Quotes About Survival

From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.

On peut mourir de faim ou de froid, mais si l'on en réchappe, on oublie son mal. Quand on n'aurait souffert qu'un seul jour de la honte, on en meurt toute sa vie.

The destruction of Black males for the purpose of white genetic survival is the reason behind the ever-increasing disparity between the number of Black females entering and graduating from high schools and institutions of higher education compared to the far lesser number of Black males.

Ordinary life did not stop just because kings rose and fell, Mosca realized. People adapted. If the world turned upside down, everyone ran and hid in their houses, but a very short while later, if all seemed quiet, they came out again and started selling each other potatoes.

It is terribly bad form to admit to being terrified for one's life, but nobody in their right mind would go to a Court banquet without making preparations. One must have the right costume, the right Faces, and at least eighty-two ways of avoiding assassination.

People were animals, and animals were nothing but teeth. You bit first, and you bit often. That was the only way to survive.

Well, they set spiders and snakes on me for a bit and blew me up and there was this really scary cake, but it's mostly all right now, I think. Except I don't ever want any more cake. Look!

Well, you will have to do. If you had died along with your mother, I would have taught the cat to read.

Lost: one bonnet, two clogs. Kept in spite of the odds: two thumbs, one life.

I got all my limbs," Mosca answered quickly. "I been knocked and scraped and chased about but my heart's still beating inside my hide.

You are dust, her eyes said. You are dirt. You are nothing. Why do you bother surviving? Why are you still alive? I am the dust in your eyes was the answer in Hathin's look. I am the dirt that will bury you. I am the nothingness waiting to open up under your feet. And I can hold on longer than you can.

I'm never telling the truth again! It gets you hanged and locked out and starved and froze and hated . . .

His gaze made her feel like a mouse in owl-country.

N?jak p?ežijeme. A budeme se snažit dát tomuhle novému sv?tu podobu, dokud je ješt? tvárný. Když to neud?láme my, tak to ud?lají ti druzí.

Humans living and dead might suddenly turn on you, but wild things just lived on in their brute, wild way, caring nothing for you. When they died, they left no ghosts.

I'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn't still be here if it weren't for them.

From the moment a child is born, the death process, and the fight against it, begins.

New Agers are terrified of their own mortality, and they want to believe that somehow the soul will survive. Of course it will, but not as they imagine.

It is only the strong Christian family unit that can survive the coming world holocaust.

If a child is to survive, he or she must know the rules of safety. If he is to be healthy, he must know the rules of health. If he is to drive a car, he must know the rules of the road. If he is to become a ball player, he must learn the rules of the game. And, contrary to popular thinking, children appreciate rules.

Spiritually, we have wandered far from the faith of our fathers . . . no nation which relegates the Bible to the background, which disregards the love of God and flouts the claims of the Man of Galilee, can long survive.

In a country where Christians were looked upon with suspicion and disfavor, a government leader said to me with a twinkle in his eye, "Christians seem to thrive under persecution. Perhaps we should prosper them, and then they would disappear.

The Bible] has survived attack of every kind. Neither barbaric vandalism nor civilized scholarship has touched it. Neither the burning of fire nor the laughter of skepticism has accomplished its annihilation. Through the many dark ages of man, its glorious promises have survived unchanged.

I don't think people can live without hope. What oxygen is to the lungs, hope is to our survival in this world. And the Bible is filled with hope.