Quotes About Permanence

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

I libri si dividono in due categorie: i libri per adesso e i libri per sempre.

Not longer," I said. "Just, like I've always been here.

You keep out of my bed," said Danny, for he knew that Joe Portagee had come to stay. The way he sat in a chair and crossed his knees had an appearance of permanence.

Things do not change with a change of scene.

I printed it once more on my eyes, south, west, and north, and then we hurried away from the permanent and changeless past where my mother is always shooting a wildcat and my father is always burning his name with his love.

No, it ain't, Ma smiled. It ain't, Pa. An' that's one more thing a woman knows. I noticed that. Man, he lives in jerks -- baby born an' a man dies, an' that's a jerk -- gets a farm an' loses his farm, an' that's a jerk. Woman, it's all one flow, like a stream, little eddies, little waterfalls, but the river, it goes right on. Woman looks at it like that. We ain't gonna die out. People is goin' on -- changin' a little, maybe, but goin' right on.

Thank you for wanting to honor me with the truth, my son. It's not clever but it's more permanent.

But cities aren't like people; they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver and out to sea.

They felt the poorhouse would always be there, exempt from time. That some residents died, and others came, did not occur to them; a few believed that the name of the prefect was still Mendelssohn. In a sense the poorhouse would indeed outlast their homes. The old continue to be old-fashioned, though their youths were modern. We grow backward, aging into our father's opinion and even into those of our grandfathers.

Rabbit realised the world was not solid and benign, it was a shabby set of temporary arrangements rigged up for the time being, all for the sake of money. You just passed through, and they milked you for what you were worth, mostly when you were young and gullible.

there inside the person is what will pass away and become one with what is invisible in everything...

Could circumstances possibly change who I forever am in You?

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

Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.

My dear girl. I am his family. I am permanent. You are only temporary.

I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.

Beauty and love are all my dream; They change not with the changing day; Love stays forever like a stream That flows but never flows away.

Having a fantasy come true doesn't always mean it will be permanent.

A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.

"Beauty fades," my father would tell me, "but dumb? Dumb is forever."

If life on earth is temporary , What makes you think that your problems are permanent ?

What we do in life echoes in eternity.

The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next