Quotes About Survival

I was diagnosed with lupus, and I've been through chemotherapy.

In 2007, I was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Shortly before I turned 37 and my older daughter turned 3, I was diagnosed with breast cancer: stage III of IV.

I had a choice whether to live or die, and I chose to live.

I almost died, secretly, behind closed doors.

A lot of people thought I'd died, because of your coverage, they know I'm still around.

In my novel, 'First Blood,' Rambo died. In the films, he lives.

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

We're not like Alice In Chains where somebody dies and the band breaks up.

I got used to interrogators asking me the same things. Before the interrogator even moves his lips I knew his questions, and as soon as he or she started to talk I turned my 'tape' on.

I'm not convinced that Nixon would have survived in office if he'd burned the tapes, but I do believe he would have served out his presidency if he'd never made them in the first place.

My nickname was Tarzan: I found my food in the jungle; I hunted birds.

The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.

That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.

A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.

When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.

I will make the argument that we are poorly adapted to our current environment. I mean, we did not evolve to sit all day and be exposed to giant amounts of really tasty food.

My father taught me how to hunt.

I've made more millions than I can count. But you know, it's a faerie gold - the tax people take most of it, and the rest goes to people you need to stay alive, places to live, conveyances to get from here to there.

I think the word for me is survival, not ambition. I'm really a lucky man. I've always accepted whatever I was in, whether it was driving a taxi or entertaining. The jet set might not enjoy what I do, but I deal with the average person.

I'm not sure how I'd survive without English Breakfast tea. Even in the Caribbean, I must drink 20 cups a day.

It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it.

'Salaam Bombay' didn't put a halo on the poor. Instead, it said that they will teach us how to live.