Elliot Richardson Quotes

I think I'm a survivor. I could have suffered at least 100 professional deaths. I could come up with a list of the 100 times I've come closest to death, from having pneumonia as a child to car crashes.

I have a different kind of experience than other girls had. I've had to face a lot of different styles and adjust to them. I had to face a lot of bad situations and come back. I've had to fight with my eyes swollen shut and my nose broken and bloody.

I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible.

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

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

You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

I'm a survivor, at least that's what everyone tells me.

I've overcome physical and mental brutality - and fought back.

We imagine things - that we wouldn't be able to survive, but in fact, we do survive. We have no choice, so we do it.

We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.

If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.

My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets.

I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.

You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.

You don't have to be a scared person. I've had so many tragedies. I've managed to withstand things that you may think you cannot tolerate. But I have the strength.

I think that human beings were incredibly resilient; otherwise, we wouldn't keep going.

I'm a survivor.

As long as you don't fold up and curl up into a ball, you'll be all right.

Simple words of encouragement subsequently saved many of the Indianapolis' sailors during their ordeal in the summer of 1945, and those men took the lesson to heart.

My experience as a refugee had made me strong; I could survive anything, even the world of fashion.

I have been compelled to dig deep inside and pull out strengths I never knew I possessed in order to protect my family.

There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live.

You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.

When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore; you've changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all.