Inscriptions Quotes
57 Inscriptions quotes by 51 unique authors
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I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It…
— Zahi Hawass
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Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.
— Horace
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I love you is the inscription on Pandora's box.
— Mason Cooley
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Writing for the page is only one form of writing for the eye. Wherever solemn inscriptions are put up in public places, there is a…
— James Fenton
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Making a mix CD - albeit slightly old school - is generally a pretty cool gift and something I like to receive, or giving someone…
— Ryan Reynolds
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While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he…
— George Bernard Shaw
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The cemetery has ... an inscription: 'Though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death I will Fear No Evil, For Thou Art…
— Margaret Atwood
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Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not…
— Paul Valery
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for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men,…
— Virginia Woolf
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Little by little, studying the infinite possibilities of a loss of memory, he realized that the day might come when things would be recognized by…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long…
— Helene Hanff
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The foundation of individual rights is the assumption that people have wants and needs and are authorities on what those wants and needs are. If…
— Steven Pinker
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Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory of the world.
— Diana Gabaldon
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End of Construction. Thank you 'for your patience. " Inscription on Ruth Bell Graham's grave -- inspired hy a road sign she saw.
— Billy Graham
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True love cannot die,'" Will said, translating the inscription on the back in the light from the corridor. "I can't wear this, Magnus. It's too…
— Cassandra Clare
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I wish you hadn't been so over-courteous about putting the inscription on a card instead of on the flyleaf. It's the bookseller coming out in…
— Helene Hanff
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Where do babies come from? Don't bother asking adults. They lie like pigs. However, diligent independent research and hours of playground consultation have yielded fruitful,…
— Matt Groening
Who Wrote These Inscriptions Quotes
51 authors contributed a total of 57 Inscriptions Quotes, led by these top contributors: