Quotes About Survival

A year's worth of Social Security for an individual is not considered to be below the poverty level, and yet we know that would be extraordinarily tough to live on.

Being homeless is like living in a post-apocalyptic world. You're on the outskirts of society.

But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you.

I, Maggie, personally cannot tell you that you're going to save the planet. But what I do know is that we can draw a line to an issue that can conserve what we already have and what's left in a way that we can actually breathe the air, drink the water, actually grow things in soil - that matters in a real, practical way.

We go to learn about our solar system, to search for life, and to understand what happened to Mars so we avoid it ourselves.

They said if you are in China you have to be sold, you have to get married. And something that still saddens me is that I actually didn't care, I was so hungry.

I was a bartender, a hot-dog vendor, a cook, sold magazine subscriptions.

I thought, if I go to China, I might find food to eat. The only reason to escape was to find a bowl of rice. And I was trafficked and sold in China.

I've worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.

I was a single mother, and my boys were babies. I sold my body for food, money, and Pampers.

I was an artist - I fancied myself an artist - I sold paintings at bars to pay my rent.

I never thought, in my life, I'd be sold. It's painful to say, as a human, 'I was sold.'

When I was a young boy I sold newspapers by the side of the road. I cleaned the shoes of people for less than a pound a time. I was 12 years old but I had to do it to eat because my family was so poor.

My mum was sold for $65 and I was sold for $260 - at the age of 13.

I was a slave. I was sold in China in 2007 as a child at 13 years old.

I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.

There's no pride in having been a child soldier.

In 'Falling Skies,' I was playing a soldier and a fighter, and then, when I was taken captive, you're still in this post-apocalyptic world.

The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.

I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers.

A lot of child soldiers lose their minds.

You know, once something freezes, it's solid. That's the key to the arctic - they didn't fear the cold, they made use of it.

I was so deep in red ink coming out of ECW that I had to make a good solid living just to get my nose above the water line because of ECW.

I have recurring nightmares about being in a Nazi concentration camp with all my family and constantly being sent to solitary confinement.