How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments! As though… — Osbert Sitwell 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
In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate… — Hugh Sidey Copy Share Image
We discovered, like infants opening their eyes for the first time, that God's coming upon earth out of love for us had… — Chiara Lubich Copy Share Image
To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Art is created in a state of delirium. Anyting else is the restoration of monuments. Collectors are artist that do not have… — Gunter Brus Copy Share Image
The city of Hiroshima stands as more than a monument to massive death and destruction. It stands as a living testament to… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Deep patriots don't just sing the song, 'America the Beautiful' and then go home. We actually stick around to defend America’s beauty… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Lets build a monument for the veto. Lets build a monument for impotence and incapacity. — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
Our original title, you know, was `The Man in Lincoln`s Nose`. Couldn`t use it, though. They also wouldn`t let us shoot people… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
It's time to stop building the shopping malls, the prisons, the stadiums and other tributes to all of our collective failures. It… — Majora Carter Copy Share Image
The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it is familiar:… — William Buckland Copy Share Image
It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past -… — Ted Kulongoski Copy Share Image
His icebergs are strange monuments with a symbol embodied in their form and their colours. They do not freeze you when you… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
The graphic emphasis placed on those first lines is rather hard to square with the proposition that the monument expresses no particular… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments. — Antonio Gaudi 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
I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular… — William James 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
Ultimately, the roast turkey must be regarded as a monument to Boomer's love. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“Chicago—this vicious, stinking zoo, this mean-grinning, Mace-smelling boneyard of a city; an elegant rockpile monument to everything cruel and stupid and corrupt… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really an affair… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
