Quotes About Survival

In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.

We want to show the world Haiti can endure.

I know a lot of people that had one cancer that are not alive today. I've had three. So my glass is much more than half full.

Pain is handed down from one generation to the next.

It's important for survival that children have their own experiences, the kind they learn from. The kind their parents arrange for are not as useful. Good parents are the hardest to get rid of.

In the end, the war in Vietnam was much like any other. There were those who profited. Those it devoured. And then there were those for whom there are no words.

It's the time to run away an' hide under the bed, an' hope the world's still in one piece when you come out again.

The urge to fight, to maul, to murder: it is the greatest cancer that afflicts mankind. It obliterates the body of the victim, and the spirit of the the one who strikes the blow. I have seen it...

But we survived, didn't we? That makes it an adventure. If you get killed it's a tragedy.

Since being a prisoner was a definite improvement over being dead, which was what she thought was going to happen when the Loundergs had attacked, Suzy was quite cheerful.

Lirael left in a daze of happiness. She had survived the ordeal. She had been accepted. She was going to be a librarian!

In general, one cannot go back. But in going forward, you may achieve some of what you desired of the past. If you can survive, anything may happen. - The Old One

People have an infinite capacity for rationalization when it comes to refusing to face the threat to America's survival.

No siempre podemos cambiar las circunstancias, pero podemos sobrevivir si nos sentimos amados.

We all need support, in the workplace and beyond it. When we both give and receive, we stand a much better chance of survival.

Steven Covey, author of the bestselling The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, feels so strongly about people's need for appreciation that he states: "Next to physical survival, the greatest need of a human being is psychological survival, to be understood, to be affirmed, to be validated, to be appreciated."1

Love is not only realistic, but our only hope of survival.

Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.

what oral historian Studs Terkel called "a Monday through Friday kind of dying.

Restoring a sense of mission and vision for the future is a crucial challenge that must be accomplished if the church has any chance of survival. Calling the congregation back to the mission of the church and developing a new vision for the future is essential.

He had learned this: Nothing that lived, nothing that walked or crawled or flew or swam or slithered or oozed—nothing, not one thing on God's earth wanted to die. No matter what people thought or said about chickens or fish or cattle—they all wanted to live.

If his mother hadn't begun to see him and forced the divorce, Brian wouldn't be here now. He

He was not the same. The plane passing changed him, the disappointment cut him down and made him new. He was not the same and would never be again like he had been. That was one of the true things, the new things. And the other one was that he would not die, he would not let death in again.

This is the final book about Brian