Quotes & Sayings About Investiture

Still," I continued, "we don't have to worry about that until we find the princess. And to do that, I think we need to know if it's Neomar or Melaina we're dealing with. She said that she wished her family had been able to attend her investiture. So maybe she's related to one of them."
"But how can we find that out, without walking up to them and asking, 'So, your sister wasn't the oracle who betrayed Thorvaldor, was she?' I think, maybe, that might make them suspicious. — Eilis O'Neal

There is this presumption, in those who feel destined for art and above all literature: we act as if we had received an investiture, but in fact no one has invested us with anything, it is we who have authorized ourselves to be authors. — Elena Ferrante

We do not want freedom without bread, nor do we want bread without freedom. Investiture, Clark University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, July 10, 1993 — Nelson Mandela

He handed me the keys. My hand closed over them. It felt like a formal investiture. — Charlaine Harris

Reality is the beginning not the end,
Naked Alpha, not the hierophant Omega,
Of dense investiture, with luminous vassals. — Wallace Stevens