Susan Elizabeth Phillips Quotes

You know, you don't get to survive that long without making some compromises.

I've learned all I need to know to live under a bed.

Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors.

Another roof, another proof.

I think that everybody does hustle in order to survive. That doesn't mean lying - it's more about how you handle situations.

When the country goes temporarily to the dogs, cats must learn to be circumspect, walk on fences, sleep in trees, and have faith that all this woofing is not the last word.

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.

When it comes to mentors, you can't beat survival.

As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.

You have learned what you have learned very well. It has helped you survive.

I'm not the quiet sensitive little guy I was. I can't be. There's just too much after me.

My parents believe in the principle of ‘sink or swim,’ or ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger ― or it kills you.” From “The Education of Robert Nifkin

I already survived one apocalypse, I don't need another.

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

I'm not a role model, nor have I ever tried to be a role model. The only thing about me as a role model is I've managed to stay here and be working and survive. For 40 years.

A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle.

If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building.

I think a lot of becoming an entrepreneur is something which people have to learn just from getting out there and giving it a go, and having to learn the art of survival.

The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.

I've always had a special place in my heart for old women digging through garbage bins. They saved my life so many times as a baby.

The only mistakes you can learn from are the ones you survive.

I am the epitome of the underdog. By societies standards I should have been dead a long time ago, and I was nobody's gangster, I wasn't a thug, I wasn't selling drugs on the corner - I was scared of that.

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.

A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows.

How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard.