Quotes About Survival

I really think truth comes from the body. When you're running for your life, you breathe differently; you talk differently.

I have lived through very difficult times.

My own family went through its own difficulties in the Cultural Revolution, perhaps in a milder form than many other people.

I mean, in rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur.

I only direct in self-defense.

My mom had to be resourceful. She grew up dirt poor in rural Louisiana.

I'm not going to disappear.

Having been raised during the war, I know very well how childhood hampered by displacement, poverty, violence, and fear looks like.

The first time I experienced war, I thought the world was ending.

My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8.

'The Walking Dead' is an extraordinary thing.

I have been extremely lucky; I am a person who is currently living with a cancer that is under control.

It sounds like an extremist thing to say, but what do people think is going to happen to human beings when there's not enough food?

When you're down and out, there's no meaner place to live than Hollywood. You can get away with your embezzlements and your lies and your murders, but you can never get away with failing.

I think we would be dead and gone if we were just mostly failing.

I lost my parents when I was fairly young.

You can survive your income falling if it's not dramatic. Your income can decrease for a long time before you start living beyond your means.

New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you.

If the racing series does not exist for a year, then it disappears in its entirety. Teams that have been operating very close to the limit just wouldn't survive. They rely on racing to generate income and to fulfill their obligations to the promoter.

My work is all about adventure and teamwork in some of the most inhospitable jungles, mountains and deserts on the planet. If you aren't able to look after yourself and each other, then people die.

That whole concept of team and teamwork and team first - that's how Israel, in my opinion, has survived in the Middle East.

There's something really interesting about how human beings just want to see animals tear each other apart, maybe because we can't do it.

They'll take everything, even your tears.

I have shed many tears of pain and indignation.