Quotes About Survival

I can say I have forgiven my captors. That being said, I never want to see them again. I'm not OK with they did to me.

A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't cry: you scream, you try to run. When it's over and you're OK, that's when you cry.

My father died when I was 14, and my mother juggled two jobs so she could make sure my sister and I were OK.

If I've got food and water, as long as I can exercise my mind and keep it nimble, then I'll be okay.

I look back at myself, this innocent person, and I think, 'Gosh, she's okay.' I handled a lot, and I'm still here.

I had a lot of chaos in my very early years before I was old enough to know what was going on, and then I just skated through the rest of my childhood without dealing with it.

I was born with chronic asthma, and when I was about five or six years old, one day I had an asthma attack so bad I began to become comatose.

I think everything that played a part in my life growing up is in my music. Being homeless, living in shelters, dealing with over-aged, older men that hit on me... all that is in the music.

The world's oldest Christian populations have been driven from their homes and have become nearly extinct in the Middle East.

Until I was 16 or 17, we had no water. My mother had to cook water in a kettle, and once a week I was bathed, and that was it.

I read 'Y: The Last Man' once a year.

Sharks - I'm sure they're going to get me one day.

It's scary when one day the city is there and the next day it's gone. To see the water actual kill people, I couldn't believe it. I never fathomed it could bury a city.

Acting is a cruel enough business. One minute everyone's going 'Hey!' and the next they're going 'Who?'. You certainly don't need people knowing your private business, especially if you want to come out with your head still attached.

One time, I took a woman on a deserted island, and we lived like Mother Nature for 10 days.

'The Newton Boys' was the one time I've made a film with really active characters who weren't at all self-reflexive and just plowed through their lives. There's a part of everyone that's like that. We have a biological imperative to keep living, keep moving forward... We have no choice.

One of the stories that inspires me is that it is documented that a honey badger killed a lion in a one-on-one.

The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.

I don't have a death wish. On the contrary, I'm hanging onto my life like never before.

From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life.

When I was 10 I had a bone disease called osteomyelitis; they said if they didn't operate, I had 24 hours to live.

If you don't operate it as a business, you aren't going to be around very long.

Doctors didn't know if I would survive. The cancer was too big to operate on, so they blitzed it with chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less. For a town or country labourer to practise thrift would be absolutely immoral. Man should not be ready to show that he can live like a badly-fed animal. He should decline to live like that, and should either steal or go on the rates, which is considered by many to be a form of stealing.