Top 99 Preserving Quotes

If you leave government life for greener private sector pastures, why on earth do you still need to peep into the nether reaches of national secrets unless you’re either addicted to preserving that special power or you plan on making sweet cash off your top secret stash?

We know there is a deep reservoir of food wisdom out there, or else humans would not have survived to the extent we have. Much of this food wisdom is worth preserving and reviving and heeding.

There is one simple Divinity found in all things, one fecund Nature, preserving mother of the universe insofar as she diversely communicates herself, casts her light into diverse subjects, and assumes various names.

Our efforts to preserve and protect the Alamo are first and foremost about preserving and protecting the story of the battle itself.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

The last refuge of privacy cannot be placed solely in law or technology. It must repose in both, and a thoughtful combination of the two can help us thread a path between having all our secrets trivially discoverable and preserving nothing for our later selves for fear of that discovery.

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.

We are as good judges of our interest and safety, and the means of preserving them, as the non-slaveholding States are of theirs, and rather better than they can be of ours.

In practice, presidents have typically tended to think of themselves not just as stewards for their party, but also of the presidency itself – preserving the full scope of its constitutional power for their successors is part of their job.

So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.

I think one of the things that we have to remember is that Egypt ancient history is so vast, and there are so many tombs and mummies that the field of Egyptology really is about the science and the work of conserving and preserving these artifacts.

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

In 1971, near the middle of Nixon’s first term, he approved a plan to install a White House taping system as a way of preserving an accurate chronicle of important discussions and decisions. Except for Nixon, three aides, and the Secret Service, no one knew about the listening devices.

Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there… If you’re working correctly, the feeling doesn’t wander about.

I am working hard to provide solutions to meet a most pressing goal: preserving our way of life for our kids and grandkids.

There are people walking around the streets of Kansas City who are unemployed, while one of our largest employers is not only sending jobs aboard, but then turning around and making a statement about preserving jobs.

I love to collect guitars made in the 1950s. I like preserving and playing them.

The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own and were totally inexperienced in organization, and that they won their fight in about two generations, makes a story often dramatic and always worth preserving.

True, Putin’s Russia does not dream of joining the E.U., but Russia’s stability depends on preserving the European nature of its regime.

To the veterans in Mississippi and across the nation, thank you for your bravery and commitment to preserving this great country. I am truly honored and humbled by your service.

From the practical point of view, the susceptibility to infection of the guinea pig proved to be the most useful step forward. Today, all laboratories use this animal for preserving the virus.

I’ve noticed that most people tend to go through life preserving their differences from others.

I love art that haunts me, that stays with me, that is left embedded in my mind. I don’t really think there is any use for owning or collecting art; it is more about remembering and preserving it in the minds eye and allowing it into your cultural DNA.

By preventing dangerous asteroid strikes, we can save millions of people, or even our entire species. And, as human beings, we can take responsibility for preserving this amazing evolutionary experiment of which we and all life on Earth are a part.

The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.

Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things.

For better or worse, I’ve always tried to march to my own drum and tell it like it is, while preserving some integrity and style. God, I’m fabulous!

I have always been vocal about preserving water and living a nature-friendly life.

Unfortunately, I’ve been bad at preserving things I’d written as a kid.

Requiring the Fed to focus on preserving the purchasing power of the dollar will create a solid foundation for economic growth.

Preserving a river or a creek can bring a lot of revenue.

It’s hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security.

By ‘justice’, I understand nothing more than that bond which is necessary to keep the interest of individuals united, without which men would return to their original state of barbarity. All punishments which exceed the necessity of preserving this bond are, in their nature, unjust.

That childhood passion and involvement and being really submerged in something, that’s the kind of state I’m looking for all the time – and preserving that sense of magical possibility and wonder that children have. I think, for artists, if you can stay connected to that, then you are in a good place.

In my humble opinion, preserving racial purity isn’t a worthwhile goal. You should be able to date whomever, whenever, wherever without the threat of a backlash.

I concentrate in my work on preserving and displaying the original flavor from each ingredient in a dish.

I don’t want my own life to be solely about preserving my parents’ lives.

It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.

Whoever wants me to talk, I’ll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.

We can see the weather change, that the birds don’t come to the city anymore… we seriously have to think about preserving nature.

After the 1929 crash, the Federal Reserve mistakenly focused its policies on preserving the gold value of the dollar rather than on stabilizing the domestic economy.

I am passionate about preserving the rights and opportunities of current and future Americans. That has meant fighting to stop global warming.

In the end, I am confident that we can revise our rules to provide necessary and appropriate flexibility for local broadcasters while preserving and/or improving the experience of those watching children’s programming.

Demanding that our leaders take action on climate change is about a lot more than polar bears and ice caps; it’s about safeguarding our health, preserving our prosperity, and protecting the future of our children.

There’s a lot that’s wrong with the way we work – bad habits that develop around control of information, people hoarding information as a means of preserving their own power. When you’re using Slack, everyone can see what’s going on because the default mode is public.

Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

The whole basis of conserving is not about nature – it is about people. If we don’t look after the people surrounding the place, and if they don’t have the value of preserving it in their pockets, then they are not going to preserve it.

Over many years, I have been a supporter of the National Trust and the vital work that they do in preserving our heritage and landscapes – long may this continue.

Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth.

The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect.