Quotes About Survival

You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here.

I think there was a reason God helped me escape... and I don't take my freedom for granted.

I'm eternally grateful to the penal system in California for saving my life.

I'm almost shocked that I'm still around after all of these years... and always grateful that I get another turn to do something.

Whenever people are faced with any sort of adversity... they tend to gravitate toward things that make them comfortable, and things that they feel are important.

A great American city is fighting for its life.

I've lived through the Great Depression.

I thought 'I Am Legend' did a really great job of it, and 'Omega Man,' that concept of an empty world.

I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.

The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

Rumors of the American demise... have been greatly exaggerated.

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

You and I probably wouldn't be here if our ancestors hadn't been greedy savages.

I grew up in London, a city devastated by the bombing. I am, you might say, a Blitz Baby.

This is going to sound really crude, but I lost my fingers in a meat grinder.

Buy groceries and feed yourself, even on the road.

Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.

My grandfather died when I was 14, and he was in Bergen-Belsen and Dachau. So be grateful for your life because nothing is guaranteed. Everything could literally be taken away from you tomorrow.

I guess if you stay around long enough, they can't get rid of you.

I had a gun and I had to run and shoot, which is not easy.

If you look down a barrel of a gun... you don't forget it.

I've got a scar on my shin from when I got shot in New York when I was 17. I was outside a McDonald's and somebody shot a gun from a car, and the bullet grazed my leg.

I think everyone envisions what their life would be like if they were to live in this post-apocalyptic world. I love the idea of fighting every day to live, because it kind of applies to gymnastics; I feel like every day I need to be in control and focused and stay on edge.

My perspective is the Earth will be here. It just may not be habitable to our life form. We get confused. We think we're the center of everything.