The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Here were decent godless people; Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
[The works of Archimedes] are without exception, monuments of mathematical exposition; the gradual revelation of the plan of attack, the masterly ordering… — Thomas Little Heath Copy Share Image
A great city with water barriers and no bridges is like a skyscraper with no elevators. Bridges are a monument to progress. — Joseph Straus Copy Share Image
(Five) thinkers since Galileo, each informing his successor of what discoveries his own lifetime had seen achieved, might have passed the torch… — William James 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
After independence was gained, one of the first Acts passed by the Greek government was for the protection and preservation of national… — Melina Mercouri Copy Share Image
We love the old saints, missionaries, martyrs, and reformers. Our Luthers, Bunyans, Wesleys and Asburys, etc... We will write their biographies, reverence… — Aiden Wilson Tozer 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
An architect does not need to spend his whole career making monuments for rich people. — Shigeru Ban 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
A legacy that powerful does not disappear. Next to the Egyptians, the Greeks and Romans were babies. Our modern nations like Great… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
To anybody who can hold the Present at its worth without being inappreciative of the Past, it may be forgiven, if to… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Trees have about them something beautiful and attractive even to the fancy, since they cannot change their places, are witnesses of all… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
The [Vietnam War Memorial] Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
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
Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should . . . be remoulded into such a shape as will bring… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Suppose we took a thousand negatives... combining the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Great Stone at the center of the Somme memorial has this inscription: “Their name liveth for evermore.” The memorial contains 73,077… — Nel Noddings Copy Share Image
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