Quotes About Preservation

A race preserves its vigour so long as it harbours a real contrast between what has been and what may be, and so long as it is nerved by the vigour to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.

One of the things my life has taught me is how important it is to try to say, "I love you" in ways that can be preserved, looked at, and read when you are alone or when there is adversity or when circumstances bring separation. In any case, . . . saying "I love you" is one of the "secrets" of the happy marriage that Ronnie and I have shared. Ronnie's letters move me to this day. They are his gift to me across the years, and throughout the decades of love.

Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force.

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which we seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

I believe it is our responsibility to make sure that Tupac's entire body of work is made available for his fans.

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.

The turntable is now an instrument at the Smithsonian.

I'd like to be remembered as a keeper of the flame who kept traditional music alive, because I've been doing that twice as long as I was in the Byrds.

Truly, what the Secret Service did for us is that they saved my dad's life twice.

Americans are conservative. What they want to conserve is the New Deal.

Today's Democrat Party believes that distinct American culture is corrupt, biased, racist, sexist, prejudicial, homophobic. There is nothing about it they want to preserve.

I've moved away from that sort of deep-ecological extremism. I started to think: what can we do for wild birds right now? I don't want these particular species to disappear.

The curse of cyberspace is that everything we want to preserve will get lost and everything we want to lose will be preserved.

Attacks on cities are strategically justified in so far as they tend to shorten the war and so preserve the lives of allied soldiers.

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist force, employed for its destruction, by force, for its preservation.

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

What is certain: it's good that those deeds have been marked and preserved. Imagine a world where the greatest crimes ever committed were consigned to dust. Where nothing acknowledged racist terror of any kind—the Holocaust, the genocides, the lynchings were left without a trace. Whatever helps us escape oblivion is welcome.