Top 70 Surviving Quotes

Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.

To a billion people around the world surviving on just a dollar a day, the question of what to eat tonight is more about life and death than about recipes. The struggle of poor people around the globe weighs heavily on me, especially now that I am a mother, which is why I work with Oxfam.

I’d like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that’s basically becoming limited.

Evolution is all about passing on the genome to the next generation, adapting and surviving through generation after generation. From an evolutionary point of view, you and I are like the booster rockets designed to send the genetic payload into the next level of orbit and then drop off into the sea.

Unless you’re living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there’s no point in being gloomy. We’ve spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don’t really need. We’ve stopped using our imaginations.

It’s a sad thing to contemplate, but I’m the last surviving cast member of ‘The African Queen.’

Surviving failure is one thing. Surviving success is… is challenging, with the consequences and what you lose along the way.

I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.

Being in a band is far more than playing an instrument. It’s surviving. It’s getting an album together.

If you don’t have a real stake in the new, then just surviving on the old – even if it is about efficiency – I don’t think is a long-term game.

I’m surviving and developing as a writer. I don’t know what brings you to mass attention in terms of sales. But I’ve gotten more and more comfortable with it. Of course if that changes, I’ll be comfortable with that. All I can do is write the best books I can.

I was the only one to work seven years with my uncle, who is quite a difficult guy. With him, it’s not living, it’s surviving. If he does 100 percent, you have to do 150 percent, to show you can do as well as he does.

I come from a family of refugees. I’m used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.

All of the characters I’ve had the chance to create are survivors. But we live in a world where surviving makes up most of what we do.

You didn’t have to know anything about show business to appreciate the characters’ humor, because at its heart, ‘Party Down’ was about following dreams, dealing with rejection, and surviving all the lame jobs we’ve all had to work just to get by in the meantime.

In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it’s popular. What I’m saying is that anything fed into the industrial machinery to comply with rules of size and length and shelf-life has a hard time surviving as art.

Nothing goes further toward a man’s liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.

After Nigeria, we are the second biggest black African nation. We are the headquarters of the African Union. We are the only African country that has never been colonized. This is perhaps the last surviving African civilization.

Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that’s still surviving.

The things that interest me are less to do with perhaps finding myself and more to do with surviving and mercy and forgiveness.

Honestly, surviving in ‘Bigg Boss’ was a cakewalk as compared to staying in ‘Survivor,’ where we had to live in primitive-age conditions, even generating fire on our own.

I thought we’d just sequence the genome once and that would be sufficient for most things in people’s lifetimes. Now we’re seeing how changeable and adaptable it is, which is why we’re surviving and evolving as a species.

Autumn is much redder in North America and east Asia than it is in northern Europe, and this can’t be explained by temperature differences alone. These areas also have a greater proportion of ancient tree lineages surviving: trees have gone extinct at a higher rate in Europe compared with those other areas.

Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.

Reinvention is the key to surviving this fashion industry. Madonna is the perfect example of reinvention. She has taken something that is so little and turned herself into a legend by simply never staying the same.

The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.

At 19, I was in the streets making money. I was surviving.

I think I am one of the smallest surviving brands.

‘The Creative Habit’ is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. ‘The Collaborative Habit’ is obviously about surviving with other people.

Every day should be #GivingTuesday when it comes to surviving natural catastrophes and man-made disasters.

Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two’s is the most important thing.

Remember, acting is not a business of glamour. It is science, craft and an art. Read about acting; don’t do it for the sake of fun. Actors such as Paresh Rawal and Naseeruddin Shah are great examples; they are surviving only because they have read well.

We don’t develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could.

I survived in high school by working at Kentucky Fried Chicken and made my way up to assistant manager. I was surviving high school and college with that job.

The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.

The key to competing and surviving against Wal-Mart is to focus your business into a niche or pocket where you can leverage your strengths in the local marketplace.

After clearing the land, planting the orchard, building the house and barn, and surviving the Great Depression, our father died suddenly one winter night when we were small, leaving us to learn about loss before we even knew its name.

When I was a kid, we would build pillow forts. My pillow fort was always like Ice Station 9 in Antarctica. The other kids would come by and be like, ‘Oh! The wind and snow is blowing.’ From a young age, I wanted to be out there and surviving. I’m a high-strung, hyperactive guy.

You gotta go out and do the stuff that’s going to be pushing the sport and stuff that’s going to be next level and scary. It’s all about going out and doing those tricks and pretty much surviving.

I think that being a Wildling is essentially about surviving the cold, and in that department, the extras on our shoot excelled and needed no help from us.

For me, ‘The Goldbergs’ was about surviving a crazy family – and believe me, the show is a sanitized version!

Heathens are unredeemed outcasts from heaven who roam the planet without hope of surviving the deaths of their bodies. They may have values, but they are not secured by any divine source. Yet we embrace this because we think it represents the truth.

I tell you a joke to have you listen to me, and then maybe I will tell you another joke that we can laugh together and feel equal. And then I will tell you a story hopefully that will make you cry. So I think that’s the way that I approach the columns, as a surviving tool in a way.

When you grow up hard, when you grow up surviving, unfortunately, it helps.

I had to figure out a different way of walking to ease my journey to the top, surviving in mountains, and more importantly, I learnt patience.

Millions of Indians have moved from just surviving or accepting life as it used to be to imagining a life where they can thrive and rise up to their potential. This rise of individual hope could generate massive amounts of creative energy.

I am lucky that I am surviving in the industry despite the kind of films I have made, which are absolutely unconventional.

My stories are about humanity, about the challenges of surviving and the constant fight against ignorance, inhumanity and complacency.

We’re just kinda surviving at a very comfortable level.

There’s something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfortable to enumerate the rules of his grandparents’ faith, if he knows them.

Surviving is the only glory in war.

I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn’t enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn’t prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food.