It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it.
Audre Lorde

Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.
Julie Walters

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.
Helen Hayes

Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive.
Edward Everett

Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.
Barbara Jordan

Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.
Richard M. Nixon

Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements.
Wietse Venema

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.
Ayn Rand

Many other countries in this world are in a difficult situation, and all the Thai people are probably worried about the fate of Thailand: whether the country would survive or not.
Bhumibol Adulyadej

Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.
W. C. Fields

Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.
Billie Jean King

Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities.
Tom Brady

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
Doug Larson

My mother had lots and lots of children who didn't survive.
Dom DeLuise

My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.
Kenny Loggins

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.
James Lovelock

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.
Frank Zappa

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
Peter Drucker

Of course, we didn't survive to play all the way through the '90s, so I can say that - as I said, everybody in the band was aware of this, and we trying to figure out ways to make it different.
Phil Lesh