Quotes about Survival

Nature, red in tooth and claw.

Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.

Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.

I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.

An adult human can last 40 days without food, a week without any sleep, three days without water, but only five minutes without air. Yet nothing is more taken for granted than the air we breathe. However, not just any air will do - it must be exquisitely designed to meet our needs. Too little oxygen in the atmosphere will kill us, as will too much.

If you've ever been in a position in your life where you just can't take any more, you just have to get through the next second, and the next second after that.

A lot of my chosen family is black and I say that unabashedly. For anyone who doesn't understand that, they just don't understand me and my generation because especially in the LGBT community, the concept of chosen family is so important and it's a survival tactic.

The natives used to tie their enemies to the tree. The ants would eat them alive.

There is one day that has brought me unspeakable pain, & the effects of that day continue to cover & erode my world like rust. I suspect that someday the rust will eat through the joists & posts of my life & I will topple, literally as well as figuratively.

That which doesn't kill you only makes you stronger," Mike said. "Except bears. Bears will kill you.

They tried to bury us. They just didn't know we were seeds.

In the ensuing years, in several different prisons, they broke four vertebrae in my back, and many other bones. They carved me in a dozen places. They burned and cut eighteen holes in my body.