The history of survival is written under my lids

“we’re the start of an amazing, dumbfounding history of survival that will only get better as the centuries pass.”

— Ray Bradbury

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

— Ken Burns

Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written by many…

— Bill Vaughan

In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

“To have endured horrors, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life made unrecognizable by it, to come out of all…

— Ransom Riggs

For now, I'm supposing that all movements are equal, which they're not, except in this respect: that none of them gives a damn about…

— Wilfrid Sheed

The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.

— Elias Canetti

I'm not being presumptuous, I hope, when I say that 'The Crown' is little bit like 'The Godfather.' It is essentially about a family…

— Peter Morgan

There was the natural human survival instinct to be optimistic.

— Barbara Demick

The prime communities of the Southwest are survival communities. Their sustenance is governed by rainfall and wind direction. You can study little enclaves of…

— Antoine Predock

“There was no such thing as a fair fight. All vulnerabilities must be exploited.”

— Cary Caffrey

“Good morning,” one of the soldiers said. “I’m Captain Joseph Walker and this is Sergeant James Vanetten. We are members of the One-Hundred-and-First Airborne…

— Shafter Bailey

The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever faced. Our…

— Jim Wright

Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.

— Martha Gellhorn

I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African…

— Jesmyn Ward