A tomb is a monument placed on the limits of two worlds. — Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Copy Share Image
Excuses are tools of the incompetent used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery. — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one. — Cato the Elder Copy Share Image
Those only deserve a monument who do not need one; that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye. — Thomas Dunn English Copy Share Image
A great city with water barriers and no bridges is like a skyscraper with no elevators. Bridges are a monument to progress. — Joseph Straus Copy Share Image
The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments! As though… — Osbert Sitwell Copy Share Image
The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy. The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Suppose we took a thousand negatives... combining the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
Sadly, a prize for peace is a rarity in this world. Most nations have monuments or memorials to war, bronze salutations to… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
His icebergs are strange monuments with a symbol embodied in their form and their colours. They do not freeze you when you… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
The great monuments are raised up like dams, pitting the logic of majesty and authority against all the shady elements: it is… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
We usually break the story first. For instance, on The Monuments Men, and this one is more complicated because there's a lot… — Grant Heslov Copy Share Image
Saving Italy is an astonishing account of a little known American effort to save Italy’s vast store of priceless monuments and art… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
There was movement along the fringe of Chauncey's vision, and he snapped his head to the left. At first glance what appeared… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes -all of them. They must remain standing because… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
I have wished you dead and myself dead. How could it be otherwise. I have broken into you like a burglar. And… — Alicia Ostriker Copy Share Image
Actually there were many officers' clubs that Yossarian had not helped build, but he was proudest of the one on Pianosa. It… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us… — William James Copy Share Image
One of the glories of doing the book So You Want to Be President? was the shifts in tone, where I was… — David Small Copy Share Image
If the finding of Coines, Medals, Urnes, and other Monuments of famous Persons, or Towns, or Utensils, be admitted for unquestionable Proofs,… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
“It is good to recall that three centuries ago, around the year 1660, two of the greatest monuments of modern history were… — Abdus Salam Copy Share Image
In my plea for freedom to all consciences in matters merely of worship, I have impartially pleaded for freedom of the consciences… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
What joins the Americans one to another is not a common ancestry, language or race, but a shared work of the imagination… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He that looks for urns and old sepulchral relicks, must not seek them in the ruins of temples, where no religion anciently… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
We discovered, like infants opening their eyes for the first time, that God's coming upon earth out of love for us had… — Chiara Lubich Copy Share Image
“In May of 1861, Brigham and his entourage stopped at Mountain Meadows and stopped at the rock cairn that had been built… — David Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
