Sam Childers Quotes

There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.

In war, everything changes. You are very selective of what you do because everything you do can be the last thing you do in your life.

I have a different kind of experience than other girls had. I've had to face a lot of different styles and adjust to them. I had to face a lot of bad situations and come back. I've had to fight with my eyes swollen shut and my nose broken and bloody.

It's an odd feeling, knowing someone is trying to kill you. On the front line, you learn quickly that if you're in the path of a bullet, you will get hit.

I've always believed in survival.

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

He who flees will fight again.

Put the army in the face of death where they cannot escape and they will do heroic things to win.

The thing that I love about Rick Grimes is that he pulls himself off the canvas even when he has been pummeled to the ground so many times. And either he gets up by himself - he drags himself up - or he is helped up by loved ones around him.

Tough times don't last. Tough people do. I preach that, and I guess you have to live to it.

You can keep knocking me down forever, I'll keep getting up and trying.

If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.

You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

Through these adversities, Israel has endured with continued strength, conviction, and faith.

To survive is to win.

America is a country of fighters. People who fought their way in and then continued fighting.

The man who runs may fight again.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting.

I like to see people who are survivors wearing my shoes. I am fascinated by people who can bounce back.

No damn man kills me and lives.

Human beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon the edge of the existential cliff since Hiroshima. In short, we endure.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.