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Quotes About Survival

Money can be a very important form of "ammunition," although we should never forget that when you're being shot at the most important ammunition is real ammunition.
~ David Petraeus
The money to be made is clearly more important than the extinctions we cause, including our own.
~ Guy R. McPherson
Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen Hey, you
~ Wilson Mizner
I grew up poor. I never had any money. I was a hobo, you know, ride the freights
~ Art Linkletter
I'm practically broke and homeless. This fatal city, Antioch, has devoured all my money: this fatal city with its extravagant life.
~ C.P. Cavafy
Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.
~ Gottfried Reinhardt
I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
~ Natalia Vodianova
If one did not have at least a little luck, one would never survive childhood. But luck can be spent, like money; and lost, like a memory; and wasted, like a life.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
We all have choices. (Astrid) No we don't, princess. Only people with money and influence have choices. For the rest of us, basic necessity dictates what we have to do to survive. (Zarek)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived and ultimately flourished.
~ Graydon Carter
To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money.
~ Henry Rollins
All right, let's not panic. I'll make the money by selling one of my livers. I can get by with one.
~ Homer
Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it.
~ Ihara Saikaku
As long as you have money to live then it's not a terribly important thing. If you don't have enough to live, then it's very important thing.
~ Jared Polis
The woman had a humble, cringing manner. Of course, she had discovered that, having neither money nor virtue, she had better be humble if she knew what was good for her.
~ Jean Rhys
Capitalism is like Japanese Knotweed: nothing kills it off. If there were only two people left on the planet, one of them would find a way of making money out of the other.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I had been practicing for the Depression a long time. I wasn't involved with loss. I didn't have money to lose, but in common with millions I did dislike hunger and cold.
~ John Steinbeck
Money is a necessity; so is dirt.
~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Money management is the only strategy to survive in this crazy, stupid and doped financial world market.
~ William C. Brown
Money is permission to live.
~ H L Humes
Same Money or Nobody will save you.
~ Asha Kanta Sharma
WoyzeckUs poor people. Yes, money, money. You see, Captain, if you have no money. Try raising someone like me in this world on morals alone. Man is also flesh and blood.
~ Georg Büchner, Woyzeck
Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.
~ Max Asnas
Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that's it.
~ Ellen Burstyn