Quotes About Survival

It's weathered many a storm, but the British film industry is, thankfully, still afloat.

Most spiders eat and remake their webs every night.

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.

Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought.

I don't think there is an era of autocuties. I think if there is such a thing as an autocutie they weed themselves out because they can't hack it.

Our bodies and minds evolved and were adapted for hundreds of thousands of years for tasks like climbing a tree and picking apples, or hunting rabbits, or looking for mushrooms in the forest. They were not adapted to the very gruelling work that is involved in field work - ploughing, harvesting, bringing water, digging weeds - things like that.

On an exhausted field, only weeds grow.

No one can pretend to say that a fish is ever killed by heat, for many kinds of fish, in the middle of summer, and in the burning heat of the sun, do either play, as it were, on the surface of the water, or hide themselves under the leaves, weeds, or other substances at the bottom.

I like weeds and hardy plants.

I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.

An adult human can last 40 days without food, a week without any sleep, three days without water, but only five minutes without air. Yet nothing is more taken for granted than the air we breathe. However, not just any air will do - it must be exquisitely designed to meet our needs. Too little oxygen in the atmosphere will kill us, as will too much.

I have survived so long because I've been blessed with talented and gracious colleagues and with a top brass who let me choose my topics every week and then allowed me to express opinions that were not always popular. Well, someone had to stand up to the yackety-yak soccer cult.

Football is only once a week. NASCAR is once a week. Those sports are insanely popular. Horse racing is oversaturated. Unless tracks cut back to three days a week of full fields, a lot of people will really hurt down the road. Horse racing, to survive, has to go to that. Let's face it: Churchill Downs only does well on Derby Week.

I survived because I never took on big responsibilities in my private life. In the early days, I lived on two or three pounds a week and learned to cook - and I'm a good cook - because I had to. Even when I went on holiday, I stayed in other people's houses.

I was born the year the Troubles began, in 1968. That world of violence was all I knew - people murdered, maimed, kneecapped, bombed. I don't remember a time without a major atrocity of some kind every week.

Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on your doorstep - not once in a blue moon, but once a month or a week or a day.

The books that stuck with me most as a child were 'A Wrinkle In Time', 'Dracula', 'Hatchet', 'Bunnicula', 'White Fang', and this YA/kids' book called 'Nobody's Fault' where a kid drowns one weekend as friends play around a flooded ditch.

When I was ten and in fifth grade, I read all of 'Robinson Crusoe' in one weekend.

Those years when Poland was occupied by the Nazis was one of the darkest time in Poland's history.

I'd rather write about polar bears than people.

Man, a polar bear almost grabbed me once.

In the grand scheme of things, polar bears are the least of our problems when it comes to climate change.

I was knocked down and dragged by a police Land Rover in a hit-and-run.

My policy is to do the least amount to get by.