Quotes About Inscription

No day shall erase you from the memory of time. An inscription on a wall from 911 by Virgil Aeneid.

But one item was left behind in Kansas, to be discovered in 1886: a Spanish sword from Coronado's expedition, inscribed with the name of its owner, Juan Gallegos, and on the blade these words: "Do not draw me without right. Do not sheath me without honor." Here at once is summed up the essential chivalry of the Conquistadors.

Una mujer se acercó a donde yo estaba y me jaló del brazo conduciéndome hasta el fondo del bar: allí me señaló una inscripción en el muro que decía: ¨Antes de nacer estábamos exactamente aquí.¨

Love is written by the soul.

Perhaps one day someone from a distant land will listen to this story of mine. Isn't this what lies behind the desire to be inscribed in the pages of a book? Isn't it just for the sake of this delight that sultans and viziers proffer bags of gold to have their histories written?

On the back of Sir Richard Frances Burton's compass he engraved an inscription from the Qur'an: Travel through the earth and see what was the end of those who rejected Truth.

A change in paperwork [birth certificate] can't erase words stamped on the human heart.

Think before you ink!

An angel writing in a book of gold.

The well-known Latin phrase—meaning "praise God"—was inscribed on the tip of the Washington Monument in script letters only one inch tall. On full display . . . and yet invisible to all. Laus

He was all surface, written on by those who'd pass him, like a love hotel diary.

Facing me was a stone pillar, half hidden in the grass, some worn hieroglyphs carved down its side. The hillside rose right behind in a tangle of trees. Laboriously I read the characters one by one: 'Old — Barrier — of — Shirakawa'. It had taken me five and a half hours.

It was written in the ancient RUNIX spell-language, and is read-only and can't be modified.

Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights.

The letters I had inscribed on it were not even dry yet and already they belonged to the past.

write the past in disappearing ink

This love is a lichen.... etching on the unmoved rock the only rune it knows.

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.

The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, "The work of Chloe." How could she have expressed herself more plainly?

Every fact in this world, the God of the Bible claims, has His stamp indelibly engraved upon it.

We don't know what inscriptions Washington's nephew found on the tombs of their early Virginian ancestors. But we do know what Washington's ancestors ultimately put on his Mount Vernon tomb. Should you visit Washington's tomb at Mount Vernon, you will read "I am the resurrection and the Life." (John 11:25), the very first words of the funeral service in the Book of Common Prayer.

Fitzhugh wasn't immune to the desire that's in most people to spray graffiti on the cold rock of the world and say "I was here and what I did counted for something.

Public art claiming to represent our collective memory is just as often a work of historical erasure and political manipulation. It is just as often the violent inscription of myth over truth, a form of "over-writing"—one story overlaid and thus obscuring another—modeled in three dimensions

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