Preserving History Quotes

Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

No people can live in the past - not even in its own past. But if it no longer has a link with its history, it must of necessity perish. Persia, crowded with hardship and glory, ordeals and hopes. With the help of the Almighty, the lessons of the past constitute the best guide for the citizens of the future.

We need not destroy the past. It is gone.

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.'

To collect photographs is to collect the world.

I tend to believe that film can try to save what still can be saved, in terms of our histories, our memories. Because a lot of things are disappearing very quickly, things are changing. We are living in very quick times, and we have a new generation who basically know nothing about events 30 years ago.

If the legends fall silent, who will teach the children of our ways?

Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.

It is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country.

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.

The idea that somehow the way forward is to abandon the past, to me, is preposterous and both undesirable and unrealistic.

I realize the importance of retelling those stories is so that, one, we don't forget what our ancestors had to do so we can be where we are, and two, to just educate the newer generation. I'm being educated by all these films ['Race' and 'Selma'] and the things I've had the opportunity to be a part of, and kids even younger than me are being educated, too. It's important to make sure those stories never die.

The last remaining thing that must be communicated to the next generation is an aging figure that still continues to change.

But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.

Man was very fortunate to have invented the book. Without it, the past would completely vanish, and we would be left with nothing, we would be naked on earth.

I have little children, 5 1/2 and 1 1/2, and I thought I should document my life, because by the time they're in the mid-20s, they'll be able to say, 'This is what he did.'

It's like we're suffering from an identity crisis, and that identity is in our arts and the fact that we don't find it chief amongst our agendas to teach our kids who we are as a nation and the battles we've had on this ground and how they've been successfully resolved. We can't enjoy the fruits of the labor of our ancestors.

Honour what is most beautiful about the past and build it into the promise of the future.

A lot of people believe that you don't need to know the history and that creates newness. I disagree: we should always be informed and then destroy it.

If you expect the present day school system to give history to you, you are dreaming. This, we have to do ourselves. The Chinese didn't go out in the world and beg people to teach Chinese studies or let them teach Chinese studies. The Japanese didn't do that either. People don't beg other people to restore their history; they do it themselves.

Both my father and I remodeled our homes but were quite careful about preserving the history and unique character of the community.

Building the future, and keeping the past alive - are one and the same thing.

The concept of preserving history, collating full archives, making them as usable as possible so the public have access to them, I really feel that it allows the public an ability to engage with their own history.