Quotes About Survival

Nothing like not dying to make you feel alive.

Will the waters be rising soon? The waters will be rising soon. Find someone or something to cling to.

Plan B?' Ivy said. 'What is plan B?' Jenks reddened. 'Grab the fish and run like hell,' he muttered, and I almost giggled.

As the joke goes, you don't have to be faster than the wolf chasing you, just faster than everyone else running away.

I was cold, hungry, and in a hole in the ground. But at least I had my elven porn, damnit!

He kept thinking about Uncle Austin, how he taught him to build a fire in the rain, to sharpen a knife, to regard ten cords of wood as money in the bank, to read the wind and tides with intention, to catch a fish, to build a snare, to live off the land and sea and not just survive, but thrive; to know a thousand things with animal senses—to be smart, strong, sensual, alive, more alive than you'll ever be indoors.

This Is My America is a piece of fiction; if this story were true, there wouldn't be an immediate happy ending for the Beaumonts. They would continue to live in the same society, combating racial prejudice and inequality – with all the disadvantages and stains of post-prison survival and recovery.

I write so the endangered thoughts roaming naked and vulnerable through the misty jungles of my mind aren't slain by the guns of practical living.

Eliminate one species, and another increases in number to take its place

The Swiss Family Robinson.

We'd escaped. Mam, Hitlers bombs, my one-room prison. Everything. Crazy or not, I was free.

While the official church was moribund, the house churches kept alight the flame of Christian witness. The church survived as a lay movement, often led by poorly educated Bible women who memorized Scripture and passed on the faith to family members and (if they dared) to neighbors and friends.

With the Gaelic coffee, surmounted by half an inch or so of chilled cream, he felt his survival till breakfast guaranteed.

But my father's is closest. (Emily) A wounded hawk doesn't bed down in a fox's den. (Draven)

We all survive. We all go home. We are brothers unto the end. (Brotherhood Creed)

Hello. (Serenity) I've killed over a hundred men. Half of them I kill for simply saying hello. (Ushakii)

Cookie didn't dare light a fire, so we have cold food this evening. (Morgan) Yum. Hard-boiled wood, my favorite. (Serenity)

The environment near Gargantua will become more dangerous for individual life forms, including humans, promoting faster evolution if enough individuals survive.

His lines had been honed over centuries, passed down through generations, for poor people needed certain lines; the script was always the same, and they had no option but to beg for mercy.

They should have killed for water, the men and women of the CWD chawls. People have been known to kill for less: religion; language; the flag; the colour of a person's skin or his caste; breaking the queue at a petrol pump.

homestead fires were fed with dried buffalo

This stuff changes people. I just watched my best friend flip out and try to kill me not a couple days ago. I'd never seen anyone act like that...let alone him. I was so shaken by seeing the change in him I almost didn't even realize the danger I was in. I think we've got some good people here...I think we're getting by okay...but honestly...I just don't know what anyone's thinking. To me, that's scarier than any half-rotten ghoul trying to eat my flesh.

Once in a while, it's going to be us or them.

Sometimes there's nothing but force that will get the job done, and the more force we bring to the equation, the better our odds of survival will be.