system, otherwise we have the justice of the mob.

David Bruck

It's minus 18 degrees Celsius here. The plane's fuselage is completely burnt out. It is absolutely inconceivable that there could be other survivors.

Laszlo Garamvolgyi

We covered 'Hey, Jude.' My father panicked, misunderstanding the lyrics and thinking our lead singer was belting out 'Hey, Jew' to a roomful of Holocaust survivors.

Ben Stiller

I have a glimmer of hope, based on the rule of thumb: Within 24 hours, you can still find survivors. After that, you move on to the recovery phase.

Rosette Lerias

She directs one of the finest breast-cancer centers in the country. We get a lot of cancer survivors who tell their story, but we never get this perspective on how a doctor became a patient. Normally you go to a doctor who has not experienced what you've experienced.

Sue Prosser

Survivors are grateful that there's someone who won't give up. We're trying to give some peace and some solace to people who have not known what happened to their loved one. But I don't use the word 'closure.' We can't close the book. It's never going to be closed.

Linda Klein

We thought we'd have to look for survivors.

Chuck Miller

At least it gives us hope that as of 4 a.m. there were living survivors in that building.

Anthony Golez

I ran there and when I got there, there were four or five boats looking in the water. I didn't see anybody that looked like survivors. I didn't see anybody at all.

Jeff Anderson

This is a very emotional time and sets the stage for the importance of each participant's contribution. A festive atmosphere always develops around the track area when the survivors make the first celebration lap to open up the Relay.

Paula Fambrough

Lean staffing levels over the past several years have intensified workloads for those employees who avoided layoffs. Now that the labor market is opening up, those survivors may not be as fearful of losing their jobs and may be taking the mental health breaks they feel they deserve. Employers may even see a 'culture of entitlement' emerge as the economy strengthens further.

Lisa Franke

We are fishermen. It's going to be hard to do something else. We don't have much to live on. We take care of one another. We're survivors.

Louis Thompson

Our trip to Washington reminded us that there is an idea of justice that we believe is worth fighting for. As we helped the survivors of America's bloodiest civil disturbance since the abolition of slavery up the steps of the high court, we realized that their struggle for a just society has become our struggle for a just society.

Alex Ewing

Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors.

Robert Fulghum

Adverse outcomes are rare, so we have to be able to study large groups of cancer survivors in order to develop precise estimates of risk.

John Boice

We're helping the survivors of Katrina, having our voices heard, and it's a great way to take back Sept. 11.

Alice Hoffman

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

Donal Henahan

It is also a time of inheritance, of awakening, and of commitment, in which we inherit the commitment of the A-bomb survivors to the abolition of nuclear weapons and realization of genuine world peace, awaken to our individual responsibilities, and recommit ourselves to take action.

Tadatoshi Akiba

This is a time for all of us to do as much as we can to help the courageous survivors of this unimaginable catastrophe which has impacted so many people's lives over such a large area of our country, ... Marilyn, Billy and our entire team are all grateful to be able to work with Feed the Children and to be of service.

Kathy Ireland

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

Thomas Mann

Unfortunately, there were no survivors from this accident.

Francisco Paz

I appreciate all the coalition partners that have come together and the people that are part of the Katrina/Rita network. That's what survivors asked us to do, to come back and join hands with all activists in the city and to build a powerful movement throughout the country. We are beginning that process.

Brenda Stokely

We were afraid that Holocaust survivors would not like the idea of the play, but I think that the Israeli audience is more mature today than it was 30 years ago.

Dan Almagor

The organisms found in ice are survivors. Small ecosystems in the ice have apparently adapted to extremely cold conditions.

Liane Benning

There are no survivors here. It happened more than 48 hours ago. They are dead.

Mario Cruz

While local, state and federal officials were bogged down in bureaucracy, Connick flew to his native city and personally delivered water and food to survivors.

Harry Connick, Jr.

The students and faculty of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities are motivated survivors and self-achievers. We look forward to providing them with effective tools and supportive services that assist them in maximizing their health as they work to transform their communities.

Reed Tuckson

He made a point of telling me they'd learned from what Australia has done, what they should be doing for their people (Bali survivors) in England.

Peter Hughes

To get people's attention and help them really understand the issue, it's really important to hear from survivors.

John Salveson

We have a growing number of breast-cancer survivors who face a very difficult decision about whether or not to use HRT.

Leon Speroff

Building survivors overall had high levels of respiratory symptoms and high levels of mental health symptoms two or three years after the event, when we interviewed them.

Dr. Lorna Thorpe

In Washington, officials from the National Rifle Association met with a group of high school students. There were no survivors.

Tina Fey

I love the Desert Survivors, because this group goes to all those places other people just drive past. And I've grown to love the desert because of all its wide-open spaces. They provide me with a true sense of peacefulness and freedom.

Ron Horton

I don't know how to describe it except to say that what was once the beautiful and thriving city of New Orleans now looks more like a third world country, ... The living conditions for the injured, the sick and the survivors of Hurricane Katrina are disgusting. The stench is awful and the conditions are terrible, yet people hang on to life -- some ever so slight -- but they hang on.

Scott Warner

The survivors were seated in the back. They managed to get out and wade through the swamp to the nearest road.

Johnny Luna

I'm afraid we haven't found any survivors. It's not possible to survive at this depth, in my opinion.

Aivar Muriks

For the survivors who are in the tents, the conditions are unacceptable. There is no other word for it.

Eric Morris

I think there was a stigma about reporting to police, but I think it's getting better. A lot of people are working very hard to make sure services are sensitive to survivors, so I think that will increase people who report sexual violence, but we still have a long way to go.

Elle Petcavage

These people are barely surviving, but the crisis begins when a real sickness befalls them. The government of Israel has received money from the German government ... but I think the government didn't use enough for the survivors.

Zeev Factor