Robert Fulghum Quotes

We are powerful because we have survived

I've told you before and I'll tell you again. The strong survive and the weak disappear. We do not intend to disappear.

I will survive For as long as I know how to love, I know I'll stay alive.

I'm here because they've killed almost all of us, but not all of us. And that's their mistake, son. That's the flaw in their plan. Because if you don't kill all of us at once, whoever's left are not going to be the weak ones. The strong ones- and only the strong ones- will survive. The bent but unbroken, if you know what I mean. People like me. And people like you.

Stephen's the great survivor, isn't he? He just goes on and on.

People say, That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger. But they are wrong. What doesn't kill you doesn't kill you. That's all you get. Sometimes, you just have to hope that's enough.

Just remember: Surviving is the best revenge, no matter what the disaster has been.

If it makes you feel any better, this isn't my first apocalypse. There is hope.

So long as there is breath in me, I will persist.

What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? - I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.

So long as there is breath in me, that long will I persist.

Survival is an art. It requires the dulling of the mind and the senses, and a delicate attunement to waiting, without insisting on precision about just what it is you are waiting for.

There been times when I thought I couldn't last for long But now I think I'm able to carry on It's been a long, been a long time coming But I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will

The trick at every turn was to endure the test of living for as long as possible. The odds of survival were punishingly slim, for the world was naught by a school of calamity and an endless burning furnace of tribulation. But those who survived the world shaped it--even as the world, simultaneously, shaped them.

I'm surviving. I'm a survivor.

Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.

The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other.

Surviving means being born over and over.

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.

Survival is the key word to remember—not victory, not conquest, just survival.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

I've always believed in survival.

The man who runs may fight again.