Monument Quotes

273 quotes by 235 authors

I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist. — Paul Harvey
Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic monuments, there will… — Gerald Durrell
Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences, to the exclusion… — Richard Kirwan
Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids. — James Gates Percival
It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument, and to convey some knowledge of us to the most… — Montgomery Schuyler
I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments. — Jean-Andre Deluc
The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the mighty revolutions and… — William Buckland
The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it is familiar: hence the taste… — William Buckland
To engage human energy, human skill, and human talent in the service of peace, for the alternative is unthinkable - war, destruction, and desolation; and… — Albert Lutuli
We discovered, like infants opening their eyes for the first time, that God's coming upon earth out of love for us had radically changed the… — Chiara Lubich
The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep… — Leo Tolstoy
There's as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington Monument… — Morris Sheppard
The monument I want after I am dead is a monument with two legs going around the world-a saved sinner telling about the salvation of… — Dwight L. Moody
The protestant martyrs and their monuments testify to the fact that they died, not on account of ecclesial differences, but because the issue was the… — Alistair Begg
It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should . . . be remoulded into such a shape as will bring the expenditure of… — Alexander Hamilton
We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the course of this short tour, I became convinced that we must turn to the New World if we wish to see in perfection… — Charles Lyell
To save the culture of your allies is a small thing. To cherish the culture of your enemy, to risk your life and the life… — Robert M. Edsel
If for no other reason, Frank Lloyd Wright would be justly famous for Fallingwater, one of the most extraordinary houses in the world. This biography… — Meryle Secrest
As a people, our monuments never commemorate victories. They commemorate the names of the fallen. We don't need the Arc de Triomphe; we have Masada,… — David Elazar

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