Quotes About Permanence

Time does not pass, it merely changes.

I don't make summer jams or albums based on time or seasons; my goal is to make quality music, timeless music. I'm not looking at the calendar.

Drop a grain of California gold into the ground, and there it will lie unchanged until the end of time; . . . drop a grain of our blessed gold [wheat] into the ground and lo! a mystery.

I want it to be able to hold up in 30 years' time. So, I'm really thinking about everything.

Change can only exist in time. Without time there is no change. Change can only exist with a background of that which is changeless, otherwise it has no definition.

Time doesn't seem to pass here: it just is.

Forever is a very long time Peter

Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour," she'd ask us, "when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever?

When you build a bridge, you build something for all time.

Like a flame is real enough, isn't it, while it's burning?-even if there's a time it goes out?

If I had time, I would become timeless.

Freedom is something that should not be washed away in time leaving the essence alone in time.

Men were foolish and were made only so that they should die, while mountains and rivers went on for ever and did not notice the passing of time.

I can't destroy things so beautiful.""Time will destroy them if you don't. Time destroys everything. But if you destroy them, it will mean something.

As a filmmaker, you aspire to want to make movies that can hopefully stand the test of time, but you never know when that will happen or if that will happen.

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

But then deep down, perhaps she had always been those things. People did not really change, did they?

I shall always love you, he had said, and Elizabeth had believed him. She laughed harshly now . . . Forever did not last very long, she reflected.

What unnatural words. Always and forever! Those aren't human words, Jim. Not even stones are always and forever.

What unnatural words: always and forever! Not even stones are always and forever.

It wasn't about the bird, it was something about the way stone stays mute and put, whatever goes flashing by.

and how could anyone believe that anything in this world is only what it appears to be— that anything is ever final— that anything, in spite of its absence, ever dies a perfect death?

No matter what the world claims, its wisdom always growing, so it's said, some things don't alter with time: the first kiss is a good example, and the flighty sweetness of rhyme.

Is there such a feeling as love at first sight? And if there be, in what does its nature differ from love founded in long observation and slow growth? Perhaps its effects are not so permanent; but they are, while they last, as violent and intense.