Someone once said "The only thing that will be left after a nuclear holocaust is Cher and cockroaches. " I think that's funny, because, you know, I am a survivor. If I am anything, that's what I am.
I was a rust repairer. I was a rust repairer and full-time survivor. I survived all the major earthquakes, and the Titanic, and several air crash.
If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.
I don't want to be the only survivor on the island with no smoke.
I guess everybody who isn't dead yet is a survivor.
Of all the subjects I have photographed, the most controversial and the one that has moved me the most has to be the prostitutes who are getting on in years. They are true survivors.
I was the last, the sole survivor. The most honorable thing a survivor could do was survive. If you stayed on your feet, stayed alive, you were the winner.
I feel like I have a Ph. D. in life, I'm a survivor. I've not only survived, I've thrived.
[Working with survivors] it's just a whole different level of concern and that is something that was categorically different working on this film than any other project we had done.
My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying.
Death fixes forever the relation existing between the departed spirit and the survivors upon earth.