Monument Quotes

273 quotes by 228 authors

After independence was gained, one of the first Acts passed by the Greek government was for the protection and preservation of national monuments. — Melina Mercouri
Take the stones people throw at you, and use them to build a monument — Ratan Tata
I feel this way about it. World trade means world peace and consequently the World Trade Center buildings in New York ... had a bigger… — Minoru Yamasaki
The second assault on Fallujah was a monument to brutality and atrocity made in the United States of America. Like the Spanish city of Guernica… — Dahr Jamail
It's time to stop building the shopping malls, the prisons, the stadiums and other tributes to all of our collective failures. It is time that… — Majora Carter
The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to… — Elizabeth Gilbert
The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've died. They're like… — R. J. Palacio
At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of… — Lafcadio Hearn
Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.... — Joseph Joubert
Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able to tell that… — Elizabeth Kolbert
There, in the middle of this mall is the Washington Monument, 555 feet high. But if we put a one in front of that 555… — Louis Farrakhan
Everyone asks about how I'll feel about the tattoos and scars in thirty years. I always say: "I'll like them." I've always loved damaged monuments,… — Emma Forrest
I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience. — Tyrone Power
That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations-at their song, The salmon-falls,… — William Butler Yeats
A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves lest while we are building ideal monuments of Renown and Bliss here we neglect to have our… — James Madison
It seems to me that it had no other rationale than to show that we are not simply the country of entertainers, but also that… — Gustave Eiffel
A measure of victory has been won, and honors have been bestowed in token thereof. But honours fade or are forgotten, and monuments crumble into… — Elizabeth Kenny
You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument. — Eleanor Roosevelt
The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institution may be abused… — George Washington
Saving Italy is an astonishing account of a little known American effort to save Italyâ€™s vast store of priceless monuments and art during World War… — Tom Brokaw

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