Quotes About Survival

Before being humans with morals, people are mostly animals, fighting for domination and survival.

Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.

Success is survival.

Escapism is survival to me.

The mountain gorilla faces grave danger of extinction - primarily because of the encroachments of native man upon its habitat - and neglect by civilized man, who does not conscientiously protect even the limited areas now allotted for the gorilla's survival.

Every soldier should learn survival on land, sea, and in the air.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

Fascinations breeds preparedness, and preparedness, survival.

The human young must learn to perceive these affordances, in some degree at least, but the young of some animals do not have time to learn the ones that are crucial for survival.

At this crucial time in our lives, when everything is so desperate, when every day is a matter of survival, I don't think you can help but be involved.

I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.

The juke joint, the honky tonk, and the ballroom also represent one more thing, anthropologically speaking: a ceremonial context for the male-with-female-duet dance flirtation and embrace, upon which the zoological survival of the human species has always been predicated.

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.

I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.

Even though 'Prequelle' is a record about death, essentially, it's a record about survival, and I think that that is something that's gone through all the records. Even back to 'Opus Eponymous,' there was a double meaning to things that doesn't necessarily have to do with evil sermons out of some old grimoire somewhere how to summon the devil.

I'm really grateful I grew up in a house in which media literacy was a survival skill.

My architecture is the architecture of survival.

I guess what I find interesting is city folk are the least capable of survival of any human being.

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.

Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.

Survival is important, art is secondary. If you aren't alive, how can you create art?

Probably spending 12 years at boarding school - comedy became a survival gene. But I think some people are funny right off the bat, as soon as they can speak or be naughty.