Marilu Henner Quotes

The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself behind enemy lines, or in a flood.

My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met.

Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.

I’m no hero. Hero’s don’t return from war. Survivors do.

The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth? — Because one did survive the wreck.

Not everyone can stand up and be a hero, Princess. Some prefer to surrender to the inevitable and salve their consciences with the gift of survival.

i am like a survivor of the flood walking through the streets drenched with God surprised that all of the drowned victims are still walking and talking

Necessity makes heroes of us all.

He had found the band of jackals he needed. But as Jack McCall rode through the center of town, he experienced the terrifying certainty that a man faces when he's about to make his own name famous. He lacked both a hero's calm and a coward's resolve to survive at any price.

Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.

But if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to let the story end this way. I may be the last one, but I am the one still standing. I am the one turning to face the faceless hunter in the woods on an abandoned highway. I am the one not running but facing. Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity. And if this is humanity's last war, then I am the battlefield.

I think my song that reminds me of Mama is "I'm A Survivor" because she is one.

I wanted to be able to tell my grandkids one day, "Hey, your grandpa ran into a burning building and survived."

I deem as heroic those who have the harder task, face it unflinchingly and live. In this world women do that.

I don't know where you're reading all this stuff, but it's pretty accurate, yes. It was in 1942. I was on a ship called the Accelo(ph) coming back from the Red Sea and we were sunk off the coast of Africa by a German submarine. And I was in a lifeboat for 14 days and landed and lived with the Pondos in South Africa while - who took care of us and took care of me. I had some wound in my left leg.

There will always be survivors.

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

You'll beat this. I know it doesn't feel like it, but you will. You're a survivor." "I don't want to survive it." "I know that, too," Nell had said. "And it's fair enough. But sometimes we don't have a choice.

What we share may be a lot like a traffic accident but we get one another. We are survivors of each other. We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat. That counts for something.

When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on.

Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale, but surely, a great rich country like ours will see that those who are dependent on us are properly provided for.

A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.

Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.

not every boy thrown to the wolves becomes a hero.

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