Quotes About Survival

You have to keep going or this industry will roll over you and leave you for dead.

If you don't have dialysis, absolutely, you will die. Dialysis is actually keeping me alive.

It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.

You kick a dog long enough, that dog is going to bite you or die.

The game is definitely evolving. It's becoming more guard-oriented. But, at the same time, we've got a lot of big guys who still kick butt. We'll never be extinct.

I lost my father when I was four, so maybe that was always in the background. Losing my brother kicked it into overdrive. When you get to such an intense place of suffering, you either have the choice to continue suffering or figure a way not to.

Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result.

My school was pretty tough, and I played football there so I would be accepted, to save myself a kicking.

I'm still here and kicking and, you know, I have all my limbs so you'll never hear me complain.

For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped.

And when 9/11 came, that was open season to violate human rights. And that's how I was kidnapped.

My daughters have grown up knowing all about my kidnapping and the case and what happened.

I am fighting kidney cancer. And I'm just so grateful that I had health insurance so that I could concentrate on the care that I needed rather than how the heck I was going to afford the care that was going to probably save my life.

I fought COVID double bilateral pneumonia - both lungs - and kidney failure in my house.

My name is Kim Phuc, though you likely know me by another name. It is one I never asked for, a name I have spent a lifetime trying to escape: 'Napalm Girl.'

I did all kinds of things in order to earn a living.

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

The fathers, if they got me alone, would try to kiss and fondle me. I hated it.

There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

I didn't think I was going to die. I knew some did. I knew there were some rumors.

If this is the end of the world, give me a fork and a knife.

You live by the gun and knife, and die by the gun and knife.

My second bout with Cro Cop was the hardest. I had a serious injury in my eye during the fight and he knocked me out in the second round. I think it was the closest I've been to death.