Quotes About Permanence

A zebra does not change its spots.

The daguerreotype reproduces what appeared before a lens at a particular moment and never again-its appearance is simultaneous with its disappearance, its death.

To call the Form [of the Good] eternal is misleading: that something lasts forever does not render it any the better, any more than long-enduring whiteness is whiter than ephemeral whiteness.

Nothing endures, except nothing itself.

The persona of 'The Wonder Years' is something that's going to be with me forever. And I'm happy for that. It's nothing that I'd ever shy away from, and it makes me feel so good that it's something people still remember and talk about it and think of it so fondly.

When I write, I imagine scenes. I write things down. I take photographs. I do some casting. I rewrite. It's a permanent making or remaking.

That's why I named my album 'Finding Forever,' because that's what I was thinking about: What did I want to contribute to this world that would live beyond my physical existence?

Yes, my works... are enshrined in museums, but I don't care if the pieces fall apart in 20 years.

Because I've been around forever and ever, like wallpaper, people ask me for secrets... it's the same with my skin care range; that's out of necessity. As soon as I saw the first signs, I bought everything in the market.

I actually grew up in a house in which bees lived in one of the walls, and they lived there 18 years, in fact, so it wasn't a fleeting thing.

I don't want to be something that just comes and goes.

I experienced every wing beat as a terrifying drop followed by a stomach-lurching heave. I was sick over a glacier. Brisi watched with interest and screeched, "A thousand years from now, that will still be there, frozen in the ice. Unless a quig eats it.

I guess anything good you've ever been given is yours forever.

The fear that all this will end." "The fear that it won't.

Diez siglos son demasiados para un solo hombre y apenas un suspiro para la piedra.

He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.

Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know.

I had tried many times to tell her that my suicide attempt was only my way of trying to escape the permanence of the sun. With frankness, and using my limited psychological knowledge and powers of articulation, I tried to explain to her that I had attempted suicide out of a kind of curiosity, or maybe as a challenge to nature, to the cosmos itself, to the recurring light. I felt oppressed by it all.

I believe if a sentence is to retain its strength over time, it needs to be carefully made.

A lot of bands just entertain you. I'm all about entertainment - I do it every day - but there's only certain things in your life that stick around. I think P.O.D. has done that for a lot of people, and I'm happy for that.

I haven't changed at all. I'm the same as when I was 11.

There's something to be said about content living on a channel forever.

Supposedly I haven't changed.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.