A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
Pam Brown

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
Liberty Hyde Bailey

A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it.
Michael Bay

A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy.
Rod Blagojevich

And because of the reunion I think we've got more energy and enthusiasm than we've ever had. And it's genuine. I think the fans can detect when you're genuine, when you love what you do, and we love to be there on stage. That's what we thrive on.
Glenn Tipton

As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious.
Nicolas Cage

As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
Gavin Newsom

Awareness has changed so that every act for children, every piece of legislation recognizes that children are part of families and that it is within families that children grow and thrive or don't.
Bernice Weissbourd

Being in several, disparate bands is what I thrive on.
Trevor Dunn

By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
Sallust

Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it.
Itzhak Perlman

For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnants of life have to be there. These then need to be washed over with water as soon as possible, so that the bones are covered with a layer of sediment.
Richard Leakey

I actually thrive on all the challenges, and I don't feel like ADD has impaired my ability.
David Neeleman

I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines, nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.
Harry Shearer

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
Jack Nicholson

I enjoy being given a certain amount of freedom in order to interpret or to come up with stuff, but I do enjoy collaboration. I seek and thrive on projects where I am going to learn from the people I'm working with.
William Kempe

I think really what I'm saying is that I thrive on adversity.
Richard Marx

I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.
Daniel Day-Lewis

I want all the interested parties to come together and develop a solution that provides additional water and helps the lower Arkansas River communities thrive again.
Ken Salazar

I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.
Charles de Lint