Quotes About Permanence

Long-time inhabitant of steeples, accustomed to contemplating, from his perch on a rainspout, the expanse of roofs, he knew that the souls of cities are more substantial and more lasting than those of all their inhabitants put together.

Un classico è un libro che non ha mai finito di dire quel che ha da dire.

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.

This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.

The problem is this. We worship the new instead of the eternal. And when we worship the new, we are always changing our allegiances, because there will always be something newer. Look

He could want it to be a dream forever and that wouldn't change things.

Sometimes I just don't get people. Horses make much more sense. Once two horses partner up, they stay friends forever, no matter what other horses come into the herd. I guess that's why they call it horse sense—horses just seem to have a lot more common sense than people do.

A permanent present—what a haunting phrase.

Memories fade but words hang around forever.

One reason big feelings can be so uncomfortable for small children is that they don't view those emotions as temporary.

I'm very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States comes from blending cultures. There's no way that you can close the frontiers anywhere. The borders are there to be violated permanently.

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.

Rotting together for eternity, one flesh at the last after a lifetime's mutual loathing.

The only thing that never changes is that everything changes.

Our slender life runs rippling by, and glides Into the silent hollow of the past; What is there that abides To make the next age better for the last?

Anything made out of destructible matter Infinite time would have devoured before. But if the atoms that make and replenish the world Have endured through the immense span of the past Their natures are immortal--that is clear.

You'd think a house would last forever, but the truth is a strong wind or a wrecking ball can devastate it. The family inside is not so different.

Some stains never wash out.

Because you can always count on a book to stay the same . Everything changes when you least expect it, she replies, bitter. Families split apart, and nothing's forever. In books, you always know what's coming next. There are no surprises.

love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow – beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink.

It's a world of permanence

Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow -- beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink.

Stories outlive their writers all the time.