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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and… — Francis Bacon 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The graphic emphasis placed on those first lines is rather hard to square with the proposition that the monument expresses no particular… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
“They should build a monument,” Cary said. “All the times I got my ass beat to a pulp so the youth of… — Nell Zink Copy Share Image
In our own case, we don't consider the loss of a monastery or a monument the end of our entire way of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Often the crowd does not recognize a leader until he has gone, and then they build a monument for him with the… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
The weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the… — John Lothrop Motley Copy Share Image
They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate… — Hugh Sidey Copy Share Image
Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining;… — Lee H. Hamilton Copy Share Image
You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I started to draw buildings. I called them Proposed Colossal Monuments - they weren't for real, not for actual building. It was… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the… — Karen Essex Copy Share Image
I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there.… — Chaske Spencer Copy Share Image
“I want to make of your life a monument For the days you lingered in sadness With high towers and wide gardens… — Emmanuelle Soni-Dessaigne Copy Share Image
Are you going to be just kind of a walking monument to a job, or are you going to have some kind… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
When you hear of a notorious sinner, instead of thinking you do well to be angry, beg of Jesus Christ to convert,… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
