Mama, don't forget to put a little monument on my tomb when I'm dead. — Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia Copy Share Image
Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil. — Kin Hubbard Copy Share Image
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
a young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
An architect does not need to spend his whole career making monuments for rich people. — Shigeru Ban Copy Share Image
Here were decent godless people; Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
My attitude is, a monument, a statue, ought to signify unity instead of division. — Bill Nelson Copy Share Image
All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity. — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation. — David Hume Copy Share Image
If so men's memories not a monument be, None shalt thou have. Warm hearts, and not cold stone, Must mark thy grave,… — John Vance Cheney 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
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
nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay,… — Erasmus Darwin 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
Someone who expresses a view that is contrary to the view of the overwhelming majority should be allowed to stand undisturbed as… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
In all my shows, I'm not interested in the iconic shots of the Capitol and the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial.… — David Nevins Copy Share Image
before one actually visits them, everyone tends to think of their favorite countries as one grand Disneyland filled with national monuments and… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln was, in my judgment, in many respects, the grandest man ever President of the United States. Upon his monument these… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to which these sights were the monuments and the… — Anonymous 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
“Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When you come to Montgomery, you see fifty-nine monuments and memorials, all about the Civil War, all about Confederate leaders and generals.… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
To engage human energy, human skill, and human talent in the service of peace, for the alternative is unthinkable - war, destruction,… — Albert Lutuli Copy Share Image
I used to walk to the Washington Monument from North L Street Northwest. And I was so hungry at times, I would… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
Excuses are tools of the incompetent used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery. — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one. — Cato the Elder Copy Share Image
Those only deserve a monument who do not need one; that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye. — Thomas Dunn English Copy Share Image
A great city with water barriers and no bridges is like a skyscraper with no elevators. Bridges are a monument to progress. — Joseph Straus Copy Share Image
