Quotes About Survival

If things got really bad at Grandpa's, I figured, my mother and I could live alongside Shelter Rock. We could sleep under the canopy and cook our meals over an open fire, and though it would be rough, how much rougher could it be?

Bread and water will not break me, and if you choose to isolate me, I shall have only but more time to plot against my oppressors.

affective feelings help animals to better identify events in the world that are either biologically useful or harmful and to generate adaptive responses to many life-challenging circumstances

Those who stalked us as their prey paid little heed to the hour; the sun rose above gangs of kidnappers who grabbed free men and women off the street in broad daylight and sold them elsewhere to be consumed, digested, and excreted from the bowels of the republic.

Unfortunately, there's no test of compatibility to see how couples will survive together, despite what they say on those online dating sites. There's always a risk you take when you agree to spend the rest of your life with someone.

I can't believe we survived that." "I can't believe how you can fight." "I was scared to death. I hardly knew what I was doing." Jason shook his head. "I'd hate to fight you when you did know what you were doing.

They just hoped to survive, and maybe to be the heroes that young men and women dream of being before they become old enough and experienced enough to realize that real glory never comes to those who seek it. They

Three Sips of Gin,

Gunfights aren't static events and perfecting the skill of shooting while moving could mean the difference between life and death.

Full mag in the gun and one more in the vest.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter." —Ernest Hemingway

The reason each and every one of us is alive today is the martial prowess and hunting abilities of our ancestors.

For those who have lived their lives in a constant state of hypervigilance, as our DNA dictates is necessary to survive and prevail at the tip of the spear, identifying a new mission in a postmilitary life can be a daunting task; the team is family, the team is purpose, the team is home.

Fire had once provided safety to those who stood within its sphere, warding off tigers, leopards, and bears. Now that light from the burning vehicle was the death knell for those it illuminated.

S. Rainsford.

Their loss-of-comms link-up point was just a mile to the southeast. There was no sign of any other human life.

Selous Scouts

I can lose my hands, and still live. I can lose my legs and still live. I can lose my eyes and still live. I can lose my hair, eyebrows, nose, arms, and many other things and still live. But if I lose the air I die. If I lose the sun I die. If I lose the earth I die. If I lose the water I die. If I lose the plants and animals I die. All of these things are more a part of me, more essential to my every breath, than my so-called body. What is my real body?

Why do you breathe, eat, sleep, make love, and reproduce your kind? Because it's your function, your reason for being. There's no other reason, and none needed.

The women at Dachau knew they were about to be gassed when they pushed back the Nazi guard who wanted to die with them, saying he must live. And sang for a little while after the doors closed.

As sworn enemies, bacteria and viruses have been duking it out for billions of years

Only two out of every ten men born in Russia in 1923 survived the Second World War.

Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find anything else to eat. Amazingly, they can consume up to 95% of their own bodyweight and still survive.

The diet of mountain goats lacks an important ingredient - salt. With this in mind, goats seek out areas where it is present to lick, such as a piece of ground or particularly salty rock. However once they discovered that human urine is quite salty, they started hanging out around areas in which people were camping, waiting for a man to unbutton his flies, and would then run up to him and start drinking his pee.