Monument Quotes

273 Monument quotes by 228 unique authors

I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement -… — Sylvester Stallone
Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to… — Hunter S. Thompson
If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with… — George Will
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent. — Frank Lloyd Wright
I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are… — Nicholas Sparks
a young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief — William Shakespeare
My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors… — Mark Twain
I knew that I shouldnâ€™t have, but I did it all the same; and there you have my epitaph, or one of them, because my… — Michael Chabon
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is a greater miracle than all the sticks turned to… — Jerome Lawrence
I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that… — William James
With monuments as with men, position means everything. — Honore de Balzac
Actually there were many officers' clubs that Yossarian had not helped build, but he was proudest of the one on Pianosa. It was a sturdy… — Joseph Heller
The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall, nations perish, civilizations grow old… — Clarence Day
To accept your country without betraying it, you must love it for that which shows what it might become. America -- this monument to the… — Cornel West
The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man. — Alexis de Tocqueville
We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they're gone. — Richard Paul Evans
Friday, August 04, 2006 MONUMENT posted 8:31 AM Silver nitrous girls pointed into occult winds of porn and destiny. — William Gibson
Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to… — William S. Burroughs
When I remember that dizzy summer, that dull, stupid, lovely, dire summer, it seems that in those days I ate my lunches, smelled another's skin,… — Michael Chabon

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