Clarence Day Quotes

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

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.

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

It may not be art, but it is history.

How to save the old that's worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.

I am very concerned about our national heritage, and I am very concerned that the films that I watched when I was young and the films that I watched throughout my life are preserved, so that my children can see them.

I was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved.

In the past, a great library was the result of librarians functioning as guardians of culture, tending and caring, selecting and recommending works that maintained and nurtured a cultural heritage.

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.

Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.

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

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

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.

We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights which they have delivered to our care. We owe it to our posterity not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed.

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

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

People looked up to us for our values and leadership. But today, they laugh as we are busy debating whether one of the seven wonders of the world, the Taj Mahal, was actually built by Indians.

A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine.

I'm the black dude that loves old black culture. I also love old white culture. I just love history, but I'm the guy that wants to bring things back and push them forward.

The world that birthed that story is long gone, all its people are dead, but it continues to touch the present and future because someone cared enough about that world to keep it. To put it in words. To remember it.

I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.

I want to be remembered as someone who tried to bring the story of our ancestors to the broadest possible audience. I want to be remembered as a man who loved his race.

Preserve your history and become everlasting; receive new life from the times that have gone by.

When you're entrusted with a tradition, you've got to protect it.