Quotes About Survival

From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas

A dead tree, falling, made less havoc than a live one. It seemed as though a live tree went down fighting, like an animal.

But this tree in the yard-this tree that men chopped down...this tree that they built a bonfire around, trying to burn up it's stump-this tree lived! It lived! And nothing could destroy it.

I am the last leaf on the tree, and the wind is blowing.

And here I am, strapped into a tree, a stone's throw from the biggest idiot in the games.

My family tree consists of drug dealers, thugs, and killers.

How can a guy climb trees, say "Me, Tarzan, you, Jane", and make a million?

Mud and water and the stumps of trees. In every direction that was all there was. Bodies fell, but the trees died standing up.

The flocks fear the wolf, the crops the storm, and the trees the wind.

I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve.

The strength of weak people constantly appalls me. Have you ever seen a vine kill an oak tree? Deadly.

there was not a tree on the place, only the horrible prickly pear bushes thrusting out their distorted arms as if exulting in their own nakedness.

These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we shall afflict them in all ways that we can." -- The Silmarllion, JRR Tolkien

It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how I come to know trees fear man.

A tree dances for the wind not because it enjoys it, but because it doesn't want to break.

Short stories, for me, it's like you step inside this brand new car and you drive it and you drive it into a tree and you walk away from it.

How can love survive in such a graceless age? The trust and self assurance that lead to happiness, they're the very things we kill.

For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in.

If 'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger,' how do you explain zombies?

I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.

When we are in groups, when we are surrounded by people who believe what we believe, trust emerges and our very survival and progress goes up.

This is what the Others have done to us. You can't band together to fight without trust. And without trust, there was no hope. How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.