Quotes About Survival

You can't kill history. You can't shoot it with a bullet and watch it recede into whatever lies outside of memory. History is tougher than that—if it's going to die, it has to die on its own

The history of America is the history of a genocide that didn't end yet, the genocide of American civilizations.

When you read enough stories about people who have been through different levels of trauma, and it doesn't matter what the history is, trauma is trauma, there's always this freeing of the spirit.

If homes are going to survive, it will be because husbands and fathers again place their families at the highest level on their system of priorities.

Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.

My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me.

More than anything, it was the blue dolphins that took me back home.

When you start you're trying to achieve staying alive and getting home. If you can do both of those, then you stand a chance of breaking the record.

For a lot of people, the weekly paycheck is "take-home pay" because home is the only place they can afford to go with it.

Most homeless kids are on the streets because they have been forced by circumstances that cause them to think that they are safer there than in any home they once knew.

Left right left right. We're army ants. We swarm we fight. We have no home. We roam. We race. You're lucky if we miss your place.

Wildlife needs wilderness-not just to survive, but also to live freely. Sadly, many species struggle to survive due to increased human activity and expansion into habitats they call home.

I've been half-frozen for so long, it is as though the winter has set up home in my marrow.

I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.

My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.

If the bears don't get you, it's home.

The day I was born, my house burnt down; the day I left home, the Twin Towers burnt down; and I lived in a jungle in India at 15.

Personally, I don't like watching films about victims - people where you're meant to think, 'Oh, this is terrible,' and you go home feeling really depressed.

I'll never forget what it was like to hold my wife and children again, to know that I was home, to know that I had managed to survive.

I've been followed home late at night. I've been shot at on the highway.

I don't think I'd really be alive without it, in all honesty.

If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.

I don't get tired, because every time a woman doesn't die or doesn't get beaten or doesn't get raped or doesn't get honor-killed or doesn't get acid-burned, it's a huge victory.

When honor dies—when trust is a useless thing—what use is life?