Quotation Explorer - 'Trace'

Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can't tell you where their children were last night.
Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well. - Eugene Ionesco
He liked the fragility of those moments suspended in time. Those memories whose only function is to leave just a trace in memory. - Chris Marker
In this delicate and unpredictable life, the future is unwritten. Do not take someone for granted today, for once tomorrow dawns upon the indigo night the only remaining trace will be tracks in the sand... - Virginia Alison
The thing with thoughts is that they die, like everything else. But almost everything else leaves a trace behind, even if it's a tiny carcass, some proof that it existed. Unless thoughts are spoken or written or sung or acted upon, there's no evidence that they were ever there. - Adi Alsaid
Trace was just one of those guys who caught your attention no matter if you had a ring on your finger. He would be hot 'til the day he died. Seriously. - Chelsea Lynn Charters The Gossip Web
Self-leaders do not look for followers because they are busily pursuing their influencial dreams that followers will trace and ask for. Followers look for influence and that can be obtained from self-leaders. - Israelmore Ayivor
I've never seen beauty so devastatingas in the linesthat trace our hopeand fall from the stars. - Jessica Kristie
Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Kiss your scars. Fall in love with them. They ought to serve as life-affirming reminders—a lingering trace of hope. The only reason we have these scars is because we survived and are still here. - Kamand Kojouri
The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Very often, gleams of light come in a few minutes' sleeplessness, in a secondperhaps; you must fix them. To entrust them to the relaxed brain is like writing on water; there is every chance that on the morrow there will be no slightest trace left of any happening. - Antonin Sertillanges
So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history. - Plutarch
Atheism is a lack of belief...what about the powers of darkness, and that of light, will you trace both to nothing? Then you must have created yourself. - Michael Bassey Johnson
The best sword that kills without a wound:-WORDS...!Killed without Trace... - Rishi Sethi
An educator should consider that he has failed in his job if he has not succeeded in instilling some trace of a divine dissatisfaction with our miserable social environment. - Anthony Standen
I.Don't trace out your profile--forget your side view--all that is outer stuff.II.Look for your other halfwho walks always next to youand tends to be who you aren't. - Antonio Machado
GENEALOGY, n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own. - Ambrose Bierce
Thin lips trace bold lines across my skin with a single, lingering kiss. - Cassandra Giovanni, Let the Fates Decide
The greatest gift you can leave to humanity is the beautiful trace you left behind yourself that invites people to reason, science and peace! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Even after making up one's mind to the sacrifices Ihad decided upon, there is always left a trace of envyfor those who have triumphed in the melancholystruggle for literary supremacy - Paul Bourget
I got my heart checked, report says it's perfectly normal, there is no trace of love in it - Rushabh Patel
Art is, after all, only a trace like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness. - Robert Henri
All things are like spring dreams, passing with no trace. - Su Tung-po
War erases progress, leaves no trace of improvement. - Graeme Smith
An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.
The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors. - Alexander Hamilton
Without awareness, every one of us is at risk of living trapped, an unfulfilled trace of our Self, by our own sense of who we are - The Truth
God is God. He knows what he is doing. When you can’t trace his hand, trust his heart. - Max Lucado
Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A thought, no matter how small and forgotten, always has an eternal impact on the Cosmos. Most times, we can only see the material and just about beyond the immediate, but if we could trace this thought through all Creation... well, it would be a whole universe in itself. - Adriano Bulla
There is almost no country in Africa where it is not essential to know to which tribe, or which subgroup of which tribe, the president belongs. From this single piece of information you can trace the lines of patronage and allegiance that define the state. - Christopher Hitchens
God is too good to be unkind and He is too wise to be mistaken. And when we cannot trace His hand, we must trust His heart. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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