Robert Stack Quotes

I do want to keep the Wedgewood Collection in place, intact, and open to the public. Selling it off would be a real tragedy.

It may not be art, but it is history.

I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.

I believe the National Park Service has demonstrated strong partnerships geared towards respecting the private property of citizens in its administering of the current Trail of Tears National Historic Trail and will continue to do so upon the addition of the routes.

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

India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.

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?

I was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved.

What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past.

The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations.

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.

I do not think that a museum needs to engage with pop culture in order to make itself interesting to museumgoers. Museums are already interesting and engaging with pop culture for its own sake is just a quick way to seem and become dated.

You don't restore 'The Last Supper' by filling in the missing bits - you preserve. You accept the material that has somehow survived.

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

It is not architectural achievement that makes the structures of earlier times seem to us so full of significance but the circumstance that antique temples, Roman basilicas, and even the cathedrals of the Middle Ages are not the works of single personalities but creations of entire epochs.

You don't let a historic site rot.

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.

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

The rites and festivals of each nation shall remain undisturbed and shall continue as before because they were given by the people of old times as useful and necessary for the good of men

Our ancient historical monuments are national property and ought no longer to be left to the mercy of the many and variable ideas of ecclesiastical propriety that may at any time be prevalent among us

The example which Massachusetts and New England offer in the retention of longstanding custom should be given very careful consideration before ruthlessly permitting it to be sacrificed for mercenary considerations.

It is of the essence of traditions that they cover or conceal their humble foundations by erecting impressive edifices on them.

You re being handed a national treasure. Your main responsibility is that whenever you may leave it, it still remains a national treasure.

That's what I want to do, ultimately: figure out a way to get the world engaged with discovery and protecting these ancient sites.

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