Quotes About Inscription

Abandon hope all ye who enter here.

ds mnibus: for this phrase, commonly abbreviated D. M., see "Epitaph of a Young Boy," in Capvt VII.—fcit: sc. id, i.e., the monument.

So I be written in the Book of Love, I have no care about that book above; Erase my name, or write it, as you please - So I be written in the Book of Love.

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?"

I'll note you in my book of memory.

Each of them also had a white lacquered tablet hanging on his belt; on one was the inscription Shifty-and-Freaky, and on the other, Freaky-and-Shifty.

Viradecthis is an obscure (possibly Germanic) goddess, the meaning of whose name is uncertain. The name may be derived from the words wiro meaning "truth" and dekos meaning "honour", giving a possible meaning of something like "She who honours truth". An inscription to her was found at Birrens set up by the Condrusi, a Germanic tribe serving in the Roman army.[605]

The Gezer Calendar is a limestone inscription from the mid- or late 900s B.C., thought to be the earliest survival of written Hebrew. Discovered in A.D. 1908 at the site of the ancient city of Gezer in what is now southern Israel, the "calendar" briefly lists the months of the year by farming duties.

I Woz 'ere! The most profound 3 words in language.

It is in this marvellous transformation of clods and cold matter into living things that the joy and the hope of summer reside. Every blade of grass, each leaf, each separate floret and petal, is an inscription speaking of hope. So that my hope becomes as broad as the horizon afar, reiterated by every leaf, sung on every bough, reflected in the gleam of every flower.

Dort sind Runen, die durch den Rubin leuchten, doch ich kann sie nicht lesen!« »Ich kann sie lesen«, teilte uns Zokora mit. Wir schauten sie fragend an. »Und?«, fragte ich sie ungeduldig, als sie nichts sagte. »Was steht dort?« »Bitte dreimal läuten.«

Someone would cut his name into the face of a tombstone and it would be as if he never was.

human handprint made about 30,000 years ago, on the wall of the Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave in southern France. Somebody tried to say, 'I was here!

The Overtakelessness of Those Who have accomplished Death - Majestic is to me beyond The majesties of Earth - The Soul her Not at Home Inscribes upon the Flesh - And takes a fine aerial gait Beyond the Writ of Touch.

All that will remain of us is what is written down.

The inscription in your wedding band says 'forever,' Callie. And it means forever. I'll love you until I close my eyes for the last time. And even afterward, I'll love you.

The Grand Canyon is carven deep by the master hand; it is the gulf of silence, widened in the desert; it is all time inscribing the naked rock; it is the book of earth.

As on all Viroleda blades, the traditional inscription: 'Draw me not without reason; sheath me not without honour.

Come su tutte le lame di Viroleda, vi è inciso: 'Non sguainarla senza ragione, non rinfoderarla senza onore'. Ah! A Viroleda continuano a incidere questa iscrizione. Ma in tutto il mondo queste lame finiscono in mano a farabutti e a sciocchi. In tutto il mondo l'onore è sceso di prezzo, perché al giorno d'oggi è una merce difficile da vendere...

PÃ…â"¢istoupil jsem blíž a na desce vidím nápis. Dost kostrbatý. Znal jsem kdysi lu?iÅ¡tníka, který dovedl do snÄ›hu vymo?it hez?í runy.

The earliest inscriptions in Hebrew date from the tenth BCE.

The inscription of King Mar'alqais , found south of Damascus and dated at 328 CE, is usually said to be the first document in Arabic.

Writing for the page is only one form of writing for the eye. Wherever solemn inscriptions are put up in public places, there is a sense that the site and the occasion demand a form of writing which goes beyond plain informative prose. Each word is so valued that the letters forming it are seen as objects of solemn beauty.

Proverbs 7:1, 3: "Treasure my commands. . . . Write them on the tablet of your heart.