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Quotes About Sustainability

I could cut my leg of; I could cut my arm off. I could gouge my eye out - I'd still probably survive, but not very well, and that's what we're doing to the ocean. It's the life support system of this planet. We've been dumping in it, we've been polluting it, we've been destroying it for decades, and we're essentially maiming ourselves.
~ Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
I don't think capitalism can survive.
~ Douglas Tompkins
You know what kind of companies generally survive? Companies that make more money than they spend. I know, duh, right?
~ Heidi Roizen
Having money is better than not having it, but I've been poor, and I've survived.
~ Dawn Steel
Gramacho is the last landfill that allows people in. Brazil is the leading nation in recycling due to its poverty. There are people there surviving from what they find in the garbage.
~ Vik Muniz
I don't want food that comes from animals that are caged up and fed antibiotics. I am really suspicious of that kind of production of meat and poultry.
~ Alice Waters
Excellence endures and sustains. It goes beyond motivation into the realms of inspiration.
~ Azim Premji
Hungary does not need a single migrant for the economy to work or the population to sustain itself or for the country to have a future.
~ Viktor Orban
So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us.
~ Dave Matthews
In Congress, I will fight for an education system that bridges the opportunity gap in order to help close the achievement gap, and prioritize models that sustain and enrich whole people and communities.
~ Deb Haaland
Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
~ E. O. Wilson
Anybody can do something one time. You have a great year because everything goes right. But can you maintain it and sustain it for a long period of time as Coach Carroll did and Coach Saban?
~ Lane Kiffin
No writer can really sustain two huge - I hate the word 'franchises.'
~ Anthony Horowitz
When your heart speaks to you about what you need to do to sustain life on this planet, listen to it, make a difference, and be an inspiration for generations to come. Be inspired by people like Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Christopher Reeve, Albert Schweitzer, Helen Keller, and many others.
~ Bernie Siegel
India needs to sustain its high growth rate.
~ N. R. Narayana Murthy
Couples need time alone to renew their relationship. They also need to sustain supportive networks of friends and family.
~ Stephanie Coontz
You've gotta have a healthy balance of keeping your eye on how much money is in your account and making sure that it can sustain a healthy, happy life.
~ Tyler Posey
If you only get money, but you don't care about a thing, right or wrong, you cannot last. That cannot sustain you for the future.
~ Wang Shi
Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.
~ Sam Graves
One thing we didn't know in 1996 is that it's very, very difficult, if not impossible, to sustain a culture with online advertising.
~ Howard Rheingold
As far as Ola is concerned, we are focused and determined to build a business that can sustain and be impactful.
~ Bhavish Aggarwal
Once you climb to another level, you have to figure out how to sustain it.
~ Mary J. Blige
But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country.
~ Eduard Shevardnadze
Supermarkets don't really sustain a community, and they completely remove people from the food chain.
~ Arthur Potts Dawson