Juliana Hatfield Quotes

My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I'm just thankful to be alive. I'm just grateful to be here at all.

I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.

I'm lucky to be alive.

There's a lot of times when I shouldn't have been here. I go, 'Man, I'm blessed.' I've had people shoot at me and had all kinds of stuff happen, and somehow I'm still here, and other people are not.

There's something about being amid the chaos and the horror of a war that makes you appreciate all you don't have - and all you may lose forever.

I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'

A brain hemorrhage puts it all in a deeper perspective. I'm one of those guys hit by lightning. I see the big picture. Everything is in perspective now. Let's just say I'm the kind of guy who knows how to enjoy the moment.

I pull the sleeping bag up to his chin and kiss his forehead, not for the audience, but for me. Because I'm so grateful that he's here, not dead by the stream as I'd thought. So glad I don't have to face Cato alone.

...Proximity to a noose danger and death ... can make man or woman appreciate things.

Remember that time in the minivan, twenty minutes ago, when we didn't die?

I nearly died three times in 2008, and when you go through those experiences, you realize that you're blessed every day that you wake up. My world changed, my life changed, and with the help of my wife Jane, I was able to survive.

I had a really hard time after 9/11. I was basically living across the street from the World Trade Center, and a big chunk of debris fell on top of my building, and the roof caved in. I thought I was going to die. Really. I'd never thought that before, but on that day I sat there and thought 'I cannot believe it's going to end this way.'

I hate this hole, but I am glad to have come. It does me good to see those who hate the Tribune fear it yet more.

Coming close to death you begin to know what life means, and what it means is gratitude.

Once you've stared death in the face, every day is a good day.

I'm grateful for rain because, when I was kidnapped, that meant that I had something to drink.

I was bit by a dog when I was two years old, and it almost mauled my face. It almost killed and/or blinded me. I was this close to dying at two, which is terrible. I survived it, and there was no head trauma or anything like that. Honestly, it was a miracle.

As a kid growing up in Chicago, I've been shot at before. I remember I very calmly went down on the ground. Afterwards, you're like, 'Omigod.' You just don't have time to think.

Growing up in a trailer, you think everything you get is good. I always thought it was a gift from God, because some people are out here struggling and on the street. We had warmth. We had clothes. We had a roof over our head.

I know that I am a lucky guy. I know that after an accident like the one I had, you know, only one guy out of a thousand can really go back home and still live. And I am that one. So I am totally aware of that.

I'd rather not have to come face to face with predators. I'd rather not be harassed. But no. Those weren't my choices to make, were they?

I got robbed once. A man pulled a gun on me and snatched my pocketbook in a car. I don't trust men that much any more.

I'm lucky to be alive. It's a blessing to tell my story, you know.

I was held up at gunpoint a month after I won Miss South Africa.

I'm just very fortunate that I'm alive. I look every day and see my hand and say, 'Thank you, Lord.'