Top 100 Engraved Quotes
#1. Sometimes people back themselves into corners where they think they have to make kind of an engraved-in-stone decision.
Emily Yoffe
#2. I've learned that when someone does something very kind and refuses payment, giving them an engraved Swiss Army knife is never refused!
Christine Lavin
#3. With my pen I have engraved warrants of citizenship in the most remote corners, for truly the world has been my home.
James A. Michener
#4. My face on every coin engraved, the anarchists are all enslaved. My flag is forever waved, by the grateful people I have saved.
Don McLean
#5. Swing is so much more than a dance, it's a way of life. The music gets stuck in your mind and the dance is in your heart and the whole scene is engraved on your soul. You can fly.
Nicholas Hope
#7. Human knowledge consists not only of libraries of parchment and ink - it is also comprised of the volumes of knowledge that are written on the human heart, chiselled on the human soul, and engraved on the human psyche.
Michael Jackson
#9. My wife is really sentimental. One Valentine's Day I gave her a ring and to this day she has never forgotten those three little words that were engraved inside Made in Taiwan!
Leopold Fechtner
#10. The first impression is readily received. We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to efface them.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#11. To be Christians under the law of grace does not mean to wander unbridled outside the law, but to be engrafted in Christ, by whose grace we are free from the curse of the law, and by whose Spirit we have the law engraved upon our hearts.
John Calvin
#13. Her bulging twins are packed tightly into a breastplate engraved with a silver emblem.
Fujino Omori
#14. Terry Eagleson says his family's aim was to have the words "We Were No Trouble" engraved on their gravestones.
Maureen Corrigan
#15. Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within, which men can decipher in a thousand different ways without ever finding the right answer or the best one ...
Iannis Xenakis
#16. Within the shadows of honor, courage often walks in silence.
-Engraved on the monument Clay built
Lorraine Heath
#17. What we know about Cleopatra's looks is based purely on her coin portraits. Engraving was imperfect, and that when you are a ruler and you ask for a coin to be engraved with your likeness on it, you are probably trying to project a certain air of authority.
Stacy Schiff
#18. At stake are the lives of many children who will be discriminated against in advance, and deprived of their human development given by a father and a mother and willed by God. At stake is the total rejection of God's law engraved in our hearts.
Pope Francis
#19. The poets and philosophers I once loved had it wrong. Death does not come to us all, nor does the passage of time dim our memories and reduce our bodies to dust. Because while I was considered dead, and a headstone had been engraved with my name, in truth my life was just beginning.
Kevin Williamson
#20. I thought of Pericles' speech to the families of the Athenian war dead, in which he said, What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
Eric Greitens
#21. He put his wrists out in front, and as he spoke the words engraved on them, he turned his arms around slowly. "Dum spiramus tuebimur, which in English reads: while we breath, we shall defend," he told her.
Madison Thorne Grey
#22. Life had engraved such beauty in those lines of age and wisdom ...
Rosslyn Elliott
#23. I run my fingers along its rough edges a moment, remembering the day Darian and I borrowed his dad's carving knife and engraved our initials in place.
Shannon Duffy
#24. If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.
C. JoyBell C.
#25. You look at the history of any sentient species and what do you find but tableaux of violence and slaughter. It's finger-painted on the ceilings of caves and engraved into the walls of temples.
James Luceno
#26. Behind them the solemn-faced warriors stood, engraved into the vast double doors of the mansion. In front of them, the fountain lay broken into three large chunks and a mass of smaller rocks, scattered around.
A.O. Peart
#27. You, Christopher, with your centuries of Anglo-Saxon freedom behind you, with your Magna Carta engraved upon your heart, cannot understand that we poor barbarians need the stiffness of a uniform to keep us standing upright.
Christopher Isherwood
#28. Since we possess its hymn, engraved on our hearts in its entirety, there is no need of any woman to repeat the opening lines, potent with the admiration which her beauty inspires, for us to remember all that follows.
Marcel Proust
#29. I am a collector of many things, but I particularly love the sterling silver mint julep cups, each engraved with the titles of the Broadway shows in which I appeared.
Bryan Batt
#30. I think the silhouette of the kimono costume will become engraved in people's minds. I do think there'll be lots of red accents in the near future. For me personally, I can't see myself flaunting around in a geisha uniform but it'll make me smile when I see what others do with it.
Colleen Atwood
#31. Max had once read in one of his father's books that some childhood images become engraved in the mind like photographs, like scenes you can return to again and again and will always remember, no matter how much time goes by.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#32. When you feel that a relationship is not same as it was and it is lacking the old charm, love, and magic - give it some space.
We often complicate things by wondering how to fix it. At times, just some space and unsaid love can heal even those wounds that are deeply engraved.
Nikita Dudani
#33. I want you to steal something."
I smiled. "Do you want the king's seal? I can get it for you."
"If I were you," said the magus, "I'd stop bragging about that." His voice grated.
