Quotes About Inscription

Along its walls were endless bibliothekai, a term which originally designated not the room but the shelves or niches for the scrolls. Above the shelves there was an inscription: The place of the cure of the soul.

The symbol of art is the tombstone, thought Darconville, an obelisk sticking up out of the earth with the inscription, "I count!

Georg Grotefend began systematically translating the trilingual Persian inscription of Darius the Great on the Behistun Rock, which included a version in Babylonian cuneiform.

It took several minutes, but he was meticulous about each letter. IN MEMRY OF THE STRANJER, it said. HE LIVD AND DID.

It was probably a coin of Tiberius with, around the edge, the words TI[BERIVS] CAESAR DIVI AVG[VSTI] F[ILIVS], "Tiberius, son of the divine Augustus," another son of a god;

I carved a name on a slab and placed it there. I knew not the day of his birth, but gave that of his death. His name, too, I placed there, although the place a man leaves is in the hearts of those he leaves behind, and in his work, not upon a slab Ã¢â'¬Â¦

a quotation that had been her favorite, written by the poet she most admired. Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality. Unbeknownst to Jet, Franny had added another line beneath her sister's name. Beloved by all.

YOUR NAME IS WRITTEN IN HEAVEN

Epitaph, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

His name shall endure for ever.

Almost overnight, the streets glow with meaning. She reads inscriptions on coins, on cornerstones and tombstones, on lead seals and buttress piers and marble plaques embedded into the defensive walls—each twisting lane of the city a great battered manuscript in its own right.

A syllabary is a system in which each syllable of the language is represented by its own sign.

TO THE FIRST WORM TO GNAW THE COLD FLESH OF MY CORPSE I TENDERLY DEDICATE THESE POSTHUMOUS MEMOIRS

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

The cemetery has ... an inscription: 'Though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death I will Fear No Evil, For Thou Art With Me.' Yes, it does feel deceptively safer with two; but Thou is a slippery character. Every Thou I've known has had a way of going missing.

I swam, the sea was boundless, I saw no shore. Tanit was merciless, my prayers were answered. O you who drown in love, remember me. —INSCRIPTION ON A CARTHAGINIAN FUNERARY URN

And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.

This inscription most likely applied to Mary's claim to the English throne

See, I have written your name on the palms of my hands. —Isaiah 49:16

My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice. [ From the will of GBS ]

While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw. He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.

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

In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.

I often think of the library established by Plotina in Trajan's Forum, with that noble inscription placed by her order over its door: Dispensary to the Soul.