Top 22 Parchments Quotes
#1. ADVERSARIA (ADVERSA'RIA) n.s.[Lat. A book, as it should seem, in which Debtor and Creditor were set in opposition.]A common-place; a book to note in. These parchments are supposed to have been St. Paul's adversaria.Bull'sSermons.
Samuel Johnson
#2. Women are marvellous at plodding through
the centuries. They are exact, accurate and tireless. If you ever wish to discover some minute fact, buried away at the bottom of a bin of forgotten parchments, find a girl with horn-rimmed spectacles and straight hair and ask her to do it for you.
H.V. Morton
#3. Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had prospered, and in the air that had been the purest and brightest in the house an unbearable smell of rotten memories floated.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#4. Papers there were in the chest, and parchments, and stiff untanned skins, written in English and Latin and the old Cumric tongue: Morgan was born, Morgan was married, Morgan became a knight, Morgan was hanged. Here lay the history of the house, shameful and glorious.
John Steinbeck
#5. Our liberties do not come from charters; for these are only the declaration of pre-existing rights. They do not depend on parchments or seals; but come from the King of Kings and the Lord of all the earth.
John Dickinson
#6. The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the Hand of Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.
Alexander Hamilton
#7. Reason ought not, like vanity, to adorn herself with ancient parchments, and the display of a genealogical tree; more dignified in her proceedings, and proud of her immortal nature, she ought to derive everything from herself.
Suzanne Curchod
#8. And what I like best in you is this particular enthusiasm, which is not at all practical or sensible, which is downright Quixotic. You are not altogether what you seem, and you have your reservations. Living among the wolves, you have not become one.
Willa Cather
#9. Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder - and turn quickly to my typewriter.
Sydney J. Harris
#10. The eye is diverted from the real business, it is caught by the spectacular action that means nothing
nothing at all.
Agatha Christie
#11. We're democratizing the tools of creativity.
Ray Kurzweil
#12. When I arrived, I didn't understand London customers perfectly, but we've developed the right style with the right price, and step by step, I'm in harmony with London.
Alain Ducasse
#13. Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW ... always.
Mark Twain
#14. I believe that our Great Maker is preparing the world, in His own good time, to become one nation, speaking one language, and when armies and navies will be no longer required.
Ulysses S. Grant
#15. It suddenly struck me that Dawsey is a lonesome person. I think it may be that he has always been lonely, but he didn't mind before, and now he minds.
Annie Barrows
#16. That terrible feeling that you're not good enough to be loved by the people you love most, and eventually by anyone else.
Danielle Steel
#17. Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.
Bono
#18. Risking one's life can be strangely liberating. That's what the sea counsels me.
Diane Wilson
#19. What does God require of us? Our part is to believe. Our work is to trust the Lord. His requirement is that we let go and let God.
Joyce Meyer
#20. Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings ... Leave and don't look away from the sun as you go, in whose light you're sometimes crescent, sometimes full.
Rumi
#21. You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything but Christ.
Charles Spurgeon
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