Quotes About Survival

Our short film 'Bareilly Ki Beti' is inspired from the incident which occurred in Bareilly, where a couple while digging a grave for their stillborn found a live baby girl buried two to three feet down. She was rushed to the hospital and she survived.

Whilst filming 'Jurassic Park,' I watched a hurricane approaching the beach in Hawaii. My co-worker Laura Dern and I thought we might die, but we managed to laugh about it later.

Can anyone create an enduring business on the Web, where it's easy to build new companies, and when survival depends on the whims of fickle users? The big lesson of 'Digg' may be simply this: if someone offers you a ridiculous amount of money for a company that wasn't that hard to build, don't think twice. Take the money and run.

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.

On 'Far North,' we were always aware of being at the whim of mother nature. She's the biggest star in the film.

My folks kicked me out of the crib, so I was homeless, living out the whip.

My sister and mom are both cancer survivors. If they're going to whip it, so am I.

North Korea was pretty insane. Like the first thing my mom taught me was don't even whisper, the birds and mice could hear me. She told me the most dangerous thing that I had in my body was my tongue.

My family and I survived Hurricane Katrina in 2005; we left my grandmother's flooding house, were refused shelter by a white family, and took refuge in trucks in an open field during a Category Five hurricane. I saw an entire town demolished, people fighting over water, breaking open caskets searching for something that could help them survive.

A great white jumped into my cage when I was diving in South Africa. Half its body was in the cage, and it was snapping at me.

I can remember standing in a W.P.A. line with a gunny sack, and I remember having to buy chocolate milk instead of white because it was one cent cheaper.

I think if we can prevent a fatal disease, we should.

Most breast cancer-related deaths can be prevented through simple and painless preventive measures. A late diagnosis can result in more serious, long-term consequences.

Octopus can fish for prey while deciding what color and pattern to turn, what shape to make their bodies, be on alert for predators and aware how far away their dens are.

Horses are prey animals, and most of the other animals that I've shot are predators. If you act mellow with predators, they know that they can kill you, so they are cool, but if you work with prey, they think that you're going to kill them at any moment.

There's no such thing as good or bad dinosaurs. There are predators and prey. The T-Rex in 'Jurassic Park' took human lives and saved them. No one interpreted her as good or bad.

Life is a dangerous thing. Insecurity is the price of living.

A gun show is about like-minded people who feel as if everything has been taken away from them - jobs, money, pride.

My brokenness has made me become more primal, more instinctual.

The maximum expression of running dogs is the Iditarod. You enter a state of primitive exaltation, and you never return. You're never normal again.

When civilizations collide, it usually isn't the more primitive one that prevails.

We need to accept the principle that sometimes poor people will die just because they are poor.

We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here.

Print is not dead.