#survived

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family. ↗

— Dave Grohl

#being #family #happiness #happy #just

The creative adult is the child who has survived. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#child #creative #survived #who

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#amazed #long #mars #observer #probably

I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#dropped #got #house #i #made

But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of September 11, 2001, our Nation has indeed survived. ↗

— Nick Rahall

#cold #cold war #depression #great #great depression

Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#becomes #challenges #clear #did #disposable

I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#ashamed #better #bring #i #i am

I just pinch myself, because I think if there's anything I can be proud of, I've survived success, which I think is difficult these days. ↗

— TobyMac

#because #days #difficult #i #i can

My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other friends have had cancer but survived it. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#best friend #cancer #died #father #five

I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel. ↗

— Kenzaburo Oe

#i #mine #novel #representing #sufferings