Monument Quotes

273 quotes by 228 authors

The flood will lift the ghosts from the Hollywood lawn cemetery and they will disappear like ether in the now dead air. All the names… — Robert Montgomery
If humans died in a healthy culture, they would not lock out the earth in metal coffins and carve their names on stone monuments, but… — William Irwin Thompson
There is no law by which to determine the superiority of nations; hence the vanity of the claim, and the idleness of disputes about it.… — Lew Wallace
Lets build a monument for the veto. Lets build a monument for impotence and incapacity. — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
There is nothing antithetical in American history, culture, or traditions to teamwork. Teams were important in America's history - wagon trains conquered the West, men… — Lester Thurow
Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money. — Unknown Author
Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti. — David Berlinski
We love the old saints, missionaries, martyrs, and reformers. Our Luthers, Bunyans, Wesleys and Asburys, etc... We will write their biographies, reverence their memories, frame… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The hunter died when he achieved supremacy. Perhaps the death of the hunter will be the long monument to interglacial man. We denied a future… — Robert Ardrey
Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit this monumental act… — Ada Louise Huxtable
How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments! As though any havoc of… — Osbert Sitwell
Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the monuments and the inscriptions. Scarcely… — Benjamin Jowett
As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all… — Karl Philipp Moritz
I have created nothing really beautiful, really lasting, but if I can inspire one of these youngsters to develop the talent I know they possess,… — Augusta Savage
Live a life as a monument to your soul. — Ayn Rand
A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of… — George William Curtis
Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at… — William Shakespeare
Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing. — Unknown Author
A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for… — Mark Twain
I think Bowe Bergdahl, if he deserted, is a hero - I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown deserters. — Bill Ayers

Who Wrote These Monument Quotes

228 authors contributed a total of 273 Monument Quotes, led by these top contributors: