Monument Quotes

273 quotes by 228 authors

Even as water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our character. — Hugh B. Brown
I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line… — Anna Akhmatova
Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of… — John Lothrop Motley
Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people anyway. For years I've regarded his existence as a monument to all the rancid genes… — Hunter S. Thompson
George McGovern, for all his mistakes... understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been,… — Hunter S. Thompson
What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the… — William James
London, black as crows and noisy as ducks, prudish with all the vices in evidence, everlastingly drunk, in spite of ridiculous laws about drunkenness, immense,… — Paul Verlaine
The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought. — Henry Waxman
When you hear of a notorious sinner, instead of thinking you do well to be angry, beg of Jesus Christ to convert, and make him… — George Whitefield
The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy. The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and acts survive and… — Samuel Smiles
Monuments are for the living, not the dead. — Frank Wedekind
I beseech those whose piety will permit them reverently to petition, that they will pray for this union, and ask that He who buildeth up… — Sam Houston
Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness. — Leon Trotsky
I was also reminded of one of the unique charms of NYC in the summer: vast piles of rotting garbage piled on the sidewalks, with… — Andrew Sullivan
Moreover, the sciences are monuments devoted to the public good; each citizen owes to them a tribute proportional to his talents. While the great men,… — Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future — Robert Smithson
Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments. — Antonio Gaudi
I haven't got a heart: only the former site of one, with a monument there to say that it has been removed and the area… — T.E. Lawrence
When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread in Europe--we discover… — Victor Cousin
I find that a real gardener is not a man who cultivates flowers; he is a man who cultivates the soil. He is a creature… — Karel Capek

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