Quotes About Graven

#1. Knows a higher law. One cannot turn back, and must put away graven images.

Florence Scovel Shinn

#2. I think there's almost nothing I can't excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.

Evelyn Waugh

#3. Yet the stones remain less real to those who cannot name them, or read the mute syllables graven in silica. To see a red stone is less than seeing it as jasper metamorphic quartz, cousin to the flint the Kiowa carved as arrowheads. To name is to know and remember.

Dana Gioia

#4. There are few things graven in stone, except that you have to squat or you're a pussy.

Mark Rippetoe

#5. Precept is instruction written in the sand; the tide flows over it and the record is gone; example is graven on the rock, and the lesson is not soon lost.

William Ellery Channing

#6. I'll drink some wine, and then, like a latter-day Van Winkle, I'll lay me down upon this graven stone, lay my head beneath these letters RIP, and close my eyes, according to our family's old practice of falling asleep in times of trouble, and hope to awaken, renewed and joyful, into a better time.

Salman Rushdie

#7. A man with a camera was always suspected of being a spy. Moreover, the Jews did not want to be photographed, due to a misunderstanding of the prohibition against making graven images (photography had not been invented when the Torah was written!). I was forced to use a hidden camera ...

Roman Vishniac

#8. They set down all their knowledge on bits of leather or waxed wood or tablets of stone and think that is wisdom. What good does it do a piece of stone to have knowledge? ... know it is the understanding graven in the heart that makes men wise.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#9. He has, He reminds us, "graven thee upon the palms of my hands" (1 Nephi 21:16). Considering the incomprehensible cost of the Crucifixion, Christ is not going to turn His back on us now.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#10. If Time have any wrinkle graven there; If any, be a satire to decay, And make time's spoils despised every where. Give my love fame faster than Time wastes life, So thou prevent'st his scythe and crooked knife.

William Shakespeare

#11. They may have convinced you all these years that you are nothing, unworthy of love, but I am telling you you are, and I love you." His eyes flared a deep green color and he leaned in closer to her. "You are starved for it, Lady Graven, starved, just as much as I am.

Cat Porter

#12. Now we must remark, that there are two parts in the Commandment-the first forbids the erection of a graven image, or any likeness; the second prohibits the transferring of the worship which God claims for Himself alone, to any of these phantoms or delusive shows.

John Calvin

#13. The second commandment is "Thou shall not construct any graven images." Is this really the pinnacle of what we can achieve morally? The second most important moral principle for all the generations of humanity?

Sam Harris

#14. History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.

Eldridge Cleaver

#15. I myself have seen the floating ships
And nothing will ever be the same
The shouts,
The harrowing voices within the house.
I stand apart with an army:
My mind is graven with ships.

Hilda Doolittle

#16. On the top of the tomb, seemingly driven through the solid marble - for the structure was composed of a few vast blocks of stone - was a great iron spike or stake. On going to the back I saw, graven in great Russian letters: 'The dead travel fast.

Bram Stoker

#17. Behold , I have graven you upon the palm of my hand, that is what Jesus came on earth to do: to proclaim, to give us the Good News that God loves us, that we are precious to Him.

Mother Teresa

#18. To this crib I always took my doll; human beigns must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing a faded graven image, shabby as a miniature scarecrow

Charlotte Bronte

#19. His idea was still with me, because it was not a vapor sunshine could disperse, nor a sand-traced effigy storms could wash away; it was a name graven on a tablet, fated to last as long as the marble it inscribed. The craving to know what had become of him followed me everywhere.

Charlotte Bronte

#20. I have graven it within the hills, and my vengeance upon the dust within the rock.

Edgar Allan Poe

#21. All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context of consciousness in which it arises, i.e., the totality of our nature.

Wilhelm Dilthey

#22. Why has he taken this job? ... For the sake of the dogs? But the dogs are dead; and what do dogs know of honour and dishonour anyway? For himself then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more convenient shape for processing.

J.M. Coetzee

#23. We don't grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#24. They whooped our tail last time we was here. So it's time for a little revenge, and show that Florida football is coming back.

Andre Caldwell

#25. Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

Ani DiFranco

#26. Playing Shakespeare requires technique. You don't play a Bach toccata by getting in the mood.

Kevin Kline

#27. Falling in love is a completely transcendent experience. It's like eating pizza-flavored ice cream

Mike Birbiglia

#28. Don't tell her. Buy what you need and i'll cover the cost."
"You sure?"
"Yeah." Echo wanted that car running and i wanted to see that siren smile.

Katie McGarry

#29. In our life sometimes we have to make painful choices. And it takes a bit of courage to make up our mind for it involves an element of renunciation, something hard to accept in a world steeped in pleasure and comfort.

Fr. Henry Bocala

#30. I live quietly at home among my family and friends.

Antonio Tabucchi

#31. She's cute, I thought, but you don't need to like a girl who treats you like you're ten: You've already got a mom.

John Green

#32. How can you say you're trying to spiritually evolve, without even a thought about what happens to the animals whose lives are sacrificed in the name of gluttony?

Oprah Winfrey

#33. One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.

Lawrence Welk

#34. No, you're not joining the head-injury team," she'd say.

Rainbow Rowell