Parchment Quotes

39 quotes by 35 authors

No compact among men . . . can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words,… — George Washington
There are many self-help books by Ph.D.s, but I hold a different degree: an I.B.T.I.A.-I've Been Through It All. This degree comes not on parchment… — Joan Rivers
[A] mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to a… — James Madison
A great deal of what many Americans hold dear is nowhere written on those four pages of parchment, or in any of the amendments. What… — Jill Lepore
The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary. — Alfred Kreymborg
The girl's face was the color of talcum. Her uncle's was a death mask, a bone structure overlaid by parchment. Shane's was granite, with a… — Cornell Woolrich
Perhaps, some day, humanity can start afresh, a new world, a tabula rasa, a world with a mind without prior experiences. No memories and no… — Henry Martyn
The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change; Then let it come: I have no dread of what Is called for by the instinct of… — James Russell Lowell
I still use quill and parchment. I do e-mails, and I write, but I don't go around surfing too much. — Oscar Nunez
The Constitution is a 200-year-old parchment, simply because we digitize the words should not suggest their meanings change. — Ed Markey
I'm a fan of parchment and wood pulp. — Daniel Clowes
Never has there been a map, however carefully executed to detail and scale, which has carried its owner over even one inch of ground. Never… — Og Mandino
And by the Sacred Parchment, I swear that if I reveal the secrets of The Stonecutters, may my stomach become bloated and my head be… — Homer
Pen, wax and parchment govern the world. — Benjamin Franklin
When I think of the flag.... I see alternate strips of parchment upon which are written the rights of liberty and justice, and stripes of… — Woodrow Wilson
I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen in school notebooks.… — Charles de Lint
The house became full of love. Aureliano expressed it in poetry that had no beginning and no end. He would write it on the harsh… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books… — Umberto Eco
I had always found comfort in the leaves, in their silence. They were like a parchment that holds words of wisdom. Simply holding them in… — Silas House
Human knowledge consists not only of libraries of parchment and ink - it is also comprised of the volumes of knowledge that are written on… — Michael Jackson

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