Quotes About Timeless

People are starting to refer to 'The Giver' as a classic, but I don't know how that is defined. But if it means that 10, 20, 50 years from now kids will still be reading it, that is kind of awe-inspiring.

There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made.

Like Grand Central Station, which is a marvelous building, the design and engineering of the Oculus will endure for many generations to come.

Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

I came up in 1941 and I played against men who played in the 1930s. I stayed until 1963 playing against men who will be playing in the 1970s. So I think I can feel qualified to say that baseball really was a great game, and baseball is really a great game, and baseball will always be a great game.

It's a rare film that has staying power. 'A Christmas Story' is not just a funny movie but something that connects with people.

On great fields something stays.

The challenge remains a simple one: to write news that stays news.

What I love about Christmas music is it stays around every year and comes back.

I wanted to write a book about female friendship, because it's a constant that goes right through to the end of our days. Over time, romantic love changes and often becomes something different, but friendship stays pretty much the same.

There's something cool about being a stealth classic.

In rural parts of China, it's like stepping back into the era of my grandfather or great-grandfather - not much has changed.

My favorite Hepburn moment is in 'Sabrina,' when she steps off a boat in white shorts and a plaid shirt. Chic, classic, and unfussy.

bemused smile creeping across his ancient features.

The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time:The living throne, the sapphire-blaze,Where angels tremble, while they gaze,He saw; but blasted with excess of light,Closed his eyes in endless night.

The great inviolate place had an ancient permanence which the sea cannot claim. Who can say of a particular sea that it is old? Distilled by the sun, kneaded by the moon, it is renewed in a year, in a day, or in an hour. The sea changed, the fields changed, the rivers, the villages, and the people changed, yet Egdon remained.

Life from the Center is a life of unhurried peace and power. It is serene and radiant. It takes no time, but it occupies all our time, making our life programs new and overcoming. We need not get frantic. Love is at the helm. And when our little day is done, we lie down quietly in peace, for all is well. from A TESTAMENT OF DEVOTION

Believe me, if all those endearing young charmsWhich I gaze on so fondly today,Were to change by tomorrow and fleet in my arms,Like fairy gifts fading away,Thou would'st still be ador'd as this moment thou art,Let thy loveliness fade as it will,And around the dear ruin each wish of my heartWould entwine itself verdantly still.

Go where we may, rest where we will, Eternal London haunts us still.

The corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never should be reaped, nor was ever sown. I thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting.

The world is indeed the beautiful frontispiece of eternity.

Lao-kiun, the Chinese virgin-born God, who came upon earth about six hundred years before Jesus, was without beginning. It was said that he had existed from all eternity.

Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into the nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.