Quotes About Preserving History

#1. The concept of preserving history, collating full archives, making them as usable as possible so the public have access to them, I really feel that it allows the public an ability to engage with their own history.

Sarah Harrison

#2. I have learned that you're only relevant to someone if you're beneficial to them somehow/some way

Miguel

#3. Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.

Laozi

#4. Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun.

Babatunde Adebimpe

#5. The best way to get a good idea is to get a Lot of ideas. - LINUS PAULING

Thomas Kelley

#6. Both my father and I remodeled our homes but were quite careful about preserving the history and unique character of the community.

Peter Sperling

#7. Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as worthy of preserving as a sixteenth-century building.

Carlo Petrini

#8. Visibility gets people in the door, but your ability keeps them there.

Anonymous

#9. I agree with you that it is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country.

Thomas Jefferson

#10. When thinking harshly on the human condition, as I so often do, my antidote is to think gently on libraries, for if human beings are capable of preserving the history of our knowledge in the form of books, there there may still be hope.

Howard Norman

#11. I love their being as bound up in their history as they are, preserving their buildings instead of razing them to the ground to make way for another big beige building with lots of windows to throw yourself screaming from.

Carrie Fisher

#12. You read about me in history books, but now I am dedicated to spreading the truth about preserving the dignity of all human life from natural conception to natural death.

Norma McCorvey

#13. I urge you to pursue preserving your personal history to allow your children and grandchildren to know who you were as a child and what your hopes and dreams were.-

Oprah Winfrey

#14. They were creating a program on contemplative prayer called Be Still. They asked me to be a part of this project that was designed to help Americans see the importance of spending time before God in stillness. I knew immediately that God wanted me to be a part of the project.

Priscilla Shirer

#15. Kaye took another drag on her cigarette and dropped it into her mother's beer bottle. She figured that would be a good test for how drunk Ellen was
see if she would swallow a butt whole

Holly Black

#16. I was named for my grandmother. It's an evil-eye name, to protect you from bad things.

Stana Katic

#17. How's this for a punch line," she whispered, wetting her lips as her gaze fell to my mouth. The action made me forget to breathe. "Marry me today, and I'll stay the night again tonight, only this time instead of asking you to stop, I'll beg you not to.

Kelly Oram

#18. Self-discipline is often disguised as short-term pain, which often leads to long-term gains. The mistake many of us make is the need and want for short-term gains (immediate gratification), which often leads to long-term pain.

Charles F. Glassman

#19. Children born today-in both the industrialized world and developing countries-will live longer and be healthier, they will get more food, a better education, a higher standard of living, more leisure time and far more possibilities-without the global environment being destroyed.

Bjorn Lomborg

#20. For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might of white male corporate elites ...

Cornel West

#21. Preservation of the past has been one of humankind's chief preoccupations for centuries, although I am not convinced much of it is worth preserving.

Chris Flynn

#22. If I could embed a locator chip in my child right now, I know I would do that. Some people call that Big Brother; I call it being a father.

Scott McNealy

#23. The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they.

Plutarch

#24. The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

Jean-Henri Fabre

#25. And my mother always knew that, hence her Nikon raised high and pointed right into the mirror. She sensed that by documenting her own body, she was preserving her history. Beautifully. Nakedly. Imperfectly. Her private experiment made way for my public one.

Lena Dunham

#26. She looks just as music sounds, I think,' answered Anne.

L.M. Montgomery

#27. People do strange things sometimes, when they feel hopeless.

Danielle Steel

#28. An important part of what the state does is preserving its history.

James R. Thompson