Quotes About Survival

You do learn how to cope from those who are coping.

Routine is part of coping.

Comedy is a coping mechanism, and it helps us stay alive.

You back me into a corner, I'm not going to lay down and die. I've been down that road too many years in my life.

Cancer is something that can happen to anyone, like a sportsperson who is eating right and doing his bit correctly. Cancer really takes your life away.

I'm going to try to make happy songs or some political songs, like 'A Country Boy Can Survive' - something people can get excited about.

I'm lucky on so many counts - I'm lucky to be alive.

You are going to use this courtroom to kill me? I am going to fight for my life one way or another. You should let me do it with words.

We need to learn to live with Covid.

I had five black eyes. I have a cracked rib. I have scars that are just amazing.

2020 has been crap.

My mom got shot. My dad got shot. Some of the craziest stuff. All that happened to me.

'Crocodile Dundee' is about people; it's 10 seconds about crocodiles.

The world can be very cruel.

I don't want to die until I see cancer cured.

If I hadn't left Czechoslovakia, I would have been dead.

We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops.

I think my attitude has always been to put food on the table.

When I am at a dinner table, I love to ask everybody, 'How long do you think our species might last?' I've read that the average age of a species, of any species, is about two million years. Is it possible we can have an average life span as a species? And do you picture us two million years more or a million and a half years, or 5,000?

My captors were definitely aware that what they were doing was wrong. It came out in small ways - occasionally through a show of guilt or compassion. One of the boys bought me a gift. Another used to sneak me acetaminophen tablets.

A lot of my chosen family is black and I say that unabashedly. For anyone who doesn't understand that, they just don't understand me and my generation because especially in the LGBT community, the concept of chosen family is so important and it's a survival tactic.

At heart, I'm a dude from South Central Los Angeles. We roll the way we roll because we had survival tactics; we had to learn how to adapt. That's just me.

There's nothing wrong with struggle. Anytime I look back at a difficult phase of my life and see what grew out of it - the creative survival tactics - I think that the good is way better than the bad.

I would hang out with my friends, and they would make me sing in exchange for food. I'd tag along just so I could eat. Then we would go to the park, and I'd sleep there with other homeless kids.