How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments! As though… — Osbert Sitwell Copy Share Image
The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy. The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
His icebergs are strange monuments with a symbol embodied in their form and their colours. They do not freeze you when you… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Sadly, a prize for peace is a rarity in this world. Most nations have monuments or memorials to war, bronze salutations to… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The great monuments are raised up like dams, pitting the logic of majesty and authority against all the shady elements: it is… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
The hunter died when he achieved supremacy. Perhaps the death of the hunter will be the long monument to interglacial man. We… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
When you travel, you can see lots of great buildings and monuments and stuff, but the best part of traveling is meeting… — Patrick Watson Copy Share Image
The living room is a monument to my impulsive spending habits. I've got more than two hundred DVDs, including cinematic greats such… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
Had he been willing to live a hypocrite, he would have been respectable, he at least could have died surrounded by other… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“What are the hopes of man? Old Egypt's King Cheops erected the first pyramid And largest, thinking it was just the thing… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
We usually break the story first. For instance, on The Monuments Men, and this one is more complicated because there's a lot… — Grant Heslov Copy Share Image
Saving Italy is an astonishing account of a little known American effort to save Italy’s vast store of priceless monuments and art… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes -all of them. They must remain standing because… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Actually there were many officers' clubs that Yossarian had not helped build, but he was proudest of the one on Pianosa. It… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen,… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
In the course of this short tour, I became convinced that we must turn to the New World if we wish to… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
I am Providence, and Providence is myself - together, indissolubly as one, we stand thro' the ages; a fixt monument set aeternally… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The monument I want after I am dead is a monument with two legs going around the world-a saved sinner telling about… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America’s power. It has been the symbol of our great nation,… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“My Tennessee family had storm shelters. Dug into hillsides before I was born. All unused as I saw them. Just shelters for… — Damon Thomas Copy Share Image
Monuments may be builded to express the affection or pride of friends, or to display their wealth, but they are only valuable… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
For twenty-seven years I was witness to the spiritual deterioration of my own father, watching day after day how everything human in… — Svetlana Alliluyeva Copy Share Image
As a people, our monuments never commemorate victories. They commemorate the names of the fallen. We don't need the Arc de Triomphe;… — David Elazar Copy Share Image
The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Netherton was looking at the oversized bronze head of a bearded man, its neck having been crudely severed from whatever figure it… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Boswell's Johnson is the word made flesh... an extemporaneous man talking himself into the thick of every occasion (in a world ofoccasions… — Marvin Mudrick Copy Share Image
I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Many are concerned about the monuments of the West and the East -- to know who built them. For my part, I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“...one grows to the belief that, while woman's glory is in her hair, man's glory is to defeat some one. And if… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Is there no pity sitting in the clouds That sees into the bottom of my grief? O sweet my mother, cast me… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
After independence was gained, one of the first Acts passed by the Greek government was for the protection and preservation of national… — Melina Mercouri Copy Share Image
I turned down the OBE because its not a club you want to join when you look at the villains whove got… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
An excellent monument might be erected to the Unknown Stockholder. It might take the form of a solid stone ark of faith… — Felix Riesenberg Copy Share Image
Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There, in the middle of this mall is the Washington Monument, 555 feet high. But if we put a one in front… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those… — Henry Waxman Copy Share Image
