Arches Quote by Washington Irving

“meaningless search for random points of correspondence among a hodgepodge of ancient fictions, fables, and myths.”

— Dan Brown

May your character not be a writing upon the sand, but an inscription upon the rock!

— Anonymous

“Ornamentation, festoons, carvings, cartouches, bas-reliefs, countless surprises among the sculptures - and the tones of the facades weathered by time and rain, the pinks…

— Georges Rodenbach

“Words, so much more readily remembered, gradually replace our past with their own. Our birth pangs become pages. Our battles, our triumphs, our trophies,…

— William H. Gass

Like mold on books, grow myths on history.

— Laini Taylor

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

— Pericles

A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the…

— Joseph Addison

“Writing writhed across the surface of the stone, runes that looked a little familiar. Norse, maybe? Some of them looked more like Egyptian. They…

— Jim Butcher

“Oh! ye whose dead lie buried beneath the green grass; who standing among flowers can say- here, here lies my beloved; ye know not…

— Herman Melville

“Then, idly scratching his nose, he walks to the bookcase in the living room and stoops before a set of drab brown Victorian volumes…

— T.E.D. Klein

Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.

— Horace

“They were obviously headstones of graves, though the graves themselves no longer existed as either mounds or depressions; the years had leveled all. Scattered…

— Ambrose Bierce