The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol. — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids. — James Gates Percival Copy Share Image
Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
What earnest worker, with hand and brain for the benefit of his fellowmen, could desire a more pleasing recognition of his usefulness… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
It's time to stop building the shopping malls, the prisons, the stadiums and other tributes to all of our collective failures. It… — Majora Carter Copy Share Image
I was attracted to the direct connection with history that land surveyors experience in the form of plans, field notes, and from… — Mark Mason Copy Share Image
Someone who expresses a view that is contrary to the view of the overwhelming majority should be allowed to stand undisturbed as… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
In all my shows, I'm not interested in the iconic shots of the Capitol and the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial.… — David Nevins Copy Share Image
“Chicago—this vicious, stinking zoo, this mean-grinning, Mace-smelling boneyard of a city; an elegant rockpile monument to everything cruel and stupid and corrupt… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The [Vietnam War Memorial] Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it.… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
When you come to Montgomery, you see fifty-nine monuments and memorials, all about the Civil War, all about Confederate leaders and generals.… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
To engage human energy, human skill, and human talent in the service of peace, for the alternative is unthinkable - war, destruction,… — Albert Lutuli Copy Share Image
I used to walk to the Washington Monument from North L Street Northwest. And I was so hungry at times, I would… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
We tend to think of memories as monuments we once forged and may find intact beneath the weedy growth of years. But,… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
These ceremonies and the National Statuary Hall will teach the youth of the land in succeeding generations as they come and go… — Alexander H. Stephens Copy Share Image
The flood will lift the ghosts from the Hollywood lawn cemetery and they will disappear like ether in the now dead air.… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
I find that a real gardener is not a man who cultivates flowers; he is a man who cultivates the soil. He… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
Mind you, Mount Rushmore isn't exactly the Parthenon or the Sistine Chapel either. After the naïve daftness of the Crazy Horse monument,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Gypsy [Rose Lee ] was a masterful storyteller, and her memoir and by extension, the musical weren't only Gypsy's monument; they were… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
“I will set up my name in the place where the names of famous men are written, and where no man’s name… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I did not know the woman I would be nor that blood would bloom in me each month like an exotic flower,… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labor's monuments and statues are when a young person… — Bill Shorten Copy Share Image
The protestant martyrs and their monuments testify to the fact that they died, not on account of ecclesial differences, but because the… — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
This bread and wine are the simple but eloquent monument to the infinite love of the Son of God, around which we… — Abbott Eliot Kittredge Copy Share Image
The city of Hiroshima stands as more than a monument to massive death and destruction. It stands as a living testament to… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
But he said Blanket Hill should be a national monument. And so we came out of his chambers feeling, though while we… — William Kunstler Copy Share Image
I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The second assault on Fallujah was a monument to brutality and atrocity made in the United States of America. Like the Spanish… — Dahr Jamail Copy Share Image
For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Only when the true ends of society have nothing to do with the sublime does "culture" become necessary as a veneer to… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty… — George Will Copy Share Image
Everyone asks about how I'll feel about the tattoos and scars in thirty years. I always say: "I'll like them." I've always… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
“Some people approached me saying they would like to raise a monument to me like they do in Turkmenistan for Turkmenbashy, I… — Nursultan Nazarbayev Copy Share Image
It's no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
I told him they built a statue of Schultz, and then he said that a monument is cold comfort to a dead… — John Green Copy Share Image
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