Quotes About Survival

Barefoot, exhausted and bloody, Harris Borden turned and left the underground prison that had been his home for the past twelve years and walked out into the Nevada desert.

When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.

Of the approximately 2,900 Jewish Nasielskers who remained in Poland, fewer than ten survived the war.

Alexei and Anastasia are barely alive. The others are dead

not all the bullets penetrated her body where the gems were sewn into her clothing." The nun nodded. "They saved her from being killed instantly." She indicated tight columns of gems woven inside the corset lining. "It's probably why Alexei didn't die at first. No doubt they were sewn into his clothing, too." Boyle took the corset and examined the fabric. "Will she make it?

Severe early childhood trauma creates a child with equally intense coping mechanisms—these children are often seen as "mature for their age" and "old souls." While maybe true, it often negates the fact that their innocence was taken away at an early age and they are in survival mode. —Azia Archer

2)"Even though this planet is round, there are just too many spots where you can find yourself hanging on to the edge just like I was; and unless there's some space, some place, to take a breather for awhile, the edge of the world- frightening as it is- could be the end of the world, which would be quite a pity." (28).

I also noticed that humor was even more of a survival tactic here than in most women's groups. As one asked: What did Columbus call primitive? Answer: Equal women.

Wilma said many Native people believed that the earth as a living organism would just one day shrug off the human species that was destroying it— and start over. In a less cataclysmic vision, humans would realize that we are killing our home and each other, and seek out The Way. That's why Native people were guarding it.

For me, those weeks in Boston, with Wilma, became a lesson in her ability to be "of good mind," in her phrase, which also meant a people's ability to survive.

I thank him for surviving—and teaching.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

I am the last leaf on the tree, and the wind is blowing.

Back in the days of the great Depression, an old sign dangled by one staple from a piece of rusting barbed wire. The owner of the farm had written: 'Burned out by drought, Drowned out by flud waters, Et out by jack-rabbits, Sold out by sheriff, STILL HERE.

great mysteries that the Poles have been able to keep their language, culture and religion alive despite inhabiting an area which has usually belonged to either Germany, Russia or Austria, or sometimes to all three.

America is me. It gave me the only life I know—so I must share in its survival. Look at me. Listen to me.

It was the centuries-old battle of man to keep his race alive and push forward into the future, the ceaseless, furious struggle of that beastlike, god-like—primitive, sophisticated—savage and civilized—composite organism that was the human race fighting to endure and push onward. Onward, and up, and up again, until the impossible was achieved, all barriers were broken, all pains conquered, all abilities possessed. Until all was lightning and no darkness left.

If what are miscalled the lower animals were as silly as man is, they would all perish from the earth in a year.

Better to have bad breath than no breath at all.

A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes.

Necessity is the mother of not only invention but death.

The desert is a scorpion's tale of stings and survival.

I am much more than one emotion. An emotion is something that comes, stays for some while, and will have to go away. I don't have to die just because of one emotion. I know I can handle an emotion with the practice of mindful deep breathing. I have survived emotions before.

A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope.