Quotes about Inscription
Every fact in this world, the God of the Bible claims, has His stamp indelibly engraved upon it.
- Cornelius Van Til
We pour water upon the child and name it. Not to fix it in our hearts but in our clutches. The daughters of men sit in half darkened closets inscribing messages upon their arms with razorblades and sleep is no part of their life.
- Cormac McCarthy
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
- Samuel Johnson
Hope is the Word which God has written on the brow of every man.
- Victor Hugo
I bent down to read the inscription: GSS—13th Floor—Vault #42—8675309.
- Ernest Cline
Look, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; your walls are continually before Me. Isaiah 49:16
- Beth Moore
The cemetery has ... an inscription: 'Though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death I will Fear No Evil, For Thou Art With Me.' Yes, it does feel deceptively safer with two; but Thou is a slippery character. Every Thou I've known has had a way of going missing.
- Margaret Atwood
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
- Samuel Johnson
Happiness then is the best, noblest, and most pleasant thing in the world, and these attributes are not severed as in the inscription at Delos- Most noble is that which is justest, and best is health; But pleasantest is it to win what we love.
- Aristotle
Jacob Wainwright was asked to carve an inscription on the large Mvula tree which stands by the place where the body rested, stating the name of Dr. Livingstone and the date of his death, and, before leaving, the men gave strict injunctions to Chitambo to keep the grass cleared away, so as to save it from the bush-fires which annually sweep over the country and destroy so many trees.
- David Livingstone