Famous quotes containing the words permanent and/or body:
“A country whose buildings are of wood, can never increase in its improvements to any considerable degree.... Whereas when buildings are of durable materials, every new edifice is an actual and permanent acquisition to the state, adding to its value as well as to its ornament.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“Echoes are dull and the body accepts no touch
Except its pain. Mind is a little isle.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)