Engraved Quotes - Page 3

• Those memories that are engraved within me become teaching tools, ways of connecting with others, of creating an empathic bridge, of reaching out a hand and saying, I've been there, too.

  Dani Shapiro

  Memories, Teaching, Creating

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My mother taught me that family comes first. It is engraved on my heart.

  Cung Le

  Mother, Heart, Mma

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• I think the silhouette of the kimono costume will become engraved in people's minds. I do think there'll be lots of red accents in the near future. For me personally, I can't see myself flaunting around in a geisha uniform but it'll make me smile when I see what others do with it.

  Colleen Atwood

  Thinking, People, Mind

  "Geisha style is a hit with Westerners". www.today.com. December 8, 2005.

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

  Horace

  Leader, Soul, Return

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 524-25, Carmina, IV. 8, 1922.

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• Quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts.

  Winston Churchill

  Memories, Giving, Good Thoughts

  My Early Life ch. 9 (1930)

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• Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass; give me plain glass.

  John Fowles

  Glasses, Giving, Stained Glass

  John Fowles (2010). “Wormholes”, p.25, Random House

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• My face on every coin engraved, the anarchists are all enslaved. My flag is forever waved, by the grateful people I have saved.

  Don McLean

  Grateful, People, Forever

  Don McLean (2008). “The Legendary Songs of Don McLean (Songbook)”, p.82, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• I've learned that when someone does something very kind and refuses payment, giving them an engraved Swiss Army knife is never refused!

  Christine Lavin

  Army, Knives, Giving

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• My wife is really sentimental. One Valentine's Day I gave her a ring and to this day she has never forgotten those three little words that were engraved inside Made in Taiwan!

  Leopold Fechtner

  Best Love, Valentine, Wife

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• I shall be found with 'Indians' engraved on my brain when I am dead. A fire has been kindled within me, which will never go out.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Fire, Brain, Found

  Helen Hunt Jackson (1998). “The Indian Reform Letters of Helen Hunt Jackson, 1879-1885”, p.56, University of Oklahoma Press

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• Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

  Jules Renard

  Smile, Wrinkles, Getting Older

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• Ah, this is fine," he cried triumphantly, holding up a small medallion on a chain. He dusted it off, and engraved on one side were the words "WHY NOT?" "That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.

  Norton Juster

  Why Not, Sides, Reason

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.42, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I want you to steal something." I smiled. "Do you want the king's seal? I can get it for you." "If I were you," said the magus, "I'd stop bragging about that." His voice grated. My smile grew. The gold ring with the engraved ruby had been in his safekeeping when I had stolen it away.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kings, Voice, Gold

  Megan Whalen Turner (2009). “The Thief”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Every word you have ever uttered, is engraved upon my heart. -Lazarus to his mother.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Mother, Heart, Lazarus

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• ‎Should we do this now?" Pam gave an almost inaudible snort. She was smiling in the glow of the streetlight, suddenly exhilarated. "You waiting for an engraved invite?" Lord save me from sarcastic vampires.

  Charlaine Harris

  Sarcastic, Waiting, Vampire

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.964, Penguin

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• Patch reached for my hand and pushed my dad's ring off the tip of his finger and into my palm, curling my fingers around it. He kissed my knuckles. "I was going to give this back earlier, but it wasn't finished." I opened my palm and held the ring up. The same heart was engraved on the underside, but now there were two names carved on either side of it: NORA and JEV. I looked up. "Jev? That's your real name?" "Nobody's called me that in a long time.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Dad, Real, Heart

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.539, Simon and Schuster

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• The poets and philosophers I once loved had it wrong. Death does not come to us all, nor does the passage of time dim our memories and reduce our bodies to dust. Because while I was considered dead, and a headstone had been engraved with my name, in truth my life was just beginning.

  Kevin Williamson

  Memories, Dust, Names

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• HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE.

  Harlan Ellison

  Hate, Layers, Miles

  "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream: Stories". Book by Harlan Ellison, April 29, 2014.

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• When I turned the corner, I saw Toni waving at me from the elevator. I think I've already told you how it made me feel to see her smile and wave at me. You can have your sunsets and waterfalls. If a piano were to suddenly fall on my head, that's the image I'd want forever engraved in my mind. —Alton Richard

  Louis Sachar

  Fall, Sunset, Thinking

  Louis Sachar (2010). “The Cardturner”, p.253, A&C Black

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• Leaning her silly, beautiful, drunken head on my shoulder, she said, "Oh, Esther, I don't want to be a feminist. I don't enjoy it. It's no fun." "I know," I said. "I don't either." People think you decide to be a "radical," for God's sake, like deciding to be a librarian or a ship's chandler. You "make up your mind," you "commit yourself" (sounds like a mental hospital, doesn't it?). I said Don't worry, we could be buried together and have engraved on our tombstone the awful truth, which some day somebody will understand: WE WUZ PUSHED.

  Joanna Russ

  Beautiful, Fun, Tombstone

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• that was the plan? part of it, you don't wan tot know the rest. i believe the word 'these dog colllars would make excellent restraints' were involved. it was a brilliant idea. and we only got really cute well-made collars. this is my favorite. we had the tag engraved to say BUBBA.

  Michele Jaffe

  Cute, Dog, Believe

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• Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.

  May Sarton

  Children, Powerful, Entrepreneur

  May Sarton (2014). “I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography”, p.73, Open Road Media

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• Her partially open lips now opened wide, and her soft, fragrant tongue entered his mouth, where it began a relentless search for unformed words, for a secret code engraved there. Tengo's own tongue responded unconsciously to this movement and soon their tongues were like two young snakes in a spring meadow, newly wakened from their hibernation and hungrily intertwining, each led on by the other's scent.

  Haruki Murakami

  Spring, Snakes, Two

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• People's talk and the stories they tell have been engraved on my heart, and some of them have flown into my pen.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Heart, People, Stories

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• We were born with four words engraved on our bodies and in our hearts: Love me, hold me.

  David Richo

  Heart, Body, Four

  David Richo (2014). “How to Be an Adult in Love: Letting Love in Safely and Showing It Recklessly”, p.73, Shambhala Publications

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