My smile grew. The gold ring with the engraved ruby had been in his safekeeping when I had stolen it away.
Megan Whalen Turner
#34. Nothing chases away the sand or the memories engraved on the back of my eyelids. They play on a continuous loop, with smells and sound and sorrow.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#35. I want to fuck you right here, teacup." "The engraved invitation's in the mail." I raised my leg over his waist and he tucked his hand behind my knee. "It says, 'Your dick is cordially invited to come inside.'" He
C.D. Reiss
#36. Misery is a scar on the soul, that if it begins in childhood, it lasts the whole lifetime. I understand that no two scars are alike, but I also ask myself; even if these scars are not alike, aren't these things engraved on our souls signed by which we know each other?Aren't we also alike?
Bahaa Taher
#37. It is noteworthy, the researcher further argued, that the inscription on the sword was engraved in the Romanian language, and, consequently, we see that Latin was actually Romanian, and not the invented language that for many centuries has passed for ancient Latin.
Vladimir Lorchenkov
#38. Call to mind the sentiments which nature has engraved on the heart of every citizen, and which take a new force when they are solemnly recognised by all:-For a nation to love liberty, it is sufficient that she knows it; and to be free, it is sufficient that she wills it.
Thomas Paine
#39. I have to believe him. How, I don't know. But I can't go out like this. I can't live out the rest of my life engraved with an identity that does not define me. I am not a monster.
Allison Rose
#40. When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
Pope John Paul II
#41. Ah, this is fine," he cried triumphantly, holding up a small medallion on a chain. He dusted it off, and engraved on one side were the words "WHY NOT?" "That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.
Norton Juster
#42. Every fact in this world, the God of the Bible claims, has His stamp indelibly engraved upon it.
Cornelius Van Til
#43. We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#44. I knew my boyfriend was going to ask me to marry him. And I was sure the ring was going to be exceptional, and I bought him a Rolex Explorer. And I engraved 'yes' on it. And when he proposed, I gave him the watch.
Rena Sofer
#45. There was a brass plate mounted on the door at eye level, so old that the lettering that had once been engraved there had been reduced to a spidery, unreadable code, the name of some long dead function or functionary, polished into oblivion.
William Gibson
#46. Those memories that are engraved within me become teaching tools, ways of connecting with others, of creating an empathic bridge, of reaching out a hand and saying, I've been there, too.
Dani Shapiro
#47. Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak; the wound would enlarge with the tree, and posterity read in it full grown characters.
Thomas Paine
#48. Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.
Horace
#49. The principles of Christianity, deeply engraved on the heart, would be infinitely more powerfulthan the false honor of the monarchies ...
William J. Federer
#50. I honestly believe that everything I know about the writing of non-fiction (or writing) could be engraved on the head of a pin with a garden hoe ...
M.F.K. Fisher
#51. If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds.
Garet Garrett
#52. He drew out of his pocket an old-fashioned flat silver watch, on the back of which was engraved a globe; the chain was of steel.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#53. What the Vatican did will be indelibly and eternally engraved in our hearts. Priests and even high prelates did things that will forever be an honor to Catholicism.
Israel Zolli
#54. That was the plan?
part of it, you don't wan tot know the rest. i believe the word 'these dog colllars would make excellent restraints' were involved.
it was a brilliant idea. and we only got really cute well-made collars. this is my favorite. we had the tag engraved to say BUBBA.
Michele Jaffe
#55. We were born with four words engraved on our bodies and in our hearts: Love me, hold me.
David Richo
#56. If our inconceivably ancient universe even had any beginning, the conditions determining that beginning must even now be engraved in the atomic weights.
Theodore William Richards
#57. But though that love was engraved on her heart, she did not have the words to explain its nature.
Charlie Lovett
#58. The elf nodded. From her saddlebow, she took a lute, a marvelous instrument of light, tastefully inlaid wood with a slender, engraved neck. Without a word, she handed the lute to Dandilion. The poet accepted the instrument and smiled. Also without a word, but his eyes said a great deal. "Farewell,
Andrzej Sapkowski
#59. The human heart beats approximately 4,000 times per hour and each pulse, each throb, each palpitation is a trophy engraved with the words 'you are still alive.' You are still alive. Act like it.
Rudy Francisco
#60. More and more men are raising children or want to be close to their kids. They don't want to just lead work-obsessed lives and end up 50 years later with an engraved watch.
Gloria Steinem
#61. Quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts.
Winston Churchill
#62. She and her mother both gave that odd impression of having been outlined somehow, drawn with such vivid strokes and delicate detail that they stood out from their background as though they'd been engraved on it.
Diana Gabaldon
#63. My mother taught me that family comes first. It is engraved on my heart.
