Monument Quotes · Page 2

A wise nation preserves its records, gathers up its monuments, decorates the tombes of its illustrious dead, repairs its greatest structures and…

— Joseph Howe

Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.

— Maria Edgeworth

An excellent monument might be erected to the Unknown Stockholder. It might take the form of a solid stone ark of faith…

— Felix Riesenberg

If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its…

— Leon Trotsky

You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Gypsy [Rose Lee ] was a masterful storyteller, and her memoir and by extension, the musical weren't only Gypsy's monument; they were…

— Karen Abbott

When you hear of a notorious sinner, instead of thinking you do well to be angry, beg of Jesus Christ to convert,…

— George Whitefield

Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labor's monuments and statues are when a young person…

— Bill Shorten

People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the…

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.

— Vanna Bonta

I do sort of feel like I'm building my monument with what I do, but it's pretty small and inconsequential compared to…

— Jim Woodring

There is no law by which to determine the superiority of nations; hence the vanity of the claim, and the idleness of…

— Lew Wallace

But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare…

— Lafcadio Hearn

The human body has been called the microcosm of the universe, a little world of wonders and a monument of divine wisdom…

— A. B. Simpson

before one actually visits them, everyone tends to think of their favorite countries as one grand Disneyland filled with national monuments and…

— Bette Midler

nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a…

— Carol Shields

Kurt Godel's achievement in modern logic is singular and monumental - indeed it is more than a monument, it is a landmark…

— John von Neumann

Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Come let us mock at the great That had such burdens on the mind And toiled so hard and late To leave…

— William Butler Yeats

Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less…

— Maya Angelou

People are quick to make monuments of anything they live long enough to control.

— Hilton Als

I knew that I shouldn’t have, but I did it all the same; and there you have my epitaph, or one of…

— Michael Chabon

The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

But monument themselves memorials need.

— George Crabbe

For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as…

— Washington Irving