Richard Dawkins Quotes

The stuff that's good is the stuff that lives on.

I can't say that I deserve longlife; I don't. I've just been around long enough. They say, "My God, she's still here."

If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. The guarantee of continuity is quality.

Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do is this life is to let himself die.

I have a strong preference for being alive.

The good ideas will survive.

You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.

I guess if you stay around long enough, they can't get rid of you.

Nature abhors annihilation.

I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say.

Quality survives.

I want to be around a really long time. I want to be a thorn in the side of everything as long as possible.

If your subjects are eternal... they'll survive.

Trust me: all of us walk around and look at each other, and without saying it, we all know we're thinking, 'Really dude? Were still here!' and pinch ourselves. Typically, careers have short life span, 10 years if you're lucky, so what we've done is amazing.

Books are sharks... because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark.

You have to prove that you know what you're doing. You have to have longevity. You have to stay around.

You may come and go, but the real test is to see how long one can manage to stay in the game.

I take pride in staying in the game.

I would like the Hunter Foundation to outlive everything.

While we breathe, we will hope.

There will be today, there will be tomorrow, there will be always, and there was yesterday, and there was the day before.

She sits down and puts her hand to her chest and rocks. Thinks of all she has lost and will lose. All she has had and will have. It seems to her that life is like gathering berries into an apron with a hole. Why do we keep on? Because the berries are beautiful, and we must eat to survive. We catch what we can. We walk past what we lose for the promise of more, just ahead.

Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death.

And there is no living creature, though the whims of eons had put its eyes on boggling stalks and clamped it in a carapace, diminished it to a pinpoint and given it a taste for mud and stuck it down a well or hid it under a stone, but that creature will live on if it can.

Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.