Inscribing Quotes

#1. They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'

Plato

#2. I shall accord to myself the honor of inscribing myself as an applicant for the American citizenship which according to law I can obtain only after five years residence in this country. And I shall yield to no one of my future countrymen in patriotism. I consider America now my real home.

Wilhelm Steinitz

#3. The Sirens flicked their wings at the wall, inscribing it with their own blue ink: Even in penance is beauty; blessed are all the ocean's drowned!

Catherynne M Valente

#4. education, then, is a constellation of practices, rituals, and routines that inculcates a particular vision of the good life by inscribing or infusing that vision into the heart (the gut) by means of material, embodied practices.

James K.A. Smith

#5. The Grand Canyon is carven deep by the master hand; it is the gulf of silence, widened in the desert; it is all time inscribing the naked rock; it is the book of earth.

Donald C. Peattie

#6. The age of recording is necessarily an age of nostalgia
when was the past so hauntingly accessible?
but its bitterest insight is the incapacity of even the most perfectly captured sound to restore the moment of its first inscribing. That world is no longer there.

Geoffrey O'Brien

#7. Living with love for all humankind and worshiping nature's immense beauty cures heartache and restores bliss. Respecting the splendor of nature awakens us to the beauty inscribing our own humanity.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#8. When you make a promise, you're not giving your word in erasable pencil, you're inscribing your commitment in indelible ink.

Frank Sonnenberg

#9. There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.

Joseph Addison

#10. God stands in no need of our strength or wisdom, but of our ignorance, of our weakness; let us but give these to Him, and He can make use of us in winning souls.

Dwight L. Moody

#11. President Obama, by the way, has set a Guinness World Record as the fastest person to get a million Twitter followers. Obama now has as many followers as the Republicans have presidential candidates.

Conan O'Brien

#12. I'm happy going home early and working out and just being a mother and being a wife.

Kim Alexis

#13. You drove a dagger through my back, Elena. It hurt.

Rebecca

#14. The two of us were bound together by the thread of grief, but it wasn't just our mutual losses that united us. We'd survived them, found each other, and discovered that sometimes, from darkness can come light.

Brenda Rothert

#15. They had their beliefs, and those beliefs were stronger than any belief they had in him.

David Levithan

#16. So many lives are in bitterness today not just because of how their pasts were abused, but how they think they were innocent.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#17. Some man would come to her room. Maybe she would hesitate, and he'd grab her, pin her to the mattress, force her to cooperate.

Cherise Sinclair

#18. Well, excuse me for trying to make a joke," Robbie retorted. "You'll never give up

V.K. Sykes

#19. All I could think about was, 'I just wanna blow him away. I wanna make him proud, because I really wanna sign with Timbaland and spend the rest of my career making music with Tim.'

Brandy Norwood

#20. The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez