Quotes About Survival

A city built on rivers and bituminous coal, Pittsburgh in the '90s has survived the boom and bust years.

I've been married a couple of times and survived!

Faced with destruction, the Jewish people survived.

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

I'm not the only one; most people's mothers are the most influential person in their life. But my mother survived the camps, and she was very strong. She made me strong, but she wanted me to be strong. That's more important.

As a child, I'd help my mum cook, and it was ridiculous - she had the correct gadget or utensil for everything. 'Stop! Don't use that, I have exactly the right utensil.' After I left home, I survived on cup-a-meals and never saw myself as being like her. Now I've become her.

The power organisation of Israel gives what they can to fight me, to cause me some harm, damages in health, mind, and they succeed little bit, but I survived and I am now free, but it was very hard - a very difficult time - and I wish no one would suffer what I suffered, and then when I speak to you and try to be human being like everyone.

When I was 23, I went to Alaska by myself into the glaciers of the coast range and climbed a mountain by myself. It was incredibly reckless, incredibly stupid. But I was lucky. And I survived, and I came back to tell my story.

Jimmy Boggs was born in a little town called Marion Junction, Alabama, where there were as many pigs, or more pigs, than even the people. But you know what? People in the South had an understanding that you could make a way out of no way, and that's how they survived.

I know and live with the real Dilip Kumar. He is a simple man, hard working, who has survived time.

In the necessary memorialisation of the six million dead, there had been precious little attention paid to those who survived and how they survived.

I was in Congress for six months, and they put me on blood pressure medication. I flew helicopters in combat and I was fine, and I survived 13 months in recovery in the hospital... I got to Congress, and six months later I'm on blood pressure medication. Fourteen months later, they doubled the dosage!

It's a human desire to be scared. On some level, that's how we survived - that sense of fear and danger. Our lives are much safer, so we gravitate to those stories that makes us feel those things and learn lessons, even if it's just, 'What are you doing? Don't go in the basement!'

Travelgate eventually faded, and the nation somehow survived - American exceptionalism at work again.

I want to share the things I've done, the things I've survived, the things I've struggled through.

Our democracy has survived for so many years in India. We should at least give credit to the Congress for that.

Without my experiences on the likes of 'Lost' and 'Alias,' I don't know if I would have survived 'Rogue One.'

When I started going to school, I started getting used to things, like the language. After that, I started adapting to school, friends, and everything. It was really difficult, to start with, but I survived.

The one amazing thing about 'Jack' is that I did it in 2001, you know, and it still survived. There's something about it that's connected with people.

The values transmitted through oral history are many - courage, selflessness, the ability to endure, and to do so with humor and grace. I got those values listening to my dad's stories about the Depression and how their family survived. It gave me courage that I, too, could survive hard times.

As a species, we would not have survived without humor.

As a child, I lived through and survived the segregated South. I sat at the back of the bus at a time when America wasn't yet as great as it could be.

I've survived. I've beaten my own bad system, and on some days, on most days, that feels like a miracle.

Having money is better than not having it, but I've been poor, and I've survived.