Quotes About Survival

The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.

How many frogs would fit in lizard's stomach?

That's another thing to remember: hope keeps you alive. Even when you're dead, it's the only thing that keeps you alive.

her. In a blink of those lashes, their tusks could reduce her limbs to bloody ribbons.

But eleven-year-old Max Rosen was determined to stay alive.

There were nine dogs on the Titanic. They stayed in kennels, but their owners could take them out onto the decks for walks. Two Pomeranians and one Pekingese survived with their masters.

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Max gripped Zena's hand and they ran for their lives. Their only hope was a nearby swamp. They could hide in the mud and slime, with the snakes and the snapping turtles and the razor-sharp grass. But

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a powerful hurricane. In August 2005, their worst predictions came true. Katrina's 125-mile-per-hour winds sent a gigantic wave of water from the Gulf of Mexico into the canals and lakes surrounding New Orleans. All of that water pushed up against the levees, and many of them failed, some crumbling like the walls of sandcastles. Billions of gallons of water gushed into New Orleans. Nearly 1,000 people drowned in the first hours of the flooding.

The Children's Blizzard. Because at least one hundred of the people who died were schoolchildren

More scared, even, than the time the black panther chased him through the woods back home in Millerstown, New York.

Dex was being sucked into the tornado, and he knew there could be no escape.

They had no longboat, no firewood, and scant clothing.

Their supplies consisted mainly of bread and wine, enough to last them the summer

they were determined to survive to the end of the voyage.

frigid spray splattered his exposed bottom. (More than one sailor lost his life when he plunged from the jardines

When he was done, he wiped himself with a length of pitch-covered rope, and then

They made their weapons gleam, and fought a constant, losing battle against protecting their food supply from vermin.

Of the food that Magellan took on at Seville, nearly four-fifths consisted of just two items, wine and hardtack.

The date of their escape from disaster was January 10, 1580.

mainly wood for fire and fresh water.

diminutive island lacking in either fresh water or wood but seething with wildlife.