Indelible Mark Quotes

This acting is going to leave my stain. Not just my mark, because you can wipe a mark off. But a stain: it's going to take a whole lot to get that out, and that's how I'm going to leave my stain on this world.

Leave a mark they can't erase, neither space nor time.

I don't want to be remembered, because I'm not planning on going. I'm staying!

Character is a mark cut upon something, and this indelible mark determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

I'd like to end up sort of unforgettable.

I selected an enormous Marine Corps emblem to be tattooed across my chest. It required several sittings and hurt me like the devil, but the finished product was worth the pain. I blazed triumphantly forth, a Marine from throat to waist. The emblem is still with me. Nothing on earth but skinning will remove it.

Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?

Confidence is the stain they can't wipe off.

Once I finally stepped on the moon, no matter what was to come of the next three days - or the rest of my life - nobody could take those steps from me. People ask how long will they be there, and I say forever, however long forever is, like my daughter’s initials that I scribbled in the sand [TDC for Tracy Dawn Cernan].

The life doesn't simply get erased. It gets imprinted and remembered.

Few characters in history are indispensable.

Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget.

What I have done cannot be taken from me.

I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how many new owners take possession, no matter how many times we pint over it.

The skyline is etched in my veins. You can never put that out, no matter how hard it rains.

At some unnoticed moment, I began to understand that a life is written in indelible ink.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.

When you say, 'I'm going to sing it once, and everyone is going to hear it forever,' that's kind of frightening.

Indelible, adj. That first night, you took your finger and pointed to the top of my head, then traced a line between my eyes, down my nose, over my lips, my chin, my neck, to the center of my chest. It was so surprising. I knew I would never mimic it. That one gesture would be yours forever.

A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone; what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.

A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the work of the world.

You're burned into my mind forever. There is nothing, nothing in this world that will ever change that.

She gets on you under your skin like a tattoo she'll always be there!

I'm looking forward to having one of those moments that will be immortal.