Quotes About Survival

The randomness of what had been destroyed and what had survived bothered him nearly as much as the destruction itself. He

Music. Wine. A cigar. The small luxuries of life are how we survive what the mind can't fathom." "You sound like you do a lot of thinking in your shop," Pino said, wiping the sweat from his eyes. Luigi laughed. "A lot of thinking. A lot of talking. A lot of reading. It is . . ." The joy left his voice. "It was my home.

shallows, grabbed the bow rope, and held on for dear life. "Give me

Malia said, "And where were you when the mortar hit?" The rapture drained out of the corporal's face. His face clouded. His hand dropped from his heart and grabbed the bottle of honey wine. After pouring a generous slug into his mouth, he swallowed it, shivered, and stared at them all with a haunted expression. "Stalingrad," he said. "The Elbow of the Don.

Every human has that basic, God-given right, Pino, and you feared for your life.

It is a tragedy that your Anna died that way, but you had the right to survive. Every human has that basic, God-given right, Pino, and you feared for your life.

When you can remember not having eaten in days and having no hope of eating tomorrow . . . when you can remember that feeling, you just work harder to make sure you never feel it again.

I saved myself," Pino whispered. "He kind of came along for the ride.

It all made Pino realize that the earth did not know war, that nature would go on no matter what horror one man might inflict on another. Nature didn't care a bit about men and their need to kill and conquer

Awww, well, my young friend, how can you survive what life throws at you if you cannot laugh and love, and are they not the same thing?

People are dying and you're playing music?" Several people came into the hallway behind his mother, including his aunt, uncle, and father. Michele said, "Music is how we survive such times, Pino.

Your father is a wise man," the cigar trader said. "Music. Wine. A cigar. The small luxuries of life are how we survive what the mind can't fathom.

Pino took one last look at the Beltraminis before walking south toward the telephone exchange, feeling like the blast had cut out part of his heart.

It's where they take every Jew they catch in Milan. Platform Twenty-One in the central station. They put them into cattle cars, and they disappear, bound for . . . no one knows. They don't come back.

Music is how we survive such times,

Pino realize that the earth did not know war, that nature would go on no matter what horror one man might inflict on another. Nature didn't care a bit about men and their need to kill

The simple fact is this: when you goto Alaska, you get your ass kicked.

The silence was loud, like a scream. I could FEEL [the aliens] outside./ [The aliens'] patience was their strength. Humans measure time in minutes, seconds, MICROSECONDS./ Time never really mattered to the alien only SURVIVAL./ God help me. I was beginning to UNDERSTAND [the aliens].

If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will let you alone.

Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.

And the last thought he had that morning as he closed his eyes was: I hope the tornado hit the moose.

In this world only the paranoid survive.

I only speak a little pigeon French. Just enough to get by with the little French pigeons.

One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else.