Quotes About Permanence

I guess I just don't have a talent for it, some women just aren't the marrying kind - or anyway, not the permanent marrying kind, and I'm one of them.

Scientific fashions last longer than women's fashions but not as long as men's

Women's styles may change but their designs remain the same.

Knowing what's ETERNAL will sustain you through the EPHEMERAL.

Movie stars and singers never fully pass away because their images are replayed on film and recordings, over and over.

I am dying, but the state remains.

I had an instinct to take my husband's name when I got married. It felt like a romantic statement of pride, love, and permanence and of doing what's always been done in my family.

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.

The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think that's going to make me last longer than me.

One always hopes that you're going to have influence and staying power, but you never know.

Nothing always stays the same. You don't stay happy forever. You don't stay sad forever.

Every moment is, in some ways, eternal. Once you put something into the world, it stays there.

I try to make pieces that are durable. One of the reasons that I work in steel is durability.

If you're falling in love with several people, it's really important to not just continue coasting in the relationships and start taking big steps towards permanence, especially before you're going to meet someone's family.

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.

I am the family face flesh perishes, I live on.

The fundamental error of their matrimonial union that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

Matter is changing and transient, but substance or spirit is unchanging and eternal.

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.

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?

Bhima smiles. "Beti, the past is always present," she says. "No such thing as bringing it up. The past is like the skin on your hand—it was there yesterday and it is here today. It never goes anywhere. Maybe when you're older you'll understand this better.

My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the needs of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever.