Monument Quotes

273 quotes by 228 authors

If the Bible is not the Word of God and inspired, the whole of Christendom for 1800 years has been under an immense delusion; half… — J C Ryle
Cities are beautiful because they are created slowly; they are made by time. A city is born from a tangle of monuments and infrastructures ,… — Renzo Piano
One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon. — Henry David Thoreau
Excuses are tools of the incompetent used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness — Barack Obama
Yeah! I went to the set of Monuments Men. — Don Cheadle
After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one. — Cato the Elder
Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunities.… — Justin Winsor
The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history. — Lew Wallace
The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between… — Ernest Thompson Seton
If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any… — Leon Trotsky
You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to… — Edward Everett Hale
Come let us mock at the great That had such burdens on the mind And toiled so hard and late To leave some monument behind,… — William Butler Yeats
MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated. — Ambrose Bierce
I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all… — Bruce Babbitt
It is probable that a greater number of monuments of the skill and industry of man will, in the course of the ages, be collected… — Charles Lyell
Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same… — Bertrand Russell
For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as if we were… — Washington Irving
The city of Hiroshima stands as more than a monument to massive death and destruction. It stands as a living testament to the necessity for… — Edward Kennedy
An architect does not need to spend his whole career making monuments for rich people. — Shigeru Ban
Theatres, actors, critics and public are interlocked in a machine that creaks but never stops. There is always a new season in hand and we… — Peter Brook

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