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Quotes About Survival

root, a stem, a leaf, some means of capturing sunlight and air and making food -- in some, a plant. The green substance of the earth, the chlorophyll, is all summed up in the plants. Without them we perish, all of us who are flesh and blood
~ Hal Borland
Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air...but only for one second without hope.
~ Hal Lindsey
The bowhead lives its life extremely slowly, becoming sexually mature at about age twenty-five, with females giving birth every seven years or so; if it avoids the whalers, a bowhead has a good chance of living well past a century.19 It is definitively the
~ Hal Whitehead
Whoever doesn't live in poetry cannot survive here on earth.
~ Halldor Laxness
War kills everybody, including the ones who live.
~ Hallgrimur Helgason
Wir sind alle ein bisschen gestorben in diesem Krieg, glaube ich. Wie meine Mutter immer gesagt hat. Krieg tötet alle, auch die, die ihn überleben.
~ Hallgrimur Helgason
Do you fear the force of the wind, The slash of the rain? Go face them and fight them, Be savage again. Go hungry and cold like the wolf, Go wade like the crane: The palms of your hands will thicken, The skin of your cheek will tan, You'll grow ragged and weary and swarthy, But you'll walk like a man!
~ Hamlin Garland
the weak shall not fight only the strong are the chosen ones.
~ Hammurabi
more than 150 years later, these crude breastworks are still in place). At dusk the men picked the meatiest of their stringy mules and slaughtered them for a thin gravy dinner. From that day on, this forlorn spot would be known as Mule Hill.
~ Hampton Sides
I felt as we floundered aimlessly about in the snow that it made little difference to me whether I lived or died. It seemed to me that the terrible journey would have no end. I was awake and aware of all that was transpiring around me, but had lost all feeling and power of speech, and existed like an animated dead man.
~ Hampton Sides
She had sunk at latitude 77°15 N, longitude 155° E, a little more than seven hundred miles south of the North Pole.
~ Hampton Sides
Some misguided Israelis believe that if they make life unbearable for us, we'll leave. No Palestinian is ready to go into exile or commit collective suicide. We are here to stay.
~ Hanan Ashrawi
Country folks will survive
~ Hank Williams Jr.
Wschodnioeuropejscy ?ydzi stworzyli barwny ?wiat. Mieli j?zyk i literatur?, mieli swoich cadyków i bankierów, uczonych i rzemie?lników, socjalistów i chasydów, swoje dania, melodie, ?arty, stroje, westchnienia, gesty i sposób trzymania g?owy. Mieli "rzewny czar",który bra? si? z mieszanki intelektualizmu i mistycyzmu. Nie ma tego ?wiata. Nieliczni ocaleni nie daj? wyobra?enia o nim.
~ Hanna Krall
S?uchaj, moje dziecko. Czy ty wiesz, czym by? chleb w getcie? Bo jak nie wiesz, to nigdy nie zrozumiesz, dlaczego tysi?ce ludzi mog?o dobrowolnie przyj?? i z chlebem jecha? do Treblinki. Nikt przecie? tego dotychczas nie zrozumia?.
~ Hanna Krall
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
~ Hannah Arendt
Das Leben geht immer weiter, auch unter Ruinen. Die Ruinen sind unwichtig, aber das Leben ist wichtig. Das Leben mit einem Grashalm in der Stadtmitte zwischen tausend zerstörten Steinblöcken. Es geht immer weiter.
~ Hans Fallada
Even death row speaks, breathes, lives. Even on death row, the deep-seated urge to communicate cannot be extinguished.
~ Hans Fallada
I swore that I would be better. But man gets used to anything, and I am afraid that perhaps he gets used quickest of all to living in a state of degradation.
~ Hans Fallada
?nsan? ayakta tutan ?ey umut olmal?. Ölmekte olan bir ki?inin kafas?ndan silinen son duygunun da umut oldu?unu san?yorum.
~ Hans Fallada
Who is to emerge from the flood if we go under in it?
~ Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Man and rats are merely, so far, the most successful animals of prey. They are utterly destructive of other forms of life. Neither of them is of the slightest use to any other species of living things.
~ Hans Zinsser
Salg?n Bizans'? 4 ay etkiledi. Günde 5-10 bin ölü vard?: "Sonunda mezar kaz?c? bulunamay?nca, kalelerdeki kulelerin çat?lar? ç?kar?ld?, cesetler koyulup çat? tekrar kapat?ld?." Cenazeler gemilere koyulup denize terk ediliyordu. "Salg?n bittikten sonra ahlâks?zl?k ve sapk?nl?k o kadar artt? ki, salg?n geriye sadece günahkârlar? b?rakt? sanard?n?z.
~ Hans Zinsser
Roma ?mparatoru Elagabalus'un, 10.000 fare, 1000 k?r faresi ve 1000 gelincik aras?nda bir dövü? düzenledi?i söylenir. Söylemeye gerek yok, k?r faresi fareyi 'k?r'?p geçirdi, gelincik ikisinin de hakk?ndan geldi.
~ Hans Zinsser