Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to…

Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal…

— Henry David Thoreau

One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon.

— Henry David Thoreau

Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave…

— Henry David Thoreau

As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to China, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

Many are concerned about the monuments of the West and the East -- to know who built them. For my part, I should like…

— Henry David Thoreau

Two thousand summers have imparted to the monuments of Grecian literature, as to her marbles, only a maturer golden and autumnal tint, for they…

— Henry David Thoreau

There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains itsmaxims. It has…

— Henry David Thoreau

The monument of death will outlast the memory of the dead. The Pyramids do not tell the tale which was confided to them; the…

— Henry David Thoreau

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