Quotes About Survival

There's a real connection and respect between you and the food that you have to hunt and gather yourself.

My dad was a single father, and he was a hunter.

If your hobby is hunting, at the end of it you get to eat what you catch, which is awesome.

For me, hunting is a natural fact rather than a choice.

I love being outside, I do a lot of hunting.

Over the years, with hunting, I think what's become my favorite part of hunting is how self-sufficient I'm becoming.

I just love hunting.

But hey, controversy - well, it hasn't hurt me in 50 years.

I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter.

I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind.

A sea setting us upon the ice has brought us close to danger.

You want calamities? What about the Ice Age?

Ideology never put food on my table.

'A Long Way Gone' says something about human nature that we try, most of the time, to ignore.

I'm not considered as illegitimate as I once was. Because in a sense, I'm like lip cancer - I'm not going to go away.

The Khmer Rouge can't destroy me. I still have my imagination and am capable of making films. I am not locked up.

I never imagined while going through this horrifying illness that I would write a book or that it could ever be a movie.

In the '90s there were these great end of the world movies like 'Armageddon' and 'Deep Impact'... I always liked the idea of what people on the ground are doing, not so much the people who are trying to stop the world from ending.

Self-preservation is an important thing to me.

One of the most important things that I want for my kids is I want them to live. You know, I want them to live to see 21 and beyond.

Being here, it is just impossible to imagine what that was like, when the tsunami hit.

From my family alone, Qaddafi had imprisoned five men.

We are living in the beginning of a mass extinction and our climate is breaking down.

My childhood ended in 1942. I was 12, and for the next three years, I lived under incessant bombings. It was a life of constant fear.