Monument Quotes

273 quotes by 228 authors

The major concern ...was to create a monument which would have lasting significance and would be a landmark of our time... Neither an obelisk nor… — Eero Saarinen
No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well… — Wallace Stegner
I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am trying to do… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end. — Edward Abbey
It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really an affair of individuals. One… — William Dean Howells
A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which… — Samuel Johnson
At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence. — Viktor E. Frankl
In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have crumbled. — Walter Benjamin
Kurt Godel's achievement in modern logic is singular and monumental - indeed it is more than a monument, it is a landmark which will remain… — John von Neumann
Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power, Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their power… — Shigeru Ban
Many women have described their experiences of childbirth as being associated with a spiritual uplifting, the power of which they have never previously been aware.… — Grantly Dick-Read
You'll never forget October 9, 2005, ... Every time you see the National Mall, every time you see that [Capitol] building back there, every time… — Luis Palau
God was on the move; God is on the move; and God will always be on the move. Those who walk with God and listen… — Scot McKnight
People in suburbia see trees differently than foresters do. They cherish every one. It is useless to speak of the probability that a certain tree… — Roger Swain
For more than half a century, during which kingdoms and empires have fallen, this Union has stood unshaken. The patriots who formed it have long… — Zachary Taylor
When I spoke at the St. Lawrence Seaway ceremonies in 1969, I borrowed some words from the monument there which I had joined Queen Elizabeth… — Richard M. Nixon
Ultimately, the roast turkey must be regarded as a monument to Boomer's love. — Tom Robbins
The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death. — Edmund Spenser
The main duty of the historian of mathematics, as well as his fondest privilege, is to explain the humanity of mathematics, to illustrate its greatness,… — George Sarton
I turned down the OBE because its not a club you want to join when you look at the villains whove got it. Its all… — Ken Loach

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