Quotes & Sayings About Lasting Impressions

Most lives vanish. A person dies, and little by little all traces of that life disappear. An inventor survives in his inventions, an architect survives in his buildings, but most people leave behind no monuments or lasting achievements: a shelf of photograph albums, a fifth-grade report card, a bowling trophy, an ashtray filched from a Florida hotel room on the final morning of some dimly remembered vacation. A few objects, a few documents, and a smattering of impressions made on other people. Those people invariably tell stories about the dead person, but more often than not dates are scrambled, facts are left out, and the truth becomes increasingly distorted, and when those people die in their turn, most of the stories vanish with them. — Paul Auster

If you believe everything comes from God, how can you say this is more important than that? Some things make more lasting impressions, but that's a whole nother question. — Jai Uttal

A producer is a saboteur who tries to infiltrate the passivity of viewers and to create impressions that are lasting. — Bill Moyers

I cried because nineteen years of living could leave behind no more lasting memorial than a few carefully adjusted impressions of a character in a handful of mortal minds. — Valerie Fitzgerald

As Han once told me, "Stealth and subtlety work well, but for making lasting impressions, a blaster does just fine. — Michael A. Stackpole

People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out. — Michael Bassey

All he needed was a locked room, ink, and sheets of virgin paper. This was his anchor, and he embedded it with the few scraps of energy he had left. He instinctively knew that memory and imagination share the same ghost quarters of the brain, that they are like impressions in loose sand, footfalls in snow. Memory normally weighed more, but not here, where the forest washed it away, smoothing out every contour of its vital meaning. Here, he would use imagination to stamp out a lasting foundation that refused the insidious erosions buffeting around him. He would dream his way back to life with impossible facts. — B. Catling

Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign. — Jeb Bush

The old aphorisms are basically sound. First impressions are lasting. — Jessie Redmon Fauset

I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within me. She opened my heart to the lasting impressions of nature; she awakened my understanding and extended my horizon and her percepts exerted an everlasting influence upon the course of my life. — Immanuel Kant

Wonderful is the power of instrumental music, absolute music without words, that may convey impressions, deep and lasting, no words could give. — Aubertine Woodward Moore

Anything with your name should leave a lasting impression! — Marcia Brown

When I was around 7 or 8 my Dad took me to a B.B. King recording session, well, that really did it. Huge and lasting impressions. After all that I pretty much knew playing guitar was something I was going to do because I just had to do it. And I did. — Billy Gibbons

Every woman I have ever known has made a lasting impression on my soul. — Audre Lorde

What you do teaches faster, and has a lasting impression, far beyond what you say. — T.F. Hodge

It is a point that I repeat over and over again in teaching public speaking. It is not so much what you say as it is the tone and manner in which you say it that makes a lasting impression. — Napoleon Hill

There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water. — Kate Chopin

School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull and stupid, only Coke provides relief. And other products, too, of course. — John Taylor Gatto

If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. You memories will be my most lasting impressions. — David Levithan

Funny how someone can come into your life for such a brief time but leave such a lasting impression. — Monica Murphy