Aaron Burr Quotes

Littera scripta manet - 'The written word will remain'. That's true, but it won't be that much comfort to me.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

Write to register history, and name each thing. Write what should not be forgotten.

It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.

On great fields something stays.

There's something very reassuring... about the written record.

Man was very fortunate to have invented the book. Without it, the past would completely vanish, and we would be left with nothing, we would be naked on earth.

A book is the only immortality.

A record is a message, timeless.

There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.

My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

History is not was. It is.

What’s written remains, though a writer is buried beneath the ground.

Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.

How many other people get a chance to be remembered forever? And that's what I really want. I want to be remembered forever.

Nothing is forever, but history is forever.

Washington and Lincoln mean as much to us as any two men could mean to a civilization, a people, and age, but I told Mr. Coolidge when he dedicated this monument that this rock is being carved with a monument that will outlive our government.

I've always subscribed to an old Chinese proverb that the palest ink is better than the best memory.

I preserve things that are significant to me. Only time will determine what is important in the long term. But something can be rediscovered only if someone has collected and preserved it.

They say that art should stand the test of time. Life lasts a limited amount of time. Mountains and trees and earth will outlive human beings, but we don't know if they will be here always. Art does outlast the life span of its maker. Art should communicate to an increasing circle of strangers-people who do not know the artist, but come to know the work, and through the work, come to know something about the humanity of the artist that rings with their own humanity.

You wanna be remembered for making an impact and changing things.And I guess for the good or for the bad, it don't matter. But I guess you just wanna be remembered when it's all said and done.

I like to write about certain things that if they are not written about are not going to exist.

I personally would consider it to be an honour to be fossilized.

... nothing ever dies that's worth remembering.