List Of People Who Survived Assassination Attempts
A sortable list of survivors of assassination attempts, listed by decade after 1900.
Read more about List Of People Who Survived Assassination Attempts: Since 2010, 2001 — 2010, 1991 — 2000, 1981 — 1990, 1971 — 1980, 1961 — 1970, 1951 — 1960, 1941 — 1950, 1931 — 1940, 1921 — 1930, 1911 — 1920, 1901 — 1910, 1851 — 1900, 1801 — 1850, Before 1801
Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, people, survived and/or attempts:
“I made a list of things I have
to remember and a list
of things I want to forget,
but I see they are the same list.”
—Linda Pastan (b. 1932)
“A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.”
—Eugene J. McCarthy (b. 1916)
“There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)