19 Quotes by Richard Moe

There is no harder glass ceiling. Madeleine broke through it by working twice as hard as a lot of her male counterparts.

Hundreds of these irreplaceable cinemas have been demolished, and more close every year.

It became a house museum in the hands of a nonprofit organization without an adequate endowment. And this is unfortunately too common a practice. These houses really need endowments, because visitation alone will never support them.

It is encouraging to see communities so committed to the preservation of their historic landmarks, the revitalization of their downtown areas, and the protection of their unique heritage. These 12 communities represent a truly distinctive slice of America that makes them exciting alternatives to the homogenization of many other vacation spots.

We either save them now or we lose them forever,

The proliferation of the chain theater has made it tough for independent historic theaters to book first-run movies and stay economically viable,

This swath of land has soaked up more of the blood, sweat and tears than any other region in the country.

There is a built-in incentive to demolish. The first instinct after natural disasters is almost always to demolish buildings. It is almost always wrong.

We all know Katrina is one of the greatest human tragedies in the nation's history - but it could also be the greatest cultural catastrophe America has ever experienced. Rebuilding is essential, but it must acknowledge the historic character of one of the nation's most distinctive regions.