Quotes About Permanence

ISABEL: Entonces ¿de verdad crees que el arte vale más que la vida? MAURICIO: Siempre. Mira esa jacarandá del jardín: hoy vale porque da flor y sombra, pero mañana, cuando se muera como mueren los árboles, en silencio y de pie, nadie volverá a acordarse de él. En cambio si lo hubiera pintado un gran artista, viviría eternamente.

Something with inner beauty will live forever, like the scent of a rose.

Washington and Lincoln mean as much to us as any two men could mean to a civilization, a people, and age, but I told Mr. Coolidge when he dedicated this monument that this rock is being carved with a monument that will outlive our government.

I never considered the move to Washington to be a permanent move.

Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.

Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.

John Mayer will be around forever, like the Eagles and Eric Clapton.

It doesn't matter how fashion or politics changes; you'll never change a classic song.

The things we make have one supreme quality - they live longer than us. We perish, they survive; we have one life, they have many lives, and in each life they can mean different things. Which means that, while we all have one biography, they have many.

You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.

If your subjects are eternal... they'll survive.

History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time.

For me, it's not about quick grabs and quick sales; it's about having a sound that will last and sustain.

When you go to Mars, you need to have made the decision that you're there permanently. The more people we have there, the more it can become a sustaining environment. Except for very rare exceptions, the people who go to Mars shouldn't be coming back. Once you get on the surface, you're there.

Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

I don't trust the everyday: it is a mask, a sham. It gives the illusion of permanence, of an unshatterable calm, a placid surface; and yet underneath the pot is slowly coming to a boil.

The destructive action of time only allows what is superior to time to survive.

Diamonds are forever, and so are the Flairs.

Nec vta nec fortna hominibus perpes est. (Publilius

Give your family greater depth, greater permanence, greater individuality, and give your kids a bigger identity and a bigger sense of inclusion and belonging. This is how you give them real ownership and equity in their own family!

Over time, this growing tendency of like marrying like will only reinforce clustering and geographic sorting along class lines, giving the emerging map of social, economic, and cultural segregation even greater permanence.

There has been a revolution in our understanding over the last forty years, and the gains in knowledge are permanent. But we will never know everything, and that is as it should be. From the obscuring mist of the past, science has ensured that some of the mountains have emerged into clear view, but as soon as that happens the misty shadows of further peaks are glimpsed in the distance, rank upon rank: so many other heights to climb, so many mysteries to investigate.

It was always August.