Europe is... a monument to the vanity of individuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little… — Justin Winsor Copy Share Image
The murderer only takes the life of the parent and leaves his character as a goodly heritage to his children, whilst the… — Andrew Jackson 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
There's as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to the planet Mars with… — Morris Sheppard Copy Share Image
They even say that an altar dedicated to Ulysses , with the addition of the name of his father, Laertes , was… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
The monument of death will outlast the memory of the dead. The Pyramids do not tell the tale which was confided to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My grandmother was unsurpassable at sitting. She would sit on tombstones, glaciers, small hard benches with ants crawling over them, fragments of… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
It seems to me that it had no other rationale than to show that we are not simply the country of entertainers,… — Gustave Eiffel Copy Share Image
“The Great Stone at the center of the Somme memorial has this inscription: “Their name liveth for evermore.” The memorial contains 73,077… — Nel Noddings Copy Share Image
Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less… — Maya Angelou 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
Many women have described their experiences of childbirth as being associated with a spiritual uplifting, the power of which they have never… — Grantly Dick-Read Copy Share Image
When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power, Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to… — Shigeru Ban Copy Share Image
Despite my critical take on the city, I love Delhi, on the whole - love its monuments, love how easily graspable the… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
If you go to Gettysburg and take the time, maybe take a tour, maybe just drive around, read some of the monuments,… — Jeff Shaara Copy Share Image
You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck… — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institution… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Washington and Lincoln mean as much to us as any two men could mean to a civilization, a people, and age, but… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
I hate it when people let me down, when things are temporary. I think that's why I want to be an architect."… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family -… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
I haven't got a heart: only the former site of one, with a monument there to say that it has been removed… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Perhaps there never was a monument more characteristic of an age and people than the Alhambra; a rugged fortress without, a voluptuous… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“Many Castles On My Travels i have been A guest in Many castles Yet the Monument Which i Find Divine Is the… — Silent Lotus Copy Share Image
George McGovern, for all his mistakes... understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I have created nothing really beautiful, really lasting, but if I can inspire one of these youngsters to develop the talent I… — Augusta Savage Copy Share Image
You'll never forget October 9, 2005, ... Every time you see the National Mall, every time you see that [Capitol] building back… — Luis Palau Copy Share Image
I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings… — Tommy Douglas Copy Share Image
It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need… — Irvin Kershner Copy Share Image
A film star is a kind of public monument, and everyone's staring at them, and they've kind of got railings around them,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“The greater the monument, the greater the man. The stone the Greeks quarry for his grave is huge and white, stretching up… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday's hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can't build a monument to… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Suppose we took a thousand negatives... combining the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
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