Monument Quotes

273 quotes by 235 authors

People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol. — Pamela Anderson
All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity. — Baron d'Holbach
But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye. — Thomas Dunn English
The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: 'If you… — Ludwig von Mises
People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated.… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all… — Honore de Balzac
Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man. — George S. Patton
Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument. — Arthur Guiterman
A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Another well-known Paris landmark is the Arc de Triomphe, a moving monument to the many brave women and men who have died trying to visit… — Dave Barry
If I have a monument in this world, it is my son. — Maya Angelou
Those who will may raise monuments of marble to perpetuate the fame of heroes. Those who will may build memorial halls to remind those who… — Joshua Chamberlain
Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every… — William Morris Hunt
If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of… — Thomas Jefferson
The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At Adam, every time.… — Mark Twain
The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it. — Pliny the Younger
Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand… — Toni Morrison

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