Mary Pilon Quotes

This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

The future of that ancient chamber remains in considerable doubt.

High among the unpredictable variables that endanger the survival of worthy buildings are the vagaries of taste.

With each passing decade, history becomes less real for us, less immediate and essential to our way of life, and so, like 'green' nature, more of a commodity or an advertising gimmick.

One of the brilliant things about Britain is the way you've managed to save old things but to keep using them - that they've not just become museums the way they do in the United States.

I don't think you can separate a place from its history. I think a place is much more than the bricks and mortar that go into its construction. I think it's more than the accidental topography of the ground it stands on.

It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.

I like places that have history in the sense of - you feel responsible to it.

There are huge pluses in Scottish archaeology that you simply don't get elsewhere. Partly that's to do with the tragedy of the clearances, and that so much of the landscape has been owned by so few people that didn't want it messed around with.

You see all these old buildings [in Rio] going down or catching fire overnight, and it is so sad. I am very connected with these buildings because they are our history. It is the only one that we have.

I think the whole, like, cultural diversity and the arty side of London is really, really great. And how it's so historic as well.

We've got to map all of our ancient history before it's gone because, let's face it, if we don't have a common heritage to share, something to get excited about, then what are we living for?

Typically, an historic site is considered by the National Park Service to contain a single historical feature, while generally a National Historic Park extends beyond single properties or buildings.

I wanted to go back to Sun. Unfortunately, most of the gear is gone from Sun. The way I take it now, it's almost like a tourist destination. So, it would have been pretty difficult to have brought all the gear into Sun to make it like it was in the '50's.

It's still possible to find pockets of old Dublin - but its becoming more and more rarified.

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

Without an understanding of history, we are politically, culturally and socially impoverished. If we sacrifice history to economic pressures or to budget cuts, we will lose a part of who we are.

I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.

The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is.

We must teach our people the greatness of China's historical culture. In our educational program we must stress Chinese history and geography so that all may know and appreciate China's civilization of five thousand years and the far-flung boundaries of our ancient race. This will engender a greater faith in our own future.

These places, and the ancient things you know, You won't know soon. I'm working on it now.'

A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational, and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.

In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.

Much has been said and continues to be said of what little concern the Turks had for the Acropolis treasures.