Let our object be - our country, our whole country, and…

[Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology.

— Georges Cuvier

Actually there were many officers' clubs that Yossarian had not helped build, but he was proudest of the one on Pianosa. It was a…

— Joseph Heller

I believe that Communism is necessary to the world, and I believe that the heroism of Russia has fired men's hopes in a way…

— Bertrand Russell

In spite of my great admiration for individual splendid talents I do not accept the star system. Collective creative effort is the root of…

— Constantin Stanislavski

“Within the shadows of honor, courage often walks in silence. -Engraved on the monument Clay built”

— Lorraine Heath

When you come to Montgomery, you see fifty-nine monuments and memorials, all about the Civil War, all about Confederate leaders and generals. We have…

— Bryan Stevenson

I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all…

— Chaske Spencer

History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less,…

— Samuel Johnson

When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie buried under…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I viewed the station as a place, a terrain where I could put a new architecture in place. The station was, of course, an…

— Gae Aulenti

There's as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington…

— Morris Sheppard

The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institution may be…

— George Washington

A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall,…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power, Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their…

— Shigeru Ban

“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire…

— George Bernard Shaw