The enduring words for Mr. Obama — who reached out his hand at one point toward his wife's knee to answer the question himself — were "Lay Off My Wife".
She spoke, as we all do, a temporal dialect--a speech made up in the main of plain, enduring words, but also of short-lived phrases that belong to a place & moment.
May I repeat the enduring words of Magna Carta: "No freeman is to be imprisoned except by the lawful judgment of his equals or by the law of the land".
She claims she has "always been inspired by the enduring words of the Haggadah: 'In every generation, each of us must see ourselves as if we personally came out of Egypt.' " Indeed, she affirms, "I am deeply moved by this timeless cry to stand up to oppression, tyranny and discrimination — wherever they are found".
Most importantly, I remember the commencement speaker and his enduring words.
Comptroller Stringer says, "As New Yorkers we live by the enduring words of our founding fathers that all men are created equal," Stringer, who is the City's chief fiscal and auditing officer, said in a statement to The Black Star News.
Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963, King began with a reference, by the style of his opening phrase, to President Lincoln and his enduring words: "Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
With each step forward, Armand was not alone in his journey but was guided by the immortal words of his father before he passed, uttered the enduring words in his native Creole tongue, "Kembe pa lage," which means, "hold strong and never give up".
One, displayed near the White House on the second anniversary of the revolution, borrowed the power of Dr. King's enduring words: "I have a dream, let freedom ring from Kafranbel".
"The new rules enlarge the Pulitzer tent and recognize more fully the role of the Web, while underscoring the enduring value of words and of serious reporting".
