Quotes About Permanence

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

It is a foolish man who believes that the status quo can be maintained indefinitely.

Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream But of a shadow, summed with all his substance.

Without continuity, men would become like flies in summer.

I didn't become CM on 07-10-2001. I have always been CM, I am CM today and shall be CM forever. For me CM means not Chief Minister but Common Man.

The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.

We go on dating from Cold Fridays and Great Snows; but a little colder Friday, or greater snow would put a period to man's existence on the globe.

France may one day exist no more, but the Dordogne will live on just as dreams live on and nourish the souls of men.

Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.

This oration will be read five hundred years hence with as much rapture as it was heard. It ought to be read at the end of every century, and indeed at the end of every year, forever and ever.

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?

Looks fade,' Mom would go on. 'But intelligence lasts forever.

When you write a book, you are asking someone to make an investment in their time and money. A column can come and go as the weeks pass, but a book needs to be timeless.

The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.

Culture changes, fashions change, customs change. Great music is immortal.

I probably have the crappiest tattoo -- not only in country music -- but maybe the world.

I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.

I don't how I can describe the quality that is only found in art (be it music, literature, painting, or whatever), this quality, it's just there, and it endures.

Music is a permanent art, it will always go through phases where you like it and are in tune with it, but saying that music "got bad" is infantile. The same is true with your life.

I do NOT accept the ephemeral nature of this moment. I'm going to extend it FOREVER! Or at least I'm going to try.

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Good things, by their nature, are fleeting. It's those that bring us grief that linger.

Marriage is by nature a covenant, Not just a private contract one may cancel at will.