Quotes about Survival
For centuries we had probed their faces, the angles of their bodies, the sounds of their voices and even their odors. Often our survival had depended upon the accurate reading of a white man's chuckle or the disdainful wave of a white woman's hand. Whites, on the other hand, always knew that no serious penalty threatened them if they misunderstood blacks. Whites were safely isolated from our concerns.
- Maya Angelou
It's how we survive the hurts in life that brings us strength and gives us our beauty.
- Beth Hoffman
Oysters are a lot like women. It's how we survive the hurts in life that brings us strength and gives us our beauty.
- Beth Hoffman
Perhaps the most profound miracle of all is living through something we thought would kill us.
- Beth Moore
My wish for you, Kallistos, is that you survive as many battles in the flesh as you have already fought in your imagination. Perhaps then you will acquire the humility of a man and bear yourself no longer as the demigod you presume yourself to be.
- Steven Pressfield
Faced with our imminent extinction, Tom Laughlin believes, all assumptions are called into question.
- Steven Pressfield
From the moment a child is born, the death process, and the fight against it, begins.
- Billy Graham
New Agers are terrified of their own mortality, and they want to believe that somehow the soul will survive. Of course it will, but not as they imagine.
- Billy Graham
It is only the strong Christian family unit that can survive the coming world holocaust.
- Billy Graham
If a child is to survive, he or she must know the rules of safety. If he is to be healthy, he must know the rules of health. If he is to drive a car, he must know the rules of the road. If he is to become a ball player, he must learn the rules of the game. And, contrary to popular thinking, children appreciate rules.
- Billy Graham
Spiritually, we have wandered far from the faith of our fathers . . . no nation which relegates the Bible to the background, which disregards the love of God and flouts the claims of the Man of Galilee, can long survive.
- Billy Graham
In a country where Christians were looked upon with suspicion and disfavor, a government leader said to me with a twinkle in his eye, "Christians seem to thrive under persecution. Perhaps we should prosper them, and then they would disappear.
- Billy Graham