A lot of very, very big stars were going down and not being seen or heard from again. Kirk took a huge chance in putting a blacklisted writer's name on the screen and somehow or other, he survived it, like he survives everything.
Lee Grant

At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood.
Joyce Maynard

Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
Abu Bakr

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner

Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.
Michael Shermer

I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.
John Travolta

If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good.
Jerry Goldsmith

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Albert Einstein

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
Cesare Pavese

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
Dorothy Thompson

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
Charles Darwin

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

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.
Colin Powell

No plan of battle ever survives contact with the enemy.
Helmuth von Moltke

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
Bruce Lee

Quality survives.
Leonard Maltin

The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives.
Joseph Rotblat

The Lord survives the rainbow of His will.
Robert Lowell

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
Edmund Spenser

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