Quotes About Survival

I've read Flowers in the Attic and The Other Side of Midnight and Go Ask Alice and I don't want to read any more books where the girl dies in the end.

I don't know why, but whenever I'd look at Amber, all determined and long-legged, I'd imagine her climbing out of a car wreck while the slow, sluggish passengers burned inside.

Children, who have so much to learn in so short a time, had involved the tendency to trust adults to instruct them in the collective knowledge of our species, and this trust confers survival value. But it also makes children vulnerable to being tricked and adults who exploit this vulnerability should be deeply ashamed.

Being in a five-by-seven every day for 365 days a year is more than what the average man could stand. You weren't built to be in a cage that long.

It's life or death for me every single time I step in the cage.

I think my big break was getting out of Richmond, California, alive.

I didn't know anything about breast cancer when I got it.

My cancer continues to make for all kind of hilarity.

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

My mother has battled breast cancer three times.

The idea is that if we can put our own people through something almost as bad as what they might have to go through if they were taken captive, they will inoculate themselves.

You go through different emotions when you're in captivity. On the one hand you say, my career is over. On the other hand, you say, my career's just started. See with these weird extreme ideas of where you are based on this capture.

I have had PTSD since I was in a car accident when I was 16.

For many impoverished people, living under a tarp or in a cardboard box is a way of life.

I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.

If I had to pick one scary movie, I'd go with John Carpenter's 'The Thing.' That's probably number one.

I got bullied so much at 11 and 12 that I became the bully. I didn't want to get bullied no more. And that just carried on through my life.

There is risk everywhere. Being alive carries the risk of death.

The story of cats is a story of meat.

I had breast cancer. I caught it early.

I had nothing in my cell. Most of the time I recited the Quran. The rest of the time I was speaking to myself and thinking about my life and the worst-case scenarios that could happen to me.

The fact that I am still alive after 100,000 laps is my championship.

If you just sit on what you've created, chances are you're not going to be around much longer.

If you run from a bear, it'll chase you. And they can run fast.