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Quotes About Survival

Do you realize you could have been killed? (Hunter) No, that was just a practice run. I'm thinking about trying it again because it was so. Much. Fun! What the hell do you think? (Abbie)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Every sentence, every phrase, every word has to fight for its life.
~ Crawford Kilian
The first eight years of my life, we lived in an abandoned diner - we were basically squatters.
~ Cristela Alonzo
Life doesn't retreat.
~ Dan Simmons
Life has had to deal with environmental change, especially climate change, since the beginning of its existence on Earth.
~ Daniel Botkin
Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.
~ Daniel Handler
Life has a peculiar habit -- once established, it stays. Sometimes it even thrives.
~ David Gerrold
One of the most difficult and ironic murder weapons is the life jacket.
~ Demetri Martin
Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so she could give me life. I was born out of nothing.
~ Diane von Furstenberg
Life is one damned kitten after another." Mehitabel the Alley Cat
~ Don Marquis
Any day above ground is a good one.
~ Donald E. Williams, Jr.
The girl I am now, this girl-she survived. I just needed a little help getting here.
~ Donna Freitas
I've hated cockroaches my entire life.Tweeting jokes about it helps me cope, in a way. I'm not as jumpy killing cave crickets as I used to be. I still jump plenty though.
~ Drew Magary
Everything that I do in my life is geared towards my kids and their survival and giving them the best education that I can possibly give them and the best home that I can possibly give them.
~ Dwight Henry
This is the assembly of life that took a billion years to evolve. It has eaten the storms - folded them into its genes - and created the world that created us. It holds the world steady.
~ E. O. Wilson
So, the ant way of life is very ancient and very successful. As far as human beings are concerned, we've been around for only one million years--too soon be sure.
~ E. O. Wilson
The most profound, tangible influence in my life has been my wife, Monique. I don't know that I would even be alive were it not for her, and I certainly would not be the person that I am today.
~ Edgar Winter
Absent opens a door to a view of Iraqi life we have seldom seen. With a compassionate eye Khedairi explores a community, damaged by wars and sanctions, struggling for survival.
~ Elizabeth Cox
life before the monster
~ Ellen Hopkins
The extension of life beyond Earth is the most important thing we can do as a species.
~ Elon Musk
If I shouldn't be alive When the Robins come, Give the one in Red Cravat, A Memorial crumb.
~ Emily Dickinson
Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know how to read a map and co-ordinates.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances.
~ Ernst Mach
Life's one great lesson was: Do not care. Not caring was a person's real protection.
~ Francine Pascal