Preserve

Famous quotes containing the word preserve:

    “Struggle is the father of all things.... It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.”
    —Adolf Hitler (1889–1945)

    “In almost all climes the tortoise and the frog are among the precursors and heralds of this season, and birds fly with song and glancing plumage, and plants spring and bloom, and winds blow, to correct this slight oscillation of the poles and preserve the equilibrium of nature.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Those who guard their mouths preserve their lives; those who open wide their lips come to ruin.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 13:3.