Heritage Protection Quotes

“Any self-defense situation has the potential to quickly become A 'life and death' situation, therefore your practice of martial arts should be undertaken, as if your very life depends on it . . .”
― Soke Behzad Ahmadi, Legacy of A Sensei

“When Design become Useless it becomes Art. Yesterday's Artisans are today's Artists.”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“Tell me you're bare underneath the dress."
She gulped. "I'm bare underneath this dress."
Gently dropping her arms back to her sides, he slid his finger down the center of her chest. Tingles shot out from the tips of her breasts and gathered at the base of her spine, between her legs. "Tell me you want me as much as I want you," he said, his voice husky.
Never had she imagined doing something as reckless as sleeping with a guy for one night. But this wasn't any guy. And it wasn't just about her getting off--God, how she needed to do that. It was about closure. Saying goodbye on her terms. It might be a bad idea, but it was the best bad idea she'd ever had.
She dropped the panties and put her hands on his chest.
"I want you.”
― Robin Bielman, Take a Risk Bundle

“If I stay, it’s going to be in your bed.”
Her pounding heart relaxed, the fear that he’d reject her floating away like tiny grains of sand in the wind. “I know.”
“And we’re not going to sleep.”
“I’m good with that, too.”
― Robin Bielman, Take a Risk Bundle

“Balancing the competing needs of development and economic progress with a country’s history and heritage, and the building of a common national identity, will continue to be important. We can and must do more to preserve our history and heritage in a rapidly changing environment, and find ways to pass the stories of our pioneers to the next generation.”
― Shawn Seah, Seah Eu Chin - His Life & Times

“Our unique past connects us with our present, like an anchor providing ballast in the waters of an uncertain world.”
― Shawn Seah, My Father's Kampung: A History of Aukang and Punggol

“My date the next night brought a sock puppet with him. A. Sock. Puppet. And he talked to me with it"...
"It completely freaked me out," Kalani continued. "I made it through drinks and that was more than enough. I told the guy it was a good thing he had one good hand left because if this was his usual MO for dates, he was going to need it.”
― Robin Bielman, Take a Risk Bundle

“His dimples should come with an advisory label: Will cause hearts to flutter and panties to spontaneously combust.”
― Robin Bielman, Take a Risk Bundle

“I want to be in the water with you again, nani girl." Her knees went weak and trembles raced down her spine. Beautiful girl had been a special nickname only he used.”
― Robin Bielman, Take a Risk Bundle

“I'll never look at cake the same way again," he whispered in her ear.”
― Robin Bielman, Take a Risk Bundle

“Heritage is the conventional, if lightweight, motive for the preservation of megalithic monuments – but spirituality is the harder motive to admit to, even though it is the deeper of the two, provided it remains true to the prehistoric builders’ awe of the natural world.”
― Mark Crutchfield, Earthwork

“If you try to bury the recent past, those who lived it might throw the dirt back in your face.”
― Rupert Mann, Pentridge: Voices From the Other Side

“History is not just about words in a book, or merely stories of people long gone. History is a living story that exists alongside us. Every now and then, it is reinvigorated and becomes part of our daily lives.”
― Shawn Seah, Leader and Legislator: Seah Liang Seah

“If the kampung spirit is gone, like the physical kampung, we may only have
ourselves to blame.”
― Shawn Seah, My Father's Kampung: A History of Aukang and Punggol

“Yes, we can forgive, but we must remember the past.”
― Shawn Seah, My Father's Kampung: A History of Aukang and Punggol

“A main street? Depends on its name.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“Authentic Moroccan heritage has a strong immunity to foreign cultures, so that it accepts openness without being affected by any external culture. We must sustain and consolidate this immunity in order to preserve our identity as Moroccans.”
― Mohammed Tijani Nassiri

“But it is not just Western youth who will be destroyed due to this madness; it is Western Civilisation that will crumble as a result.
What took millennia to build and shape will be broken apart in mere decades. Traditions and cultures that were passed down from
generation to generation and have evolved and existed for thousands of years will be forgotten and lost. The rich Western
heritage, history and Western way of life will all be washed away within a century of madness.”
― Mark Collett, The Fall of Western Man