#lasting

I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#believe #fifty #had #i #i am

The damage done to this country by its own misconduct in the last few months and years, to its very heart and soul, is far greater and longer lasting than any damage that any terrorist could possibly inflict upon us. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#could #country #damage #done #far

And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#away #close #come #doors #dying

The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude. ↗

— Jeff Miller

#country #earned #gratitude #lasting #our

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. ↗

— Hodding Carter

#bequests #children #give #hope #lasting

...with white dawns and glaring moons, and sunsets smeared with too much color. ↗

— Natalie Babbitt

#tuck-everlasting #beauty

But what doesn’t die is the love we give to others. There is no end to that. ↗

— Gloria Whelan

#lasting #love #courage

You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road. ↗

— Natalie Babbitt

#life #tuck-everlasting #death

I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. (John 11:25-26) ↗

— Anonymous

#charles-dickens #ever-after #everlasting-life #faith #paradise

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. ↗

— Maria Montessori

#establishing #keep #lasting #lasting peace #out