I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Lorraine Heath

“They should build a monument,” Cary said. “All the times I got my ass beat to a pulp so the youth of today could…

— Nell Zink

That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations-at their song, The…

— William Butler Yeats

At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument…

— Lafcadio Hearn

We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For…

— Francis Bacon