Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.
I have been in the most dangerous of places just in order to survive. An intelligent man would stay in a safe place to survive.
I'm intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world.
By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?
I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output.
If the E.U. is to survive... it is based on the fact that for every community that belongs in Europe, there is a place in Europe.
I think I was able to survive five heart attacks because I never postponed going to the hospital when something didn't feel right.
The church is not going to survive if they are going to tell people that they have to twist their minds into 1st century pretzels.
As chefs, a lot of the times we lose sight of the fact that we are in the food business and that it needs to make money to survive.
In a country like India, with an ever-changing demography, adaptability is the most important attribute to survive in the industry.
We need constant change, technological innovation capability, and high productivity to survive in the fierce competitive environment.
In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive.
Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.
For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.
It's wrong that so many hardworking people - people working full-time, or even multiple jobs - need public assistance just to survive.
If South Korea is going to survive, and keep the peace on the peninsula, its citizens need to start conveying support for their state.
I love that feeling of being in a battle with the new ball, you're getting an opening batsman out while they are desperate to survive.
I was very fascinated by the time when firearms went from being fire sticks to being something people could use to hunt and to survive.
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
My parents have been very supportive. To survive in this industry, you need a great support system, and I am really blessed to have one.
Usually when you're auditioning for something, you are taking whatever is coming at you and saying 'yes' because you have to to survive.
We lived in the bowels of New York City. It was a struggle just to survive. This nice suburban kid hadn't had to do much of that before.
I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.
I just wanted to eat, to survive. I started singing a cappella in bars. I saved up money to get my first guitar and started writing songs.
A lot of people put out an album, and you never hear from them again. They're working a day job or doing whatever to survive through life.
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
As an actress, I have put myself out there as an independent black woman, a single mom, a go-getter, a hustler who isn't afraid to survive.
Having started with Bollywood and then moving to Telugu industry, I feel that it is not possible to survive without talent in any industry.
In order to survive in a dangerous neighborhood, Israel has always needed to be more than tough. The country has always needed to be smart.
To survive in a profession like this, you have to have absolute discipline and commitment, and I did not quite have it for musical theater.
I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive.
By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.
We obviously need to make money to survive, but we aren't going to sacrifice our creative integrity to do anything that doesn't feel like us.
A driver has to be strong in his mind anyway to survive in this sport. And if he is mentally not ready at 17, then he is also not ready at 20.
People will be able to survive, of course, without honeycreepers and monk seals. But if the wolf spider is in trouble, we are in trouble, too.
Illicit trade corrupts corporations and governments alike, allows dictators to survive, and obscures oppression, including modern day slavery.
I've managed to achieve a lot because I sleep very little. I tend to survive on about four hours a night, but when I'm stressed it's even less.
Overall, my life has been one of survival, and the decisions that I have made along the way, including my identification, have been to survive.
Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.
As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient's ability and desire to survive.
My father would go to work and try to survive every day just to get home to my mother so they could be at each other's side. That's what I want.
I came up seeing what a lot of young brothers see in this world, and you learn to deal with people with a long handle spoon in order to survive.
I always say God doesn't need me, but I need Him in my life to survive in this world and over temptation. That's Who keeps me humble every time.
Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.
I think my dad really wanted me to survive the world. He knew as a psychologist how difficult the world is, and I think he wanted me to be tough.
As awful as the crimes of Stalinism were, the vast majority of the Russian population was trying to survive, to love, to have a sense of purpose.
I have a hard time being career-minded, but I want to be able to survive as an actor and do work that I think is important and that says something.