Despite my critical take on the city, I love Delhi, on the whole - love its monuments, love how easily graspable the… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
Where dwells the religion? Tell me first where dwells electricity, or motion, or thought or gesture. They do not dwell or stay… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Because I'm so big, you have to look at me. I think of myself as a monument. But sometimes I like to… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
A broken heart is a monument to a love that will never die; fulfillment is a monument to a love that is… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity. — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Somehow the pain, the losses, the hurt, the bad, God is able to transform these into something they could have never been,… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
These ... tables (values of trignometric functions), constructed by means of new techniques based principally on the calculus of differences, are one… — Adrien-Marie Legendre 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
Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere "survivals" - as funereal urns carved on… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.... — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Another hundred years may pass before we understand the true significance of Apollo. Lunar exploration was not the equivalent of an American… — Gene Cernan Copy Share Image
It's no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than… — Charles Caleb Colton 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
Mind you, Mount Rushmore isn't exactly the Parthenon or the Sistine Chapel either. After the naïve daftness of the Crazy Horse monument,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated. — Ambrose Bierce 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
Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti. — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
