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Quotes About Survival

I come from the hi-tech world - you don't survive if you don't constantly reinvent yourself every few years.
~ Naftali Bennett
When I see how fast technology is advancing, my mind thinks of evolution and how organisms also have to evolve or adapt in order to, in their case, survive.
~ Tony DiTerlizzi
When the poor know that their children will survive, when they educate their daughters, when they access family planning, they have fewer children.
~ Nicholas Kristof
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.
For us, it's a matter of just staying alive and getting the best deal we can now. Eventually, this will all straighten out. It may be two generations away or 10 generations away, but time is irrelevant in that sense. As long as we, as a people, stay alive, we will survive.
~ John Trudell
'The Daily News' and 'Post' gave me my life, and I want to see them survive.
~ Pete Hamill
You can be an idiot and survive because you just go to McDonalds for your food, and you go to work and do some sort of inane job, which is nobody taking any responsibility - it's always up the line - and then you watch the Super Bowl, and that's it. But in the old days, you really had to know how your world works. You don't need that anymore.
~ Harry Kroto
In London, you'll be walking around and, 'Oh, there's the ground.' Every area of the city has a Premier League club. They all survive; they all exist with enough money, and that's good.
~ Jurgen Klopp
Bob Dylan is someone that - I don't care how long into the future it is - somebody will still play Bob Dylan. He will always survive.
~ Morten Tyldum
I think it's about not just the crisis you're in, but how do you get to the other side? How do we heal? How do we survive this experience while remaining hopeful instead of filled with despair? That's what interests me.
~ Laura Dern
I have completed 43 years in politics and have been a minister of state, chief minister, and a Cabinet minister. A person who survives so many years is bound to face some attacks. It doesn't affect me because I know the truth.
~ Sharad Pawar
Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.
~ Kat Graham
You know what kind of companies generally survive? Companies that make more money than they spend. I know, duh, right?
~ Heidi Roizen
It's the friends that make you survive this flat place called the Midwest.
~ Sayed Kashua
All Israel wants to do is survive.
~ Mike Gallagher
There were times when I was a joke, but talent survives.
~ David Cassidy
For me personally, I get to be a cartoonist, because my comic would never survive in print. Maybe one in 100 people would like it, but online, I can gather that one percent all in one place.
~ Ryan North
I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
We survived a Slayer crowd every night for about 50 days and thought we could do about anything after that.
~ Layne Staley
I don't know why I survived Iraq and I don't know why I made it home, but I do know that this is my second chance at life and I can do whatever I want now.
~ Tammy Duckworth
I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.
~ Kenzaburo Oe
I am responsible for my brother's death. I feel the guilt of having survived. People say, 'You should be happy. You survived.' But I have this feeling that it is not right that I am alive.
~ Reinhold Messner
Sharks are among the most perfectly constructed creatures in nature. Some forms have survived for two hundred million years.
~ Eugenie Clark
What survived as orthodox Christianity did so by suppressing and forcibly eliminating a lot of other material.
~ Elaine Pagels