Quotes About Survival

When feeding time comes around, there is nothing a hawk likes better than a nice, fat, peaceful dove.

I myself had to grow a longer beard and Afghan clothes. I was in danger of being kidnapped by smugglers, though I didn't know it at the time.

The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival.

We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong.

The first time I was homeless was when I went to Atlanta. I was in a homeless shelter, then when I got a job I used to miss the curfew for the shelter. So I ended up sleeping outside in the streets.

War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace time.

At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.

For a finite-size system to persist in time (to live), it must evolve in such a way that it provides easier access to the imposed currents that flow through it.

Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.

They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable.

I feel no different than I felt at 99, 98 or 97. Just because you live a long time, you get all this attention. Just because you survived? Of course, I survived a lot.

I have tried my hand at bribery, blackmail, and deceit. And I've served time for everything, cept beggin on the street.

I was very tiny...I spent most of my time stuffed into lockers. Thank god for cell phones, or I'd still be there.

Human survival is something that you can't see in another person; you can see if someone has that will to survive or that will to win; you can't see that, you can only watch that evolve over time.

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.

To get anywhere, or even to live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.

The people got daily worse from the cold and the bad water, and they must all have perished if they had not discovered the port about the time they did.

Hey, any time you're throwing bodies over board it is to save yourself.

If you go back in time you'll find tribes that were essentially only concerned with their own tribal members. If you were a member of another tribe, you could be killed with impunity.

I believe in whatever gets you throught the night. [...] Night is the hardest time to be alive. For me, anyway. It lasts so long, and four A.M.knows all my secrets.

Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors.

Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that we have created.

We're living in a new Beat time, in my view. And it's very difficult for us to hang on.

Speaking as one who has abused privilege a long time, I tell you, it's great to be alive.