Graven Quotes
13 quotes by 13 authors
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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
— Eldridge Cleaver
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See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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He who prohibited the making of a graven image would never himself have made an image in the likeness of holy things [i.e., by creating…
— Clement of Alexandria
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For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in…
— Pericles
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I am graven on the palms of His hands. I am never out of His mind. All my knowledge of Him depends on His sustained…
— J I Packer
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There are few things graven in stone, except that you have to squat or you're a pussy.
— Mark Rippetoe
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We are most blessed when we see ourselves as we are seen by [the Savior] and know ourselves as we are known by Him. In…
— Truman G. Madsen
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I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do. You are just…
— Walter Lippmann
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When we are young we do not look into mirrors. It is when we are old, concerned with our name, our legend, what our lives…
— Michael Ondaatje
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All of the Ten Commandments that are good were old; all that were new art foolish. If Jehovah had been civilized he would have left…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing a…
— Charlotte Bronte
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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…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Who Wrote These Graven Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 13 Graven Quotes as follows: