Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining;… — Lee H. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Chernobyl haunts us with the reminder that all of man’s ambitions are ephemeral. Our grandest designs and sturdiest monuments,” — Josh Gates Copy Share Image
Let's find those people whose names do not cause controversy in our present and in our future. Let's name the monuments and… — Volodymyr Zelensky Copy Share Image
Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the… — John Lothrop Motley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of monuments to adults - usually dead and usually white. But we don't often lift up the extraordinary… — Ruby Bridges Copy Share Image
Why should the Eisenhower memorial be over twice the size of WWII Memorial? Why should it be so vast as to comfortably… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
“When all has been said and done, When all the wealth has been amassed, When all the battles have been fought and… — Phumi Ngwane Copy Share Image
“To visit the Tower, then, is to enter into contact not with a historical Sacred, as is the case for the majority… — Roland Barthes 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
The most fitting monuments this nation can build are schoolhouses and homes for those who do the work of the world. It… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
“You may or may not make a million dollars in life, a song may not be sung in praise of you, monuments… — Bernard Kelvin Clive Copy Share Image
“The traveler wishing to observe Islamic Spain has his choice of two cities, Granada with its Alhambra or Córdoba with its Great… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“They passed a succession of granite monuments to the conquering magicians of the late Victorian age and the fallen heroes of the… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
“was it man's love to screw the sky with monuments span the bay with orange and silver bridges shuttling structure into structure… — Gregory Corso Copy Share Image
The Taj, the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Cracao Basilica and Polish church are some monuments that hold a special place in my… — Shaan Copy Share Image
“Sentence every immoral thought for detention and prosecution. Immorality is a powerful gadget that brings down great monuments of success. Don’t entertain… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but… — Karl Philipp Moritz Copy Share Image
Some of the opposition to the national monuments may be ideological. Western ranchers and sportsmen have long complained about what they see… — Tatiana Schlossberg 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
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
President Theodore Roosevelt, who signed the Antiquities Act into law, created 18 monuments, including the Grand Canyon and Olympic National Park in… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
“People create all kind of fancy watches and clocks, never stopping to realize they're building monuments to the greatest of all thieves.” — K. Martin Beckner Copy Share Image
A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for… — Marguerite Gardiner Copy Share Image
'Monuments Men' is a movie... I don't want to say for grown-ups, because some young folks could appreciate it, too. But if… — Grant Heslov Copy Share Image
The Greeks, the Italians, and the Indians, from whom we get our ideas, erect monuments to ideas; we erect ours to men,… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
We must ask ourselves: Are we a confident, forward-looking nation that builds monuments - like DACA - to hope and determination? Or… — Jay Inslee 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
“On Legacy: "What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of… — Oriss Soleyenni Copy Share Image
There are thousands of Ten Commandments plaques or monuments all over the country, and lawsuits to remove them have popped up in… — Phyllis Schlafly 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
“We have not erased history; we are becoming part of the city's history by righting the wrong image these monuments represent and… — Mitch Landrieu Copy Share Image
Ancient monuments 300 to 1000-plus years old are never 'renovated,' only 'restored,' a distinction that escapes the babus. — Subramanian Swamy Copy Share Image
“In this circumstance the text, which both records their actions and describes the monuments they erected, acts as the primary, indeed sole… — Michael A. Flower Copy Share Image
“God calls big trees out of small seeds, so He prepares great monuments out of small minds. He will definitely call those… — Israelmore Ayivor 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
