#survived

Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical borders is almost wholly devoid of ethnic Armenians. ↗

— John Shimkus

#armenia #armenians #because #borders #controlled

We've survived by believing our life is going to get better. ↗

— Paul Simon

#better #get #going #life #our

Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent. ↗

— Ed Smith

#both #came #certainly #chefs #deep

It is difficult to say today whether the Battle of Kosovo was a defeat or a victory for the Serbian people, whether thanks to it we fell into slavery or we survived in this slavery. ↗

— Slobodan Milosevic

#defeat #difficult #fell #into #kosovo

I have flown and fallen, and I have swum deep and drowned, but there should be more to love than "I survived it. ↗

— Lisa Mantchev

#falling-in-love #love #survived #swim #love

No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy. ↗

— Kelsey Grammer

#compromise #day-to-day #deep #mishaps #really

Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is not that he survived the defection, but that he had to face it. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#blair #during #face #faced #had

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived. ↗

— John Boorman

#define #great #human #human behavior #i

Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#alive #course #died #earthquake #francisco

Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#dealt #disturbed #epoch #ever #historical