Quotes About Survival

We were living in a tough situation, but my mother managed; she juggled. Sometimes we'd pay the light bill, sometimes we paid the phone, sometimes the gas went off.

My fight-or-flight mechanism... had served me well in Gaza, in Afghanistan, and all the places I'd been.

War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations.

There may be an evolutionary advantage for schizophrenia genes during famine.

Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior.

Sometimes you get the cynical person saying, 'Do we really need another book set in Nazi Germany?' But I think you just have to ask, 'Is this a story worth telling?'

My dad was born in 1930 in Lithuania, located in Eastern Europe. He was 9 years old when the war started, and his family was sent to the Kovno ghetto. They were soon separated and sent to the Dachau concentration camp in Germany.

I grew up in the ghetto, and the thing is when there were problems, I knew when to get away.

Very few men can fall as far as I have and come back. People see me and it's like they've seen a ghost, like I'm back from the dead.

When I was given my first gig, and I had no real appetite for a career, I just worked to get money so I could live!

I've written just about everything for the sake of putting shoes on the children's feet - and a bottle of gin in the cupboard.

I got hit a lot. I'm glad I lived through it.

I started a list of all my friends who had died of AIDS, and I stopped at 78. I think about things like that, and I'm just real glad to be here.

I'm just glad I'm still here.

Every single time I step into a ring, the same thing is on the line. Take away belts, take away money, take away glamour and fame. Ultimately, I'm fighting for one thing, and that's my life.

I believe you cannot survive in this global economy without some form of postsecondary education.

I left Cambodia when I was 12 or 13. I didn't really escape, but I needed to go away.

Life goes on if you're one of the lucky ones.

The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.

I never thought I was gonna live to 30.

You're a good example of why some animals eat their young.

I am a person who has to move. I'm like a shark - if it doesn't move, it dies. I'm in good shape.

We're not environmentally doing very good things to this planet, and we might not be around too long.

We have a good time and try not to kill each other.