#imprint

There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#imprint #lasting #leave #oar #people

Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#burned #daughters #deep #dna #fear

In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul II. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#few #few men #history #ii #imprint

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#attire #behavior #even #frame #grace

All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn't left an imprint through the generations. ↗

— Michael Johnson

#became #being #believed #descended #determination

Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body. ↗

— Dan Millman

#cells #ever #everything #imprinted #know

The idea that boys want to sleep with their mothers strikes most men as the silliest thing they have ever heard. Obviously, it did not seem so to Freud, who wrote that as a boy he once had an erotic reaction to watching his mother dressing. But Freud had a wet-nurse, and may not have experienced the early intimacy that would have tipped off his perceptual system that Mrs. Freud was his mother. The Westermarck theory has out-Freuded Freud. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#imprinting #sex #sexuality #men

Every day in every way we are leaving our mark. ↗

— Rachael Bermingham

#imprint #inspirational-quotes #life #motivational-quotes #inspirational

What he didn’t know was how to beg for her forgiveness, and at that moment, her forgiveness was what he craved the most…even more than he craved her blood. ↗

— Daniele Lanzarotta

#fallen-angels #imprinted-souls-series #vampires #forgiveness

My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#collection #first #imprint #new #poems