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Quotes About Preservation

He made what apology he could and hurried home, glad that the satisfaction of his curiosity had preserved their love intact, and that, having feigned for so long a sort of indifference towards Odette, he had not now, by his jealousy, given her the proof that he loved her too much, which, between a pair of lovers, for ever dispenses the recipient from the obligation to love enough. He
~ Marcel Proust
Uma vez criado, o conhecimento não pode ser calado jamais. Sempre haverá aqueles que lutarão para preservá-lo, difundi-lo, movidos por razões nobres ou perversas.
~ Marcelo Gleiser
Nature abhors annihilation.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word, once spoken, lingers forever; to keep peace we pretend to forget, but we never do. Strange that a spoken word can have such lasting power when words carved on stone monuments vanish in spite of all our efforts to preserve them. What we would lose persists, lodged in our minds, and what we would keep is lost to water, moths, moss.
~ Margaret George
We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
~ Margaret Mead
We are all living history, and it's hard to say now what will be important in the future. One thing's certain, though: if we throw it away, it's gone.
~ Marilyn Johnson
What was archaeology to him? It was the opposite of killing things. It was trying to will life back into stuff that had been forgotten and buried for thousands or millions of years. It was not about shards and pieces of bone or treasure; it was about kneeling down in the elements, paying very close attention, and trying to locate a spark of the human life that had once touched that spot there.
~ Marilyn Johnson
For those dependent on their gardens for fresh food, it was often a case of feast or famine... (One settler wrote), "Strawberries were now so plentiful that... I made 287 lbs of jam..."
~ Unknown
Wine is a successful effort to translate the perishable into the permanent.
~ John Arlott
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Freedom of thought and freedom of speech in our great institutions are absolutely necessary for the preservation of our country. The moment either is restricted, liberty begins to wither and die.
~ John Peter Altgeld
The right of personal freedom recedes before the duty to preserve the race.
~ Adolf Hitler
Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
Any outcome, any deal that doesn't preserve the freedom and openness of the Internet for consumers and entrepreneurs will be unacceptable.
~ Julius Genachowski
The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.
~ Francis Bacon
The preservation of friendship is seen as opportunism. You are required to be in one camp or the other. You are enjoined to cut your heartstrings if they extend across the barricade.
~ Jean Cocteau
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
~ Samuel Butler
We had too much camel in the fridge, so I tried some ways to preserve it.
~ Unknown
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice
~ Unknown
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction
~ Ronald Reagan
DRIED HERBS Oregano, thyme, sage, rosemary, and tarragon are decent substitutes for fresh. (Dried parsley, basil, and mint are worthless.) They keep for about 6 months.
~ Mark Bittman
We have a rule of thumb: The longer the shelf life of a food, the shorter the shelf life of the person eating the food! There are exceptions, of course—beans and whole grains keep forever—but it's worth bearing in mind.)
~ Mark Bittman
In every remote corner there are people like Carl Jones and Don Merton who have devoted their lives to saving them. Very often, their determination is all that stands between an endangered species and extinction.
~ Mark Carwardine
her lipstick was formaldehyde amber.
~ Unknown