Survival Quotes

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest."

They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival.

They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.

Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.

In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.

A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest.

The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.

Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results.

As in the war of 1941-45, our victory and our survival depend on how and where we attack.

The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival.

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

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

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.

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

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

Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species.

The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.

Survival is the main objective. There are going to be some awful days, I know that from my background in the sport.

Survival is triumph enough.

Moderation is the secret of survival.

As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.