Preservation Quotes · Page 13

When you think of pristine preservation of America, you immediately think of Tulsa and Oklahoma.

— Mark Shields

“I worry that if we don’t act quickly, the delicate balance of nature will be lost.”

— Suman Pokhrel

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

— Audre Lorde

I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.

— Jack L. Chalker

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

— Thomas Carlyle

Banks have a strong self-preservation instinct and are quick to adapt to new regulations.

— Herve Falciani

Moderate labor of the body conduces to the preservation of health, and cares many initial diseases.

— William Harvey

Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.

— W. Somerset Maugham

This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve.

— George W. Bush

The way to build long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs.

— Stanley Druckenmiller

With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of…

— Thorstein Veblen

What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we! It seems…

— Pietro Aretino

You can't be everybody's friend, you can't save the world, I learned this word: self-preservation. Once you do that, you can be…

— Mike Tyson

There can be no doubt that our descendants will learn to exploit the energy of fusion for peaceful purposes even before its…

— Lev Artsimovich

“The creation of man is evidence for the love of God, the preservation of man is evidence for the patience of God,…

— Criss Jami

Everybody has a hard job. All real work is hard. My work happened also to be undoable. Morning after morning for 50…

— Philip Roth

He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than…

— Walter Raleigh

Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which…

— Iris Murdoch

If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as…

— Herbert Marcuse

The human instinct for self-preservation is strong. I know, because mine pulls at me, too, like the needle on a compass. And…

— Nancy Werlin

If we've learned any lessons during the past few decades, perhaps the most important is that preservation of our environment is not…

— Ronald Reagan

Thus the law of nature stands as an eternal rule to all men, legislators as well as others. The rules that they…

— John Locke

If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves. It were contrary to…

— Thomas Jefferson

... if variations useful to any organic being do occur, assuredly individuals thus characterized will have the best chance of being perserved…

— Charles Darwin

And say, finally, whether peace is best preserved by giving energy to the government or information to the people. This last is…

— Thomas Jefferson

We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The…

— Rachel Carson

Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.

— Ed Rendell

If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it.

— Agnes Macphail

Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, - the fear instinct.

— Boris Sidis

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

I have to say, music was always my self preservation survival technique. This sort of sacred space in my life and in…

— Jon Gordon

Love the woods and nature and the water and animals. Stop the BS with poaching and hunting. Preservation is critical.

— Taylor Dane

Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than…

— Jodi Picoult

Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.

— Murray Gell-Mann

As far as keeping my sanity, it's something I've only recently tried to focus on as a means of self-preservation.

— Anthony Green

“These 'Instructions' were held in high esteem as text-books and writing exercises in schools—a circumstance to which we owe the preservation of…

— Ptahhotep

Armies for the preservation of peace do not exist; they exist only for the triumphant exertion of war.

— Adolf Hitler

The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.

— Fisher Ames

A good starting point [in the measurement of investment risk] is the preservation and enhancement of your purchasing power in real terms.

— David Dreman

Economic dynamism can be combined with environmental and social responsibility. High financial returns can go hand in hand with respect for human…

— David Miliband