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Quotes About Permanence

May it live and last for more than one century.
~ Gaius Valerius Catullus
When I sleepwalk into your room, and pick you up, and hold you up in the moonlight, you cling to me hard, as if clinging could save us. I think you think I will never die, I think I exude to you the permanence of smoke or stars, even as my broken arms heal themselves around you.
~ Galway Kinnell
Cooper looked at the house and tried to fix it in his mind like a painting that would never leave him. But its beauty was so think and so real that it could never be just a painting
~ Gary D. Schmidt
life goes on ad nauseam.
~ Gary R. Renard
The person who first said that the more things change the more they stay the same hit the universal nail right on the holographic head.
~ Gary R. Renard
Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.
~ Gary Wright
Permanence: Just because they die, she said, doesn't mean they go away.
~ Brian Andreas
Amber starts off as sap from a tree," Joseph said in the dark. "And sometimes insects get caught in it, and over millions of years the amber turns into a gemstone, but it traps the insect inside." "Oh." "A photograph is sort of like that, don't you think?
~ Brian Selznick
Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all This is a miracle and that no more.
~ Brigham Young
Love is not wanting the thing you love to ever end.
~ Brock Clarke
Love is not wanting the thing you love to ever end. I was in love with A Fan's Notes, just like my dad was. And I was in love with my dad, just like I was in love with A Fan's Notes. I wanted both of them to last forever.
~ Brock Clarke
This is how I think of Mount Rainier, not as an icon of permanence but as a source of relentless change, a mountain forever falling.
~ Bruce Barcott
Remember, people, a spike is a passing thing, but a lawsuit you always have with you. Over.
~ Bruce Sterling
Whatever is done for man will pass, yet all that is done for God will last.
~ Bryan Chapell
Captains may come and captains may go, but the administration goes on forever.
~ bujold lois mcmaster iii
Laws die, but Books never.
~ Bulwer-Lytton Richelieu
immortality is but ubiquity in time); that
~ Herman Melville
for immortality is but ubiquity in time);
~ Herman Melville
I joy that Death is this Democrat; and hopeless of all other real and permanent democracies, still hug the thought, that though in life some heads are crowned with gold, and some bound round with thorns, yet chisel them how they will, head-stones are all alike.
~ Herman Melville
The purpose is to prevent the traces of human events from being erased by time...
~ Herodotus
Why not make it for always?
~ Ian Fleming
The future kept arriving. Our bright new toys began to rust before we could get them home, and life went on much as before.
~ Ian Mcewan
I cannot understand why any young man - or young woman, for that matter - would wish to undergo the painful process of disfiguring the skin with various multicolored representations of people, animals, and various symbols.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
I don't think you change from the time you're 16 until you die. Maybe your body changes, and you have different experiences, but I think you become a fully conscious soul with full abilities. Souls are eternal, and if you keep your marbles until you croak in your 90s or your 100s, you're the same.
~ Whit Stillman