#survive

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. ↗

— Tyler Perry

#boy #face #i #just #name

I don't watch a lot of comedy. For relaxation and escape, I watch shows about how people survive bear attacks. Or old episodes of 'Law and Order,' the Benjamin Bratt/Jerry Orbach era. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#attacks #bear #benjamin #comedy #episodes

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy. ↗

— Colin Powell

#contact #enemy #plan #survives

Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#disposable #fine #growing #growing up #i

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#any #civilization #men #morality #reject

That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say. ↗

— Lou Reed

#believe #got #i #say #something

As long as we can tell stories about our ability to survive, the more we will hope, not self-destruct. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#about #hope #long #more #our

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. ↗

— George A. Romero

#catholic #classmates #funny #funny guy #guy

With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#just #kids #survive #three #trying

What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning. ↗

— Barbara de Angelis

#beings #challenges #drama #earth #human