Monument Quotes · Page 6

My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never.

— Craig Brown

Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave…

— T. S. Eliot

Lets build a monument for the veto. Lets build a monument for impotence and incapacity.

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

I think Bowe Bergdahl, if he deserted, is a hero - I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown…

— Bill Ayers

“Even water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our character.”

— Hugh B. Brown

[Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology.

— Georges Cuvier

Character and Integrity, a monument that the force of time can never erode

— Melchor Lim

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

— Anonymous

History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every…

— Samuel Johnson

The protestant martyrs and their monuments testify to the fact that they died, not on account of ecclesial differences, but because the…

— Alistair Begg

This bread and wine are the simple but eloquent monument to the infinite love of the Son of God, around which we…

— Abbott Eliot Kittredge

But he said Blanket Hill should be a national monument. And so we came out of his chambers feeling, though while we…

— William Kunstler

The city of Hiroshima stands as more than a monument to massive death and destruction. It stands as a living testament to…

— Edward Kennedy

I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table, the church bells in the morning, the bruised shins of the…

— Henry Anatole Grunwald

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is a greater miracle than all the…

— Jerome Lawrence

The life of Dumas is not only a monument of endeavour and success, it is a sort of labyrinth as well. It…

— William Ernest Henley

God was on the move; God is on the move; and God will always be on the move. Those who walk with…

— Scot McKnight

Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Everywhere we are told that our human resources are all to be used, that our civilization itself means the uses of everything…

— Muriel Rukeyser

The dying boy said: " Father, don't you weep for me; when I get to heaven I will go straight to Jesus…

— Dwight L. Moody

Theatres, actors, critics and public are interlocked in a machine that creaks but never stops. There is always a new season in…

— Peter Brook

The Commonwealth of Learning is not at this time without Master-Builders, whose mighty Designs, in advancing the Sciences, will leave lasting Monuments…

— John Locke

The question now at issue, whether the living species are connected with the extinct by a common bond of descent, will best…

— Charles Lyell

Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.

— Steven Grayhm

The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his…

— Alfred Armand Montapert

It's very hard to go to Monument Valley and not think of John Ford's films.

— Janusz Kaminski

The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

With all the stones being thrown against me you could build a monument!

— Jose Mourinho

“Si monumentum requiris circumspice (If you seek his monument, look around.) [ Epitaph on Wren's tomb in St. Paul's Cathedral ]”

— Christopher Wren

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

— Lew Wallace

Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.

— Leon Trotsky

The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.” —Cato the Elder”

— Greg Ross

Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.

— Maria Edgeworth

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I have done any honorable exploit, that is my monument; but if I have done none, all your statues will signify…

— Agesilaus II

I feel like D.C. is one of the places in America that really holds on to history. The monuments inspire me, especially…

— Skylar Grey