Quotes about Survival

Hunger stared down from the smokeless chimneys, and started up from the filthy street that had no offal, among its refuse, of anything to eat. Hunger was the inscription on the baker's shelves, written in every small loaf of his scanty stock of bad bread;

Despite our fears and worries, and they are very real to all of us, life continues — it goes on. In these three words I can sum up everything I have learned in my 80 years about life — it goes on.

A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive. And among that billion minus one Might have chanced to be Shakespeare, another Newton, a new Donne; But the One was Me.

A few weeks before production wrapped on the movie 'Le Mans', racer David Piper lost control of his car and crashed as the cameras rolled. Years later, Piper recounted to a reporter, "I suddenly found myself sitting in only half a car, surrounded by smoke and dust, and I thought, Good Lord, that's my shoe over there--- and my foot is still in it!

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.

I've pushed several women in front of violent situations. My rule is save myself first.

A flower blooming in a storm is stronger than a tree blossoming under a rainbow.

If a flower can flourish in the desert, you can flourish anywhere.

A flower blooming in the desert proves to the world that adversity, no matter how great, can be overcome.

Dear past, I survived you. Dear present, I'm ready for you. Dear future, I'm coming for you.

Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better.