“It does not seem possible to me to conceive anything sadder than a monument composed of a smooth, naked and unadorned surface,… — Aldo Rossi Copy Share Image
As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
People in suburbia see trees differently than foresters do. They cherish every one. It is useless to speak of the probability that… — Roger Swain Copy Share Image
All over France, in every city there stand cathedrals like this one, triumphant monuments of the past. They tower over the homes… — Sonya Levien Copy Share Image
Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare , rise; I will not lodge thee by… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
“The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I recognized the great monument from the illustration in the copy of /The Jungle Book/ that my mother kept in the top… — Lee Siegel Copy Share Image
[The works of Archimedes] are without exception, monuments of mathematical exposition; the gradual revelation of the plan of attack, the masterly ordering… — Thomas Little Heath Copy Share Image
The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I beseech those whose piety will permit them reverently to petition, that they will pray for this union, and ask that He… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Where dwells the religion? Tell me first where dwells electricity, or motion, or thought or gesture. They do not dwell or stay… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are some monuments where the land is so widespread, they just encompass as much as possible. And the integral part of… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Ah, bien je prétends que les courbes des quatre areêtes du monument, telles que le calcul les a fournies, donneront une grand… — Gustave Eiffel Copy Share Image
I do sort of feel like I'm building my monument with what I do, but it's pretty small and inconsequential compared to… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
At a certain point in history monuments became associated with kitsch, (it had never previously been so) and one might well ask… — Gillo Dorfles Copy Share Image
People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“The liberty, the unalienable, indefeasible rights of men, the honor and dignity of human nature, the grandeur and glory of the public,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Some god or Weltgeist has been making a movie out of us for the past six thousand years, and now we have… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
Up until the late unpleasantness of the Civil war, then, the right of secession was more or less taken for granted in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes - all of them. They must remain standing… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Somehow the pain, the losses, the hurt, the bad, God is able to transform these into something they could have never been,… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
Those who will may raise monuments of marble to perpetuate the fame of heroes. Those who will may build memorial halls to… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
The tourist debauches the great monuments of antiquity, a comic figure, always inapt in his comments, incongruous in his appearance; ...avarice and… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
There's a popular misconception that property boundaries are based on coordinates that surveyors can simply "walk to" with our instruments. The reality… — Mark Mason Copy Share Image
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