Some of the opposition to the national monuments may be ideological. Western ranchers and sportsmen have long complained about what they see… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but… — Karl Philipp Moritz Copy Share Image
“Sentence every immoral thought for detention and prosecution. Immorality is a powerful gadget that brings down great monuments of success. Don’t entertain… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years… — Ben Shahn 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
President Theodore Roosevelt, who signed the Antiquities Act into law, created 18 monuments, including the Grand Canyon and Olympic National Park in… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
Why should the Eisenhower memorial be over twice the size of WWII Memorial? Why should it be so vast as to comfortably… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of monuments to adults - usually dead and usually white. But we don't often lift up the extraordinary… — Ruby Bridges Copy Share Image
What is it we want out of travel? Is it to take snapshots of ourselves in front of famous monuments, surrounded by… — Chris Pavone 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
“History is a living entity. Not just because of its survivors, and the stories they have to tell, but because of its… — Dan Fesperman Copy Share Image
As a people, our monuments never commemorate victories. They commemorate the names of the fallen. We don't need the Arc de Triomphe;… — David Elazar 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
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
It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away. — Nathaniel Parker Willis 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
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
Let's find those people whose names do not cause controversy in our present and in our future. Let's name the monuments and… — Volodymyr Zelensky Copy Share Image
“Chernobyl haunts us with the reminder that all of man’s ambitions are ephemeral. Our grandest designs and sturdiest monuments,” — Josh Gates Copy Share Image
“When all has been said and done, When all the wealth has been amassed, When all the battles have been fought and… — Phumi Ngwane Copy Share Image
The Taj, the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Cracao Basilica and Polish church are some monuments that hold a special place in my… — Shaan Copy Share Image
I feel like D.C. is one of the places in America that really holds on to history. The monuments inspire me, especially… — Skylar Grey Copy Share Image
The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human… — Vicente Fox Copy Share Image
Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books, and the like, we do… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“The monuments, the ideas left behind by beings like me are my greatest pleasure in life. Without books I would long ago… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Many are concerned about the monuments of the West and the East -- to know who built them. For my part, I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Monuments may be builded to express the affection or pride of friends, or to display their wealth, but they are only valuable… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
“Who chose burial monuments? Were the wishes of the deceased taken into consideration? It was a subject I'd never considered before.” — Susan Hubbard Copy Share Image
“I understood monuments now. Some were built of stone and sweat, and others were built of dreams, but they were all made… — Mary E. Pearson Copy Share Image
The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
It is probable that a greater number of monuments of the skill and industry of man will, in the course of the… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
You may go from the Battery to Harlem, and in our monuments and statues of public men you will see the slavish… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
The Beatles never got through to all ages, nor did Elvis Presley, or any of the other monuments of mediocrity that we've… — Frank Sinatra Jr Copy Share Image
“Granite from New Hampshire has been used in construction at Arlington National Cemetery, the Library of Congress, New York’s Brooklyn Bridge, and… — Lori Baird Copy Share Image
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
