Quotes About Inscription

Christianity in China from 150 years prior to the time of its inscription, circa 780.

I am like a ruined piece of parchment scrawled over and over again with your name, so many times it has become illegible.

Ciò che è inciso nel corpo non scompare.

Did you know that on one of the islands of Orkney, in the North of Scotland, there are some runes that when translated turned out to be Viking graffiti? Eight feet up a wall it says "A tall Viking wrote this." You gotta love that.

Wrotham had been inspired at the eleventh hour to send the flowers with the second of his messages in place of the first. Wear these, and I shall know what to think, ran the inscription on his lordship's card. This was going too fast for Miss Milborne, who felt that until she herself knew what to think it would be better for his lordship to remain in his present uninformed state.

Carved above the lintel were the words SCIENTIA POTESTAS EST. Science points east, I wondered? Science is portentous, yes? Science protests too much. Scientific potatoes rule. Had I stumbled on the lair of dangerous plant geneticists?

Speak, friend, and enter,

litera scripta manet.

Melted down, silver is worth a little more than four dollars an ounce. But carved, inlaid, and engraved, and identified with a particular year, it becomes the direct reflection, often the literal record, of human history, our movement through time.

I did once answer the question 'What would you say on your tombstone?' I know what I would say: 'Mario Cuomo, 1932 - dash,' and, 'He tried.' That's it.

Terry Eagleson says his family's aim was to have the words We Were No Trouble engraved on their gravestones.

Perhaps our deepest love is already inscribed within us, so its object doesn't create a new word but instead allows us to read the one written.

When I turned 18, my mom, my nana and I all went and had tattoos of our favorite Bible verses put on the inside of our wrists. Mine is 1st Timothy, 4:12.

I bent down to read the inscription: GSS—13th Floor—Vault #42–8675309.

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

The last name had been entered by Samuel Peters' agile pen with much shading of downward strokes and many extra corkscrew appendages...

We passed by the large chambers and, on the way back, I saw a big curtain at the entrance to the large chambers, a curtain used to cover the Ark containing the Torah Scrolls with the Shield of David on it, and on the curtain there was the inscription: "This is the gate of the Lord, through which the righteous shall enter.

even, like them, leave a name carved upon the wall.

What was unwritten then is inscribed into what I call myself.

The black-and-white figures of the photographs have had to stand in place of my memory and yet I have always felt that their unmarked graves became a part of me. What was unwritten then is inscribed into what I call myself.

To leave a whisper of myself in the world, my ghost, a magna opera of words.

Look, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; your walls are continually before Me. Isaiah 49:16

Littera scripta manet - 'The written word will remain'. That's true, but it won't be that much comfort to me.

What is there flattering, amusing, or edifying in their carving your name on a tombstone, then time rubbing off the inscription together with the gilding?