I like the word monument, because the word monument is a Latin word. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
A tomb is a monument placed on the limits of two worlds. — Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Copy Share Image
Friday, August 04, 2006 MONUMENT posted 8:31 AM Silver nitrous girls pointed into occult winds of porn and destiny. — William Gibson 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
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
'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it. — Claes Oldenburg 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
The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also. — Roger Zelazny 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 erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it. — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
“Some people approached me saying they would like to raise a monument to me like they do in Turkmenistan for Turkmenbashy, I… — Nursultan Nazarbayev Copy Share Image
I told him they built a statue of Schultz, and then he said that a monument is cold comfort to a dead… — John Green Copy Share Image
But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts?… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
A wise nation preserves its records, gathers up its monuments, decorates the tombes of its illustrious dead, repairs its greatest structures and… — Joseph Howe Copy Share Image
a. Critics: people who make monuments out of books. b. Biographers: people who make books out of monuments. c. Poets: people who… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a… — Ernest Thompson Seton Copy Share Image
Not one piece of evidence has ever been found to support the Book of Mormon-not a trace of the large cities it… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
The most fitting monuments this nation can build are schoolhouses and homes for those who do the work of the world. It… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should . . . be remoulded into such a shape as will bring… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I was also reminded of one of the unique charms of NYC in the summer: vast piles of rotting garbage piled on… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
I was rather shaken by all the green trees. I always am. It gets me. I don't want to be funny about… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“When we gaze at the magnificence of an ancient monument and ascribe its achievement to one man, we are guilty of spiritual… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What we really need the poet's and orator's I help to keep alive in us is not, then, the common and gregarious… — William James Copy Share Image
When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people anyway. For years I've regarded his existence as a monument to all… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I feel this way about it. World trade means world peace and consequently the World Trade Center buildings in New York ...… — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
When I remember that dizzy summer, that dull, stupid, lovely, dire summer, it seems that in those days I ate my lunches,… — Michael Chabon 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
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
“He that looks for urns and old sepulchral relicks, must not seek them in the ruins of temples, where no religion anciently… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
