Quotes About Survival

My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.

Yes. I owed my life, Angel's life, and my mother's life to a mutant's ability to create industrial-strength snot.

My mother had lots and lots of children who didnt survive.

The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.

Three of them got killed. My mother was shot in the knee. But by God's grace, she's still alive.

When my mother and my grandmother died three months apart, I knew my world was over.

My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.

I had a really scary pregnancy and a very difficult delivery. My daughter and I are lucky to be alive.

Children with healthy mothers are much more likely to survive childhood, attend school and live healthy, productive lives.

My life was very tenuous last year. My daughter's death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn't know if I'd survive it.

My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in.

That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?

My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.

Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general.

Every time you lose you die a little bit. You die inside...a portion of you. Not all of your organs. Maybe just your liver.

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.

It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive.

You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.

We are into the opening stages of a human-caused biotic holocaust-a wholesale elimination of species-that could leave the planet impoverished for at least five million years.