Preserves

Famous quotes containing the word preserves:

“When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.”
—Léon Blum (1872–1950)

“Probably I should not consciously and deliberately forsake my particular calling to do the good which society demands of me, to save the universe from annihilation; and I believe that a like but infinitely greater steadfastness elsewhere is all that now preserves it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence—a lot passes you by—simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.”
—Anita Brookner (b. 1938)