Quotes of Imprint - somelinesforyou

“ In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps. ”

- Dave Barry

“ The art of stamp-collecting is to get a number of good stamps, not to get a good number of any stamps. ”

- Unknown

“ I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps. ”

- Sally Ride

“ Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. ”

- Charles Baudelaire

“ What we remember from childhood we remember forever-permanent ghosts, stamped, imprinted, eternally seen. ”

- Cynthia Ozick

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

- Kate Chopin

“ The most notable fact that culture imprints on women is the sense of our limits. The most important thing one woman can do for another is to illuminate and expand her sense of actual possibilities. ”

- Adrienne Rich

“ Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face. ”

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“ Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God. ”

- Cicero

“ There is no velvet so soft as a mother's lap no rose as lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps. ”

- Archibald Thompson

“ Those who believe in their truth — the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men — leave the earth behind them strewn with corpses. Religions number in their ledgers more murders than the bloodiest tyrannies account for, and those whom humanity has called divine far surpass the most conscientious murderers in their thirst for slaughter. ”

- Emil Cioran

“ I never could get into traditional hobbies, like religion or stamp collecting. I mean, the way you collect stamps is: Every week or so the Postal Service dreams up a new stamp to mark National Peat Bog Awareness Month, or whatever, and you rush down and clog the Post Office lines to buy a batch of these stamps, but instead of putting them to a useful purpose such as mailing toxic spiders to the Publisher's Clearing House, you take them home and just sort of have them… ”

- Dave Barry

“ Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity. He becomes the man from NBC or IBM. The institutional imprint furnishes him with pension, meaning, proofs of existence… ”

- Lewis H. Lapham

“ 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 Eyquem de Montaigne

“ She has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim… her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to Islands of Java and Borneo, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization. ”

- Sylvia Levi
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