Quotes About Permanence

What a teacher writes on the blackboard of life can never be erased.

Awareness is a flower that blooms but never dies.

His name shall endure for ever.

You can check out anytime you like,But you can never leave.

The oaks and the pines, and their brethren of the wood, have seen so many suns rise and set, so many seasons come and go, and so many generations pass into silence, that we may well wonder what "the story of the trees" would be to us if they had tongues to tell it, or we ears fine enough to understand.

A crown of glory that fadeth not away.

Good tattoos aren't cheap and cheap tattoos aren't good.

Give a man a fire and keep him warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he will be warm for rest of his life.

But books, like people, die. They die in fires or floods or in the mouths of worms or at the whims of tyrants. If they are not safeguarded, they go out of the world. And when a book goes out of the world, the memory dies a second death.

It is the rarest thing...that gets preserved, that does not get erased, broken down, transformed.

unchanging, everlasting, no months, no years, every hour like spring on the clearest, most gold-green morning, the dew like ·[diamonds?]·, the towers like honeycombs, and the western zephyr was the only breeze…

The things that look fixed in the world, child - mountains, wealth, empires - their permanence is only an illusion. We believe they will last, but that is only because of the brevity of our own lives.

a bondade, mais do que qualquer outra coisa, é o que perdura.

The things that look fixed in this world, child--mountains, wealth, empires--their permanence is only an illusion. We believe they will last, but that is only because of the brevity of our own lives. From the perspective of God, cities like this come and go like anthills.

books, like people, die. They die in fires or floods or in the mouths of worms or at the whims of tyrants. If they are not safeguarded, they go out of the world. And when a book goes out of the world, the memory dies a second death.

I've always liked the idea of making things that last forever, not necessarily in the sense of being unbreakable, but more psychologically permanent. Most people throw stuff away not because it's broken but because their relationship with that object is broken.

Being in the public eye, with the Internet - it's scary. You can put out too much, and it becomes a part of the pie chart of who you are. Things stick. And they never go away.

That's sort of the amazing thing about writing something down and then having it printed and published - it's frozen. It's there. It's set. It's in ink. It's done. Nothing changes it.

Defensive awards and accolades aside, to have your jersey retired puts you in a position where you'll be known forever.

I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.

I know from experience, once something is said on camera, true or false, it follows you forever.

What's the difference between herpes and love? Herpes is forever.

Art is forever.

Film is forever.