Survival Quotes

The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully.

Rebecca Solnit

GreatPeopleCalmSurvivalBeyond

As a Jew I am aware of how important the existence of Israel is for the survival of us all. And because I am proud of being Jewish, I am worried by the growing anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in the world.

Steven Spielberg

I AmWorldProudSurvivalGrowing

We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.

Nick Nolte

PastBrainSurvivalNothingEat

I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.

Tony Blair

SurvivalHandsFindPersonNormal

I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers.

Margaret J. Wheatley

BelieveBetterSurvivalI BelieveUs

When a trait is universal, evolutionary biologists look for a genetic explanation and wonder how that gene or genes might enhance survival or reproductive success.

Robin Marantz Henig

SuccessSurvivalLookWonderGenes

I would have written 'Brown Girl Dreaming' if no one had ever wanted to buy it, if it went nowhere but inside a desk drawer that my own children pulled out one day to find a tool for survival, a symbol of how strong we are and how much we've come through.

Jacqueline Woodson

GirlChildrenDayStrongSurvival

I'm one of the writers that would die if I didn't say what I needed to say. For me, it's a matter of survival to write.

Mary Lambert

MeDieSurvivalSayMatterWrite

I've witnessed the survival of the theatre several times when it was meant to be dying.

Harriet Walter

TheatreSurvivalMeant To BeDying

The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.

Mo Udall

NatureFightSurvivalMoreOptions

I need a producer who will look for a good script. I need a director whose purpose to make a film is not for his survival but because he loves making films.

Ajith Kumar

GoodPurposeSurvivalLookWill

If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can any one doubt that the results of this competition of races will be the 'survival of the fittest?'

Josiah Strong

SeaCompetitionSurvivalPowerful

My dad's life story was a string of kindness. He treated everyone as an equal, whether it was the bank teller or the bank president. He even attributed his survival to the courage of kindness.

Daniel Lubetzky

LifeKindnessCourageStorySurvival

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

Desi Arnaz

FatherMiamiSurvivalFirstYears

Having raised humanity above the beastly level of survival struggles, we will now aim to upgrade humans into gods and turn Homo sapiens into Homo deus.

Yuval Noah Harari

SurvivalHumanityNowAimWillTurn

Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are the uniquest. And that uniqueness of being human, language, art, culture, our dependency on culture for survival, comes from the combination of traditional biological evolution.

Donald Johanson

ArtCultureLanguageSurvivalUnique

I haven't seen the show, but when it was finished I felt good about what we had done. I don't know how it will stack up with Survival, but that'll be up to the critics.

Vic Morrow

GoodSurvivalKnowDoneWillUp

For the continued survival of our planet and humanity, it is crucial that certain discoveries and skills and inventions made by people over the years be passed on from one human generation to the next, from one person, face-to-face, to another.

Chris Raschka

PeopleGenerationSurvivalHumanity

I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.

Salman Rushdie

HealthLovedFriendsSurvivalNever

I became a stand-up because that was my survival.

Brad Garrett

SurvivalBecauseStand-UpBecame

America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.

Nancy Pearcey

StruggleBlessingsPoliticalSurvival

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

Arnold J. Toynbee

TodaySocietyBetterSurvivalBecome

As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.

Karin Slaughter

ReadingSurvivalHumanWouldLike

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.

William Glasser

LoveFreedomPowerFunSurvival

FirstPrev1011121314151617NextLast

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quotes about Survival