Famous quotes containing the words preserve, display and/or memory:
“The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes. It was from facing this vast hardness that the boys mouth had become so bitter; because he felt that men were too weak to make any mark here, that the land wanted to be let alone, to preserve its own fierce strength, its peculiar, savage kind of beauty, its uninterrupted mournfulness.”
—Willa Cather (18731947)
“Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he accommodates himself to a society in which it is not polite to display wit.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“Perhaps a man like you cant realize what it is to have a conscience and no memory at all. Do you imagine its pleasant to be ashamed of something you cant even remember?”
—Orson Welles (19151985)