Mary Barra Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

All records are not made to be broken.

But I think it's important that things endure.

The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.

Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.

Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

It's important to evolve without ever straying too far from your roots and what established you.

You can see things growing up, be inspired by things. Just because they're not around anymore doesn't mean that you can't take those inspirations and bring them to life and bring them to the next generation.

We have to maintain the Krishnasthali.

Nothing is more conservative than conservation

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

This, milord, is my family's axe. We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a new blade. And sometimes it has required a new handle, new designs on the metalwork, a little refreshing of the ornamentation . . . but is this not the nine hundred-year-old axe of my family? And because it has changed gently over time, it is still a pretty good axe, y'know. Pretty good.

Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.

If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don't have to throw the past away.

That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.

I cannot let a place that is so important to so many people fade away. Something that is wonder and comfort and mystery all together that they have nowhere else. If you had that, wouldn't you want to keep it?

Tradition and heritage are all dead people's baggage, stop carrying it. Move forward.

Just remember, what the French say. No, probably not the French, they've got a president or something. The Brits, maybe, or the Swedes. You know what I mean?" "No, Matthew. What do they say?" "The king is dead, that's what they say. The king is dead. Long live the king.

What we've inherited from our ancestors has never existed to this extent before. And if we fail to preserve it, it will never, ever exist again. So we cannot fail.