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Quotes About Survival

a Veracruz lo llaman el "Jardín de Aclimatación": si sobrevives en esa ciudad, sobrevives en cualquier lugar de México-.
~ Fernando Del Paso
Food keeps us alive, as we all know. Nourishment allows us to grow and be healthy. But good cooking takes us beyond survival and into the realms of culture and pleasure.
~ Fernando Divina
La vida es un puñetazo en el estómago.
~ Fernando Vallejo
nosotros viviendo una realidad de película: desquitándoles por un lado a los impuestos, por el otro a las balas perdidas de un atraco o a la furia de un chofer.
~ Fernando Vallejo
Otros dos niños de pocos años se arrastraban, semidesnudos, por esta vida y el piso de tierra.
~ Fernando Vallejo
Como el impuesto de guerra lo que nos resultó fue el impuesto de la derrota, ahora estrenamos gobierno con el impuesto de la paz. ¿La paz un impuesto? O sea, como quien dice, que aquí pagamos porque estamos vivos y pagamos porque estamos muertos.
~ Fernando Vallejo
Teresita Pisano era de un inquebrantable optimismo: se le moría el marido y decía: "Me quedan mis hijos"; se le morían los hijos y decía: "Me quedan mis nietos" se le morían los nietos y decía: "Me queda el televisor".
~ Fernando Vallejo
El pleno derecho de existir sólo lo pueden tener los viejos. Los niños tiene que probar primer que lo merecen: sobreviviendo.
~ Fernando Vallejo
la pizzeria Sbarro, dove fra gli altri una famiglia di cinque persone, dalla mamma al più piccino, fu sbranata dalla bomba indossata da una donna poi esaltata come grande eroina, madre e terrorista;
~ Fiamma Nirenstein
'Twas founded be th' Puritans to give thanks f'r bein' presarved fr'm th' Indyans, an'… we keep it to give thanks we are presarved fr'm th' Puritans.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
The Puritans gave thanks for being preserved from the Indians, and we give thanks for being preserved from the Puritans.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
Militant nationalism needed regular transfusions of young blood to keep it alive, because it led a kind of vampiric half-life, imaginatively and emotionally draining but not visible in any mirror held up to contemporary Irish reality.
~ Fintan O'Toole
If you survived then you were all right; no - lucky. What problems? You're alive! She wanted more than survival. She wanted beauty; she wanted love; she wanted abundance.
~ Fiona Wood
Regarding Girl Scout Camp survival skills: "For instance, if I see a snake, I should stand still or walk backwards slowly, never run. I am one hundred percent sure I will not do that. But now, while running as fast as I can, I will be thinking, I shouldn't be running.
~ Firoozeh Dumas
Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.
~ Flannery O'Connor
If you don't hunt it down and kill it, it will hunt you down and kill you.
~ Flannery O'Connor
The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
~ Flip Wilson
While not averse to commercial enterprise, he viewed the exploitation of information to the detriment of those human values as a threat to the wealth of nations, to their security, and to their very survival, and he called for the "unhampered exchange" of knowledge and information in every form.
~ Flo Conway
And as the Cherokee walked farther from his mountains, he began to die.
~ Forrest Carter
Despoilers obey the Malthusian law; they multiply with the means of existence, and the means of existence of knaves is the credulity of their dupes.
~ Frederic Bastiat
Li?u em có s?ng sót n?i sau c?n kh?ng ho?ng tu?i trung niên c?a anh không?
~ Frédéric Beigbeder
Esta espera de la carta desconocida y que sobrevive a todo, ¡qué signo es de que la esperanza no se ha perdido y de que queda siempre entre nosotros esa semilla!
~ Francois Mauriac
And yet, Zion has risen up again out of the crematoria and the slaughterhouses.
~ Francois Mauriac
Baste! enough! I sup, I wet, I humect, I moisten my gullet, I drink, and all for fear of dying. Drink always and you shall never die.
~ Francois Rabelais