#surviving

College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school. ↗

— Judd Apatow

#fun #great #high #high school #most

Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images. ↗

— Lance Loud

#believe #culture #gauge #gay #homophobic

I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food. ↗

— Frank McCourt

#america #because #came #clothes #community

One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off. ↗

— Pat Oliphant

#does #down #every #go #good

We're just kinda surviving at a very comfortable level. ↗

— Bruce Johnston

#just #kinda #level #surviving #very

The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development. ↗

— William Kirby

#chinese #chinese government #development #economic #economic development

Simply surviving in this business is a feat. ↗

— Lou Diamond Phillips

#feat #simply #surviving

I'm sure it really is hard to be an oncologist, and actually, more and more people are surviving cancer. ↗

— Marcia Wallace

#cancer #hard #i #more #more and more

She looked up. "What I can't figure out is why the good things always end." "Everything ends." "Not some things. Not the bad things. They never go away." "Yes, they do. If you let them, they go away. Not as fast as we'd like sometimes, but they end too. What doesn't end is the way we feel about each other. Even when you're all grown up and somewhere else, you can remember what a good time we had together. Even when you're in the middle of bad things and they never seem to be changing, you can remember me. And I'll remember you. ↗

— Torey Hayden

#change

But I also knew that if he turned away from me at this moment, somehow I would survive that, and I would find a way to flourish like the yard that still bloomed and grew around my family home. I'm Sookie Stackhouse. I belong here. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#flourishing #survival #surviving #family