Ken Burns Quotes

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.

While we breathe, we will hope.

the only thing i knew how to do was to keep on keeping on

Sometimes I think life is just a rodeo, the trick is to ride and make it to the bell.

We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.

Amazing how hope lives. Without air or water, with hardly anything at all to nurture it.

Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.

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

In the absence of hope we must still struggle to survive, and so we do-by the skin of our teeth.

For us, it's a matter of just staying alive and getting the best deal we can now. Eventually, this will all straighten out. It may be two generations away or 10 generations away, but time is irrelevant in that sense. As long as we, as a people, stay alive, we will survive.

I always have this image of a woman running across a desert carrying children, trying to find water and food, not knowing when they'll get that. And her feet are slashed up from the dry, hard earth... Even when I'm uncomfortable, sometimes in pain, or just cold... I think, 'Thank God for what I've got.'

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

Survival is triumph enough.

I've seen too much in life to give up.

Hope is a very thin diet.

Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.

I'm always looking for a story of survival.

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure

I just want people to know that they can make it through hard times like I did.

We must ride this strange torpedo out until the end.