Quotes about Permanence

A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.

Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilisation that made them.

his offspring shall endure forever, and his throne before Me like the sun,

A classic is like a cow: it gives fresh milk every morning. A classic is a book that rewards endlessly repeated reading. A classic is like the morning, like nature herself: ever young, ever renewing. No, not even like nature, for she, like us, is doomed to die. Only God is ever young, and only the Book he inspired never grows old.

Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.

This is a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood.”

Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.

Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

Laws change; people die; the land remains.

Your rock doth not ebb and flow, but your sea.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.