The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.Quote by M. H. Abrams about survival, humanity
Democracy survives not only because people vote, but because most citizens (including most especially well-educated elites) really do believe in the values that undergird it.Quote by Maggie Gallagher about democracy, faith, people
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?Quote by Cesare Pavese about children, recollection, imagination, faith, world, life
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.Quote by Bruce Lee about opinion