Rudy Giuliani Quotes

There is nothing so satisfying as to be shot at without effect.

I often felt like that Mr. Magoo figure in the cartoon, who just wanders through traffic, and somehow it never hits him. I kind of feel that way about my whole childhood: Why do I have a normal life?

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

I should have been dead ten times over. I've thought about that a lot. I believe in miracles. It's an absolute miracle that I'm still around.

All of us love miracles. We just don't like being in a situation that necessitates one.

I'm a fast healer. I was on the air a week after I got shot.

My architecture is the architecture of survival.

I think the aloe is one of South Africa's most powerful, beautiful and celebratory symbols. It survives out there in the wild when everything else is dried.

The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.

I can't beleive I'm here to tell the tale, this was my first brush with death, and God must have been looking after us and obviously, it wasn't our time.

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

We cannot afford to lose. This may be our last stand in history. The Jewish people have something to give to the world. I believe if you look at our history and at all the difficulties we have survived, it means that history wants us to continue.

I am not hurt.

It is a miracle that I am alive today.

I've survived. I've beaten my own bad system, and on some days, on most days, that feels like a miracle.

I know that there's a god because I was able to survive everything that I've been through - all of the tough times - and I'm still at the top of my game.

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.

Every time I found an egg to eat, or when I survived a storm in which trees were collapsing all around me, I felt that it was Providence. I don't need to believe - I know.

When you meet me and hang out with me, I might come across as a very upbeat, driven person. I don't come across as someone who is wounded.

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.

Life looked bleak when I became chairman of the group at the age of 29. But I survived, as the Lord must have carried me when I needed Him the most.

The architect who first inspired me to follow this profession was Sir John Soane and his Regency home; well, his three homes, now a museum. The place is like an encyclopedia of paintings, antiquities, furniture, sculptures, and drawings.

Of this voyage, I observe, that it has miraculously been shown, as may be understood by this writing, by the many signal miracles that He has shown on the voyage, and for me, who for so great a time was in the court of Your Highnesses with the opposition and against the opinion of so many high personages of your household, who were all against me, alleging this undertaking to be folly, which I hope in Our Lord will be to the greater glory of Christianity, which to some slight extent already has happened.

I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.

Believe in miracles. And live in a way that might necessitate one.