“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”

“A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.”

“By demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends."

Cultural differences should not separate us from each other, but rather cultural diversity brings a collective strength that can benefit all of humanity.”

“People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.”

“Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can’t even describe, aren’t even aware of.”

“The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural.”

“We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.”

“We have been the benefactors of our cultural heritage and the victims of our cultural narrowness.”

“Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.”

“If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.”

“The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.”

“Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.”

“Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.”

“For Indigenous peoples , the impact of separating us from our heritage goes directly to the heart that pumps life through our peoples. To expect a people to be able to enjoy their culture without their cultural heritage and their sacred belongings is equivalent to amputating their legs and digging up the ground and asking them to run a marathon.”

“Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as worthy of preserving as a sixteenth-century building.”