Survival Quotes

When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture.

Global climate change has a profound impact on the survival and development of mankind. It is a major challenge facing all countries.

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

Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?

Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.

The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth.

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.

The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.

And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.

Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.

The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.

Survival is nothing more than recovery.

During this period, Japan's peaceful commercial relations were successively obstructed, primarily by the American rupture of commercial relations, and this was a grave threat to the survival of Japan.

The pressure of survival in the big city will make you lose sight of your dream... Hang in there.

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?"

What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.

Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America.

The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival.

Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

I'm always looking for a story of survival.

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism.