Preservation Quotes

345 Preservation quotes by 279 unique authors

What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. . .… — Benjamin Franklin
Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health. — Baruch Spinoza
The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild, and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness… — Henry David Thoreau
It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature. — Mary Wollstonecraft
Will we be extremists for hate, or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice, or will we… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I endeavored to give thanks to our Heavenly Father for all his mercies to me, for his preservation of me through all the dangers I… — Robert E. Lee
The only [child welfare] systems that succeed emphasize family preservation. — Richard Wexler
It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this heritage, the congress… — Robert Byrd
A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for… — Mark Twain
He who governs himself according to what he calls his principles may be punished either by one party or the other for those very principles.… — J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur
After independence was gained, one of the first Acts passed by the Greek government was for the protection and preservation of national monuments. — Melina Mercouri
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. — Gustav Mahler
Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of what is called… — Ludwig von Mises
Earth Day is the first holy day which transcends all national borders, yet preserves all geographical integrities, spans mountains and oceans and time belts, and… — Margaret Mead
That mainstream English is essential to our self-preservation is indisputable . . . but it is not necessary to abandon Spoken Soul to master Standard… — Unknown Author
The preservation of health is easier than the cure for disease. — B. J. Palmer
The best introductory guide to forestry practices and the issues surrounding the preservation of American forests. — Unknown Author
At Carnegie Hall the Preservation Hall Jazz Band showed how easily it could hop from era to era. It could work like a rhythm-and-blues horn… — Jon Pareles
The purpose of the memorial is to communicate the founding, expansion, preservation, and unification of the United States with colossal statues of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln,… — Gutzon Borglum
Food that is necessary for man’s existence is as sacred as life itself. Everything that is indispensable for its preservation is the common property of… — Maximilien Robespierre
How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health! — Henry David Thoreau
Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for the preservation of… — Arthur Schopenhauer
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable. — St. Jerome
Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the labour having been,… — Francis Bacon
Many, and some of the most pressing, of our terrestrial problems can be solved only by going into space. Long before it was a vanishing… — Arthur C. Clarke

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