Donna Tartt Quotes

People should make a stand for the things they love and want to see survive infinite generations.

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

I really don’t make history; I preserve it.

Each one of us is a custodian of India's well-being and of the legacy that we will pass on to coming generations.

Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings.'

Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.

Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.

We cannot afford to neglect some recognition of our past, even though we gaze into the future.

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom.

It is for all these buildings, therefore, of all times and styles, that we plead, and call upon those who have to deal with them to put Protection in the place of Restoration, to stave off decay by daily care, to prop a perilous wall or mend a leaky roof by such means as are obviously meant for support or covering, and show no pretence of other art, and otherwise to resist all tampering with either the fabric or ornament of the building as it stands; if it has become inconvenient for its present use, to raise another building rather than alter or enlarge the old one; in fine to treat our ancient buildings as monuments of a bygone art, created by bygone manners, that modern art cannot meddle with without destroying.

The Past, The Present, For the Future

The desire to restore everything indiscriminately to its ancient condition is neither wise nor praiseworthy.

Architecture is a political art connecting our values to the ages.

Commemorating the present and looking forward to a more promising future has always depended on learning from the past..

The only legacy I seek is the one that any grandparent seeks - that is, to hand off our nation... our fields and our farms to the next generation in better shape than we found it.

These guys from the past really motivate me, much respect to the guys before me and the ones after me.

We should not fear what is new, but we should not throw out that which is in the past but is still valuable.

I've become obsessed with preserving Shaker furniture. I feel as though every influence in my life, everything I've learned and know, all the money I've made, has come together to take care of it.

I want to make sure people are connected with the future as well as the past.

I'm a storyteller. I do this for the next generations. They have to know what traditional alpinism is all about.

Only the very best clubs are able to pass the baton of continuity down through the generations.

My generation is now the door to memory. That is why I am remembering.

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. Old families, old customs, old styles survive because they are fit to survive. The guarantee of continuity is quality. Submerge the good in a flood of the new, and good will come back to join the good which the new brings with it. Old-fashioned hospitality, old-fashioned politeness, old-fashioned honor in business had qualities of survival. These will come back.