Inscription in lobby of the S. F. Bowser Co. office building, Fort Wayne, Ind. I acknowledge God's great help in all things, of which this splendid office is one. One which all our office employees can enjoy. God help us to be grateful.
Quotes about inscription (16 Quotes)
I Pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessing on THIS HOUSE, and on All that shall hereafter Inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof President Franklin D. Roosevelt had this lettered in gold in the marble over the fireplace in the State Dining Room of the White House. The quotation above follows the capitalization used in the inscription.
I love you is the inscription on Pandora's box.
In the 1940s while serving as the executive officer of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives in Washington, D. C., I saw in a Hilton Hotel a placard depicting Uncle Sam, representing America, on his knees in humility and prayer. Beneath the placard was the inscription, 'Not beaten there by the hammer and sickle, but freely, responsibly, confidently.... We need fear nothing or no one save God.' That picture has stayed in my memory ever since America on her knees in recognition that all our blessings come from God America on her knees out of a desire to serve the God of this land by keeping his commandments America on her knees, not driven there in capitulation to some despotic government, but on her knees freely, willingly, gratefully This is the sovereign remedy to all of our problems and the preservation of our liberties.
Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph.
They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
Put no inscription over the grave, except the date of my birth and my death; and, wherever I am buried, let the funeral be perfectly private, with as few persons attending, and as little show and expense as possible.
I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.
As the Swiss inscription says Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden, 'Speech is silvern, Silence is golden' or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.
INSCRIPTION, n. Something written on another thing mostly memorial, intended to commemorate the fame of some illustrious person and hand down to distant ages ... e.g., the name of John Smith, penciled on the Washington monument.
Among the many things he has requested of me to-night, this is the principal,that on his gravestone shall be this inscription.
Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than 'The Individual.'
The commonwealth of Venice in their armoury have this inscription 'Happy is that city which in time of peace thinks of war.'
Not snow, no, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed. Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. Inscription, New York City Post Office adapted from Herodotus.
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. inscription on Kazantakis's tomb in Heraklion, Greece.
EPITAPH, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.