Quotes About Survival

People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.

One of these days they'll be making a film where the whole human race gets wiped out in a nuclear war, but everything works out in the end.

Being a human means waking up in this world, where we all have to work and slog to put food on the table.

I lost an apartment. l became homeless for 11 months and squatted in a building on Sullivan Street in lower Manhattan.

The reality of life is, if you have a bagel shop and everybody is pouring into the doughnut shop across the street, if you want to stay in business, you start selling doughnuts.

The people that live in my hometown do not walk along the street with smiles on their faces. It is a desperate place, but I got out.

We really just live our life. We rap about our life, where we from, our city, what we've been through, from the streets to losing people to being in prison. Everything you hear is reality for us.

When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.

The streets will get you in jail.

Girl, I've seen people shot. I've smelled, like, the smell of brains. When I tell you I come from the streets, I'm not kidding.

A lot of people don't know what it's like to actually be hungry. I do. I've also slept on the streets.

I wasn't really into music. I was into the streets. I was too worried about the streets and how I was going to eat and how I was going to make the streets happen.

I lived in the streets for three years when I was a kid, and every day, I didn't know where my next meal would come from.

My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in his Brooklyn, New York neighborhood; adults standing in so called 'bread lines,' children begging in the streets.

I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.

There's really no age limit when you out there in those streets.

Growing up in the streets of Bed-Stuy, it was hard, yo.

I remember when I was in Los Angeles, and there was one of the very big earthquakes, and it was just absolute pandemonium. I mean the streets were just - people were crashing into each other, people were looting, in just a very short amount of time.

The rocky time came right after I left school. I spent a lot of time at night navigating the streets of Paris trying to find something to eat.

I had to fend for myself from the time I was 17 years old. I was a high-school dropout. I wasn't quite living on the streets, but I didn't have a lot of hope.

I don't walk the mean streets.

I was one step away from getting my life taken away, whether it was life in prison or being dead on the streets. But I was saved.

I saw worse stuff inside prison than I ever saw in the streets.

No one wants to work for little money; otherwise, they would be living on the streets.