Quotes About Survival

Me: What has happened to other civilizations? Oldman/Child: The Earth wanted them all dead. Me: What have we done? Oldman/Child: You have become parasites.

Me: What will the Earth eat now that the humans are gone? Themroc: The Earth must become vegetarian.

Some people die, others just run out of fuel.

But highly leveraged economies, particularly those in which continual rollover of short-term debt is sustained only by confidence in relatively illiquid underlying assets, seldom survive forever, particularly if leverage continues to grow unchecked

I want you to know I haven't put this behind me. That night sits inside me as if it were yesterday. Time passing doesn't touch it.

One goes, or we all die

You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.

Because nobody goes though life without a scar.

She had as much use for a baby as a lion has for fins.

For I was indeed a student of human nature, as every orphan and hooker and unwanted kid must be.

S)omehow I've survived again. I don't know how to stop. —Ruth

Will you be all right?" she asked How could I be? Would you be all right, I felt like screaming, if you'd just watched your family taken away, watched your entire town taken away, to be murdered . I'll never be alright.

People will do and think whatever it is they have to in order to survive.

Pioneer children were always having mishaps, but they were expected to know how to use their heads in emergencies.

Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.

There is the disease and the person, and though I am living with both, one has robbed me of the other.

You never stop thinking you might have beaten it somehow, and there were moments when we thought we had. Your husband can be dead years, and you can't stop thinking how you might have beaten it. Or how they could have left ten minutes earlier, or the next morning. Or that damn lighthouse could have flickered through the fog.

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By 1867, there were only fifty Dakota left in Minnesota.67 That year, a baby girl was born just across the Mississippi, in a little house in the Big Woods.

Their school was taught by William Masters's brother, Samuel Masters, whom the children called "Uncle Sam." He was a tall, thin, bald man with bad breath and a worrying habit of fondling girls' hands. Laura protected herself by concealing a pin in her fingers and stabbing him with it. After that, she said, he left her alone.

As Little Crow had said, 'When men are hungry, they help themselves.

The last few days, including today, of wind and dust have finished any lingering hope of wheat for us and I feel myself that we simply threw away the carefully hoarded barley seed. Hardly any hope that it had time to sprout or could survive if it had under present 'dust bowl' conditions. I always said I was the only one who could remember those dreadful days - for any practical purpose. People have simply assumed it couldn't happen again (1951)

I don't feel sorry for myself, Beck. Lots of people have shitty parents and roaches in the cabinets and stale, raw Pop-Tarts for dinner and a TV that barely works and a dad who doesn't care when his son doesn't come home during a national disaster. The thing is, I'm lucky. I had the bookstore.

Life isn't always ideal, not for most people.