Famous quotes containing the word perpetual:
“Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
“The moment when she crawled out onto the back of the open limousine in which her husband had been murdered was the first and last time the American people would see Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis crawl.... She was the last great private public figure in this country. In a time of gilt and glitz and perpetual revelation, she was perpetually associated with that thing so difficult to describe yet so simple to recognize, the apotheosis of dignity.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)