Custodians Quotes

Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.

We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old routines on videotape. We are only the custodians of those techniques, and they should be preserved.

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.

Not only the Archivist alone but all who work for NARA are designated custodians of America's national memory.