All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity. — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation. — David Hume Copy Share Image
My attitude is, a monument, a statue, ought to signify unity instead of division. — Bill Nelson Copy Share Image
She is so naked and singular. She is the sum of yourself and your dream. Climb her like a monument, step after… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it. — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“North Carolina has a monument to [Peter Francisco], and no one knows that. That's the kind of stuff that drives me.” — Travis Scott Bowman Copy Share Image
Ultimately, the roast turkey must be regarded as a monument to Boomer's love. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I am Providence, and Providence is myself - together, indissolubly as one, we stand thro' the ages; a fixt monument set aeternally… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The murderer only takes the life of the parent and leaves his character as a goodly heritage to his children, whilst the… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little… — Justin Winsor Copy Share Image
Our original title, you know, was 'The Man in Lincoln's Nose'. Couldn't use it, though. They also wouldn't let us shoot people… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table, the church bells in the morning, the bruised shins of the… — Henry Anatole Grunwald Copy Share Image
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is a greater miracle than all the… — Jerome Lawrence Copy Share Image
The monument of death will outlast the memory of the dead. The Pyramids do not tell the tale which was confided to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To anybody who can hold the Present at its worth without being inappreciative of the Past, it may be forgiven, if to… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The dying boy said: " Father, don't you weep for me; when I get to heaven I will go straight to Jesus… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
The Commonwealth of Learning is not at this time without Master-Builders, whose mighty Designs, in advancing the Sciences, will leave lasting Monuments… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Theatres, actors, critics and public are interlocked in a machine that creaks but never stops. There is always a new season in… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
The life of Dumas is not only a monument of endeavour and success, it is a sort of labyrinth as well. It… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
God was on the move; God is on the move; and God will always be on the move. Those who walk with… — Scot McKnight Copy Share Image
Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Everywhere we are told that our human resources are all to be used, that our civilization itself means the uses of everything… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The main duty of the historian of mathematics, as well as his fondest privilege, is to explain the humanity of mathematics, to… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
Mama, don't forget to put a little monument on my tomb when I'm dead. — Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia Copy Share Image