Bill Burr Quotes

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

It's like the animal kingdom. Adapt or go extinct.

Moths like me die by the thousands every minute. Her work goes on all the same. Glory unto Mother!

The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever

Mother Nature is a pretty good bioterrorist.

Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself.

If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother Nature's Survival Course.

If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.

What is too often forgotten is that nature obviously intends the botched to die, and that every interference with that benign process is full of dangers.

What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system.

From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.

That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual change.

The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.

The weak are meat the strong do eat.

In fighting, in evolution, in life, efficiency is the key.

The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.

The only question now is: How much can I hang on to?

Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.

Victory in defeat, there is none higher. She didn't give up, Ben; she's still trying to lift that stone after it has crushed her. She's a father working while cancer eats away his insides, to bring home one more pay check. She's a twelve-year-old trying to mother her brothers and sisters because mama had to go to Heaven. She's a switchboard operator sticking to her post while smoke chokes her and fire cuts off her escape. She's all the unsung heroes who couldn't make it but never quit.

Life was not fair. If you wanted something you had to take it. Before someone else took it from you. Neatly dissected down to its essence, life was one long series of lily pad hoppings. The quick and the resourceful were able to adapt and survive; all others were simply crushed as a more nimble creature landed on the lily pad they had occupied for too long.

You work three jobs? Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." To a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005

When I knew I couldn't suffer another moment of pain, and tears fell on my bloody bindings, my mother spoke softly into my ear, encouraging me to go one more hour, one more day, one more week, reminding me of the rewards I would have if I carried on a little longer. In this way, she taught me how to endure — not just the physical trials of footbinding and childbearing but the more torturous pain of the heart, mind, and soul.

Don't get sick, and if you do get sick, die quickly.

Hip-hop is a beautiful culture. It's inspirational, because it's a culture of survivors. You can create beauty out of nothingness.

I contemplate the body, dead and diseased as well as alive and healthy.