Rick Yancey 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.

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 weakest goes to the wall.

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.

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

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

I've always believed in survival.

Heart's always been sort of like a cockroach. You can set off a bomb, and it'll still be alive underneath.

I have been fascinated with survival and having to go on no matter what. That always appealed to me.

A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.

Carry on, carry on, what don't kill us makes us strong.

Everything can be taken from you in a second, but the human spirit is so strong. War can teach you so much about evil, and so much about good.

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.

When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up.

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

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

Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way.

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

when times are tough, the weak bail and the tough get creative.

Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of desire.

No matter where you go, poor people have the capacity to endure. Some people even compliment us on it, as if endurance is all we can achieve.

Life is stronger than death.

I will make a battering-ram of my head and make my way through this rough and tumble world.

When it's all said and done, you may go through the fire, through the flood, through the famine, but you'll come out standing strong.