Quotes about Survival
But she keep on. You got to fight. You got to fight. But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.
— Alice Walker
I'm pore, black, I may even be ugly, but dear God, I'm here! I'm here!
— Alice Walker
it is the sense that something that was alive for a very long time is still alive. Not yet beaten into submission or oblivion by those who kill everything they touch with money.
— Alice Walker
Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.
— George Bernard Shaw
Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.
— Elie Wiesel
His [Ishmael's] hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him.
— Anonymous
Hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
— Anonymous
Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
— Anonymous
When he was at the last gasp.
— Anonymous
From battle and murder, and from sudden death.
— Anonymous
Give a man a fire and keep him warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he will be warm for rest of his life.
— Anonymous
After momma gave birth to 12 of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.
— Dolly Parton