Quotes About Survival

Some people survived the neolithic age by being brave, others by being cowardly and smart.

Like many people of my generation, I feel like I survived my adolescent mischief only by a miracle, and it seems too much to hope for that the same miracle would befall my children - therefore, I want to make sure they take fewer chances than I did.

I've had friends who have experienced pretty horrible things, some pretty brutal things, and survived. And I know that they and I would never want them to be without the ability to defend themselves.

I'm convinced whenever something opens on Broadway, it's a miracle. It's a miracle that people survived.

There was no way the marriages could have survived. Nor do I regret that they didn't.

When I was a kid, I had scarlet fever. I wasn't supposed to have survived it. When I got out of bed, my bones were so soft that they kind of bent. I had a slight limp for probably three years after.

Most of the really successful civilisations survived because they were protected from invasion by mountains, sea, deserts, or a combination of these things. Ask the Russians or the Poles what it's like to live without the shield of the sea.

Scandals have impacted many politicians' careers and aspirations. Some have survived, and others have fallen.

I used to be a Def Jam artist. I was - I survived Def Jam.

I genuinely believe that being on death row for 22 years ultimately saved my life. It was the greatest adventure of my life, and I survived it.

Blacks had survived every form of human debasement with ingenuity, self-reliance, a deep and ironic humor, a capacity for self-reinvention and a heroic fortitude. But we had no experience of wide-open freedom.

I've survived through my love for the game.

I was going to do medicine at Edinburgh University - when I was three weeks old I nearly died, but they did an operation and I survived. It was a huge thing for my family - I was the first-born - and doctors were heroes, so I wanted to join them.

In spite of not taking big stars, I have survived in the industry.

We decided to go ahead and thaw my eggs that I had retrieved at the mansion, and none of them survived the thaw. That was pretty devastating for me because all this time I though I had an amazing insurance policy, and it didn't work out.

I feel like the reason I've survived in this business is because I love acting.

I don't have agencies presenting me, no big production house launching me, nobody from the industry backing me. I am all alone and have spent 14 years in this industry; and I am proud that I've survived for so long without any support.

I literally couldn't chew anything for 3-4 weeks and survived on just mashed curd rice and liquid upma.

It is true that Britain and its institutions have survived past crises, but often this was because those in charge, at a certain point, snapped out of the stupor of latent optimism, recognised the dangers circling the nation and acted.

I only survived because of my mother's love and care.

I survived cancer thanks to the support of my family.

I've survived a lot of managers, so I must have been doing something right.

I survived, but I wanted to give up so many times.

Earlier, if I gave three to four flops continuously, I survived because there was not much competition. But now the scenario has changed and it's always better to choose good scripts.