“Sometimes our experiences helps us build the monument that forms the base for what God wants us to do.” — Bidemi Mark-Mordi Copy Share Image
Most monuments are not something you're going to keep me out of. And I go to a lot of monuments. — Rob Huebel Copy Share Image
People are quick to make monuments of anything they live long enough to control. — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments. — Antonio Gaudi Copy Share Image
I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal. — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it. — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.” —Cato the Elder” — Greg Ross Copy Share Image
A film star is a kind of public monument, and everyone's staring at them, and they've kind of got railings around them,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday's hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can't build a monument to… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
George McGovern, for all his mistakes... understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Perhaps there never was a monument more characteristic of an age and people than the Alhambra; a rugged fortress without, a voluptuous… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“Many Castles On My Travels i have been A guest in Many castles Yet the Monument Which i Find Divine Is the… — Silent Lotus Copy Share Image
The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institution… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Washington and Lincoln mean as much to us as any two men could mean to a civilization, a people, and age, but… — Gutzon Borglum 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
“...if he fell, well, he fell—but if he survived he would become a monument, not carved in stone or encased in brass,… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“What are the hopes of man? Old Egypt's King Cheops erected the first pyramid And largest, thinking it was just the thing… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The living room is a monument to my impulsive spending habits. I've got more than two hundred DVDs, including cinematic greats such… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
When you travel, you can see lots of great buildings and monuments and stuff, but the best part of traveling is meeting… — Patrick Watson Copy Share Image
Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power, Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to… — Shigeru Ban Copy Share Image
Many women have described their experiences of childbirth as being associated with a spiritual uplifting, the power of which they have never… — Grantly Dick-Read Copy Share Image
To save the culture of your allies is a small thing. To cherish the culture of your enemy, to risk your life… — Robert M. Edsel Copy Share Image
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Europe is... a monument to the vanity of individuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
A monument's dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument. — Arthur Guiterman Copy Share Image
“Within the shadows of honor, courage often walks in silence. -Engraved on the monument Clay built” — Lorraine Heath Copy Share Image
“Even water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our character.” — Hugh B. Brown Copy Share Image
Lets build a monument for the veto. Lets build a monument for impotence and incapacity. — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
I think Bowe Bergdahl, if he deserted, is a hero - I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my… — Agesilaus II Copy Share Image
