surviving against the odds Quotes

As I have heard, since my arrival at this place, a circumstantial account of my death and dying speech, I take this early opportunity of contradicting the first, and of assuring you, that I have not as yet composed the latter. But by the All-Powerful Dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, although death was leveling my companions on every side of me!

I've been a victor of circumstance.

I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know, and I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.

[You Got To Make It Through The World] it's kind of a survival song. Survival is what's happening and it's basically a song about that.

We're used to comeback stories in the world of sports, but the Gail Devers story is remarkable. This is a comeback from an illness which almost killed her.

Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be.

Women, despite the fact that nine out of ten of them go through life with a death-bed air either of snatching-the-last-moment or with martyr-resignation, do not die tomorrow--or the next day. They have to live on to any one of many bitter ends.

You know, I've had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I've survived it's all because of you.

To be a survivor as an African American man - maybe any man - you have to be pretty tough. Or at least that's what we all understand.