I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Then was the monument called "Stonehenge," which stands, as all men know, upon the plain of Salisbury to this very day.” — Knowles James Knowles Copy Share Image
The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sculpture may be almost anything: a monument, a statue, an old coin, a bas-relief, a portrait bust, a lifelong struggle against heavy… — Malvina Hoffman 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
Every kindness we have done is a monument built in our name in the heart of God! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning 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
A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I did not know the woman I would be nor that blood would bloom in me each month like an exotic flower,… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labor's monuments and statues are when a young person… — Bill Shorten Copy Share Image
The [Vietnam War Memorial] Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it.… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
Gypsy [Rose Lee ] was a masterful storyteller, and her memoir and by extension, the musical weren't only Gypsy's monument; they were… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
“I will set up my name in the place where the names of famous men are written, and where no man’s name… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let patriotism have its high days and freedom its monuments, and let the triumphs of navigators and generals be annually observed; but… — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
Moreover, the sciences are monuments devoted to the public good; each citizen owes to them a tribute proportional to his talents. While… — Anonymous 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
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
The major concern ...was to create a monument which would have lasting significance and would be a landmark of our time... Neither… — Eero Saarinen Copy Share Image
That we can come here today and in the presence of thousands and tens of thousands of the survivors of the gallant… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Being a painter myself... whenever I could dispense with architectural precision, I indulged in the picturesque, in which case I sacrificed a… — Charles Negre Copy Share Image
I always wish the hotels were like they are in movies and TV shows, where if you're in Paris, right outside your… — Gilbert Gottfried Copy Share Image
Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands; he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty. — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another… — Joseph Joubert 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
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
Because I'm so big, you have to look at me. I think of myself as a monument. But sometimes I like to… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids. — James Gates Percival Copy Share Image
Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol. — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“And the wind shall say: 'Here were decent Godless people: Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.” — T S Eliot Copy Share Image
No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith. — Louis L'Amour 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
A monument's dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated. — Gutzon Borglum 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
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