Cung Le
#64. The memory of past favors is like a rainbow, bright, vivid, and beautiful; but it soon fades away. The in memory of injuries is engraved on the heart, and remains forever.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
#65. I have prayed with the families and wept at the funerals of Hoosiers who did not shrink from 9-11 but grew into heroes whose names will forever be engraved in the heart of a grateful nation.
Mike Pence
#66. She knew without a doubt what he had said was true. They were created for each other. Destined for this time of reconciliation. For Keirah, it was a moment, no, it was the moment of a lifetime, and it would forever be engraved on her heart and etched in her soul to be remembered long after forever.
Madison Thorne Grey
#67. Should we do this now?"
Pam gave an almost inaudible snort. She was smiling in the glow of the streetlight, suddenly exhilarated. "You waiting for an engraved invite?"
Lord save me from sarcastic vampires.
Charlaine Harris
#68. The visible structure of Jane Austen's stories may be flimsy enough; but their foundations drive deep down into the basic principles of human conduct. On her bit of ivory she has engraved a criticism of life as serious and as considers as Hardy's.
David Cecil
#69. Loving someone means that you will inevitable grieve for them; love is an engraved invitation for grief.
Sunshine O'Donnell
#70. Even now, over a half-century later, the engraved words stirred emotions in him he would rather not confront.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#71. Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to that idea.
Scott Reed
#72. When I die India will be found engraved on my heart.
Queen Mary
#73. Habits are actions that have been repeated enough to get engraved in your mind as well.
Ryan Williams
#74. Melted down, silver is worth a little more than four dollars an ounce. But carved, inlaid, and engraved, and identified with a particular year, it becomes the direct reflection, often the literal record, of human history, our movement through time.
Peter Landesman
#75. You may be wonderful with words, but your best writing comprises of the words that had been said to you by somebody else and had engraved on your memory forever...
Gaurav Sharma
#76. Words are more forgettable, but the emotional effects they have on the person hearing them stay engraved in his or her memory.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#77. It's about being ourselves, our real best selves, the women God made us to be. It's about reading the writing on our feminine souls - writing engraved there from the moment God formed us in our mothers' wombs - then living what that writing proclaims.
Emily Stimpson
#78. Every word you have ever uttered, is engraved upon my heart.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#79. Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back.
Edgar Lee Masters
#80. Leaning forward he placed his lips over hers. She told herself he was breathing life into her, but the truth was he'd always been sucking it out, slowly, one breath at a time. - From ENGRAVED
Amber Garza
#81. When I was fifteen, I got a Tiffany's necklace from the producers of 'Game of Thrones' with my character's name Sansa engraved on it.
Sophie Turner
#82. I hate these affairs", he'd told her once, tearing up an engraved invitation to an exclusive charity ball. "They're the worst kind of discrimination. An invitation doesn't really mean that you're invited; it means that a whole lot of people aren't
Melinda Cross
#83. Ethiopia is engraved on my heart. I first went in 1973 because I heard of a terrible famine. They were denying it even as we got the film out. The coverage destroyed the emperor's credibility.
Jonathan Dimbleby
#84. When they bury me in a church and chuck earth on my grave, I'd like the words 'Well, at least he tried' engraved on my tombstone.
Steven Morrissey
#85. I shall be found with 'Indians' engraved on my brain when I am dead. A fire has been kindled within me, which will never go out.
Helen Hunt Jackson
#86. I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his days of glory shrunk to a little gold cup on his mantel with a date engraved on it like the date on a tombstone.
Sylvia Plath
#87. You want revelations engraved in gold and angels trumpeting down from heaven? But what if this is it instead? Me, telling you I love you, right here in the snow
T. Fabris
#88. Even in my day there were five plaques at the top of the tomb, engraved with a written record of what each of these three groups had done, which prove, when the figures are added up, that the prostitutes made the greatest contribution.
Anonymous
#90. Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#91. I want this epitaph engraved on my tombstone: "See you soon
Edouard Leve
#93. This, then, is the freedom for which Christ has set us free: to have the law of Christ engraved on our hearts. His way is the perfect law, which is the law of liberty (James 1:25).
R. R. Reno
#94. I look into your eyes to find the truth. In other dimensions, I found a portal which connects life, logic and nature. It feels the body with knowledge, inspiration, love, and an engraved library of wisdom.
Katia M. S.
Katia M. S.
#95. And once we die, what we leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. [Pericles]
Michelle Moran
#96. There was a sort of beauty that only comes with age. A whole life engraved into facial wrinkles.
Henning Mankell
#97. People's talk and the stories they tell have been engraved on my heart, and some of them have flown into my pen.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
#98. In this rotten world, Zoltan Chivay, goodness, honesty and integrity become deeply engraved in the memory.' 'That
Andrzej Sapkowski
#99. Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass; give me plain glass.
John Fowles
#100. I've got quite a memory. Engraved in my mind, things are. I can't forget anything ... It's not a sign of intelligence ... Nothing to boast about, memory ... that's just how it is ...
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
