The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history. — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
With all the stones being thrown against me you could build a monument! — Jose Mourinho Copy Share Image
No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“Within the shadows of honor, courage often walks in silence. -Engraved on the monument Clay built” — Lorraine Heath Copy Share Image
The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument. — Arthur Guiterman Copy Share Image
James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“And the wind shall say: 'Here were decent Godless people: Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.” — T S Eliot Copy Share Image
A film star is a kind of public monument, and everyone's staring at them, and they've kind of got railings around them,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday's hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can't build a monument to… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
George McGovern, for all his mistakes... understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I have created nothing really beautiful, really lasting, but if I can inspire one of these youngsters to develop the talent I… — Augusta Savage Copy Share Image
You'll never forget October 9, 2005, ... Every time you see the National Mall, every time you see that [Capitol] building back… — Luis Palau Copy Share Image
nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay,… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
“Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
before one actually visits them, everyone tends to think of their favorite countries as one grand Disneyland filled with national monuments and… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln was, in my judgment, in many respects, the grandest man ever President of the United States. Upon his monument these… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to which these sights were the monuments and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let patriotism have its high days and freedom its monuments, and let the triumphs of navigators and generals be annually observed; but… — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
Moreover, the sciences are monuments devoted to the public good; each citizen owes to them a tribute proportional to his talents. While… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
A monument's dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never. — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
“Even water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our character.” — Hugh B. Brown Copy Share Image
Lets build a monument for the veto. Lets build a monument for impotence and incapacity. — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
I think Bowe Bergdahl, if he deserted, is a hero - I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Louis B. Mayer came out west with $28.00, a box camera and an old lion. He built a monument to himself --… — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my… — Agesilaus II Copy Share Image
Every kindness we have done is a monument built in our name in the heart of God! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands; he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty. — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Because I'm so big, you have to look at me. I think of myself as a monument. But sometimes I like to… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
The bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image