A measure of victory has been won, and honors have been bestowed in token thereof. But honours fade or are forgotten, and… — Elizabeth Kenny Copy Share Image
She is so naked and singular. She is the sum of yourself and your dream. Climb her like a monument, step after… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“The first anomalous structure that was discovered at Yonaguni lies below glowering cliffs of the southern shore of the island. Local divers… — Graham Hancock 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
From being a dream, dams have become a very cynical corrupt enterprise; a way of letting governments lay their hands on huge… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Until that moment, I hadn't realized that I embarked on the project of touring historic sites and monuments having to do with… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When I am dead, I will not hurt anymore, will it Mama?...When I am dead, build me a little monument of stones… — Alexei Romanov Copy Share Image
Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've… — Anonymous 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
Louis B. Mayer came out west with $28.00, a box camera and an old lion. He built a monument to himself --… — Bob Hope 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 earnest worker, with hand and brain for the benefit of his fellowmen, could desire a more pleasing recognition of his usefulness… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was attracted to the direct connection with history that land surveyors experience in the form of plans, field notes, and from… — Mark Mason Copy Share Image
I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the… — Karen Essex Copy Share Image
For more than half a century, during which kingdoms and empires have fallen, this Union has stood unshaken. The patriots who formed… — Zachary Taylor 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
Sometimes I imagine a surveyor 100 years from now reading my plan, retracing my boundaries, and finding the monuments that I set.… — Mark Mason Copy Share Image
“ His true monument lies not on the shelves of libraries, but in the thoughts of men, and in the history of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
