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Quotes About Permanence

Keep a notebook. Travel with it, eat with it, sleep with it. Slap into it every stray thought that flutters up in your brain. Cheap paper is less perishable than gray matter, and lead pencil markings endure longer than memory.
~ Jack London
And never forget, Michael said, time travelers never die. No matter what you saw up ahead, about me, I'll always be here.
~ Jack McDevitt
fame is everlasting!
~ Jack Weatherford
Wars come and go; politics endure.
~ Jacqueline Carey
But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
The empty swing set reminds us of this-- that bad won't be bad forever, and what is good can sometimes last a long, long time.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
The facets that resonate with time, even if it's hundreds of years old, will resonate with your work as well. It's like a law of the universe.
~ James Altucher
You will live with this forever, and it will spell out the language of your life.
~ James Baldwin
Nothing ever goes away
~ James Baldwin
reminding himself to remember forever that the pen's a long arm from the grave.
~ James Clavell
I didn't care who we were. I required no consummation. I knew that whoever we were and whatever we had would never stop.
~ James Ellroy
I don't believe in changing the unchangeable.
~ Daniel Barenboim
The sand in the hour glass isn't meant to stick together. It will flow exactly same today, how it did ten years back. That's how much reliable that stuff is. The stuff that can be consistent.
~ Jasleen Kaur Gumber
There is nothing hidden in the hidden time. Know that this, the hidden time, is your everlasting, and live.
~ Compton Gage
One generation passes away, and another generation cometh forth: but the earth abides for ever.
~ Compton Gage
In the history of the earth, the sun remains still.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The only permanence is change
~ Levon Peter Poe
Everything shall pass way, only books will remain.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
A sage has one advantage he is immortal. If this is not his century many others will be.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Women can do nothing that has permanence.
~ Selma Lagerlöf
I grew up as a sports fan, and I know that a hall of fame is very different than an award for being the best of the year. It's a nod to the longevity of our accomplishment.
~ Chuck D
A zebra does not change its spots.
~ Al Gore
A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
~ Ivy Compton-Burnett
When you learn a Bruce Springsteen song, it's like learning to ride a bike. You don't forget it.
~ Clarence Clemons