Monument Quotes

273 quotes by 228 authors

The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to… — Zygmunt Bauman
If the finding of Coines, Medals, Urnes, and other Monuments of famous Persons, or Towns, or Utensils, be admitted for unquestionable Proofs, that such Persons… — Robert Hooke
Another hundred years may pass before we understand the true significance of Apollo. Lunar exploration was not the equivalent of an American pyramid, some idle… — Gene Cernan
The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument. — Madeleine de Scudery
There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument — Robert Musil
The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation. — David Hume
Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave money… — Henry David Thoreau
You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is… — George Bernard Shaw
People are quick to make monuments of anything they live long enough to control. — Hilton Als
A broken heart is a monument to a love that will never die; fulfillment is a monument to a love that is already on its… — George Jean Nathan
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. — Clarence Darrow
The life of Dumas is not only a monument of endeavour and success, it is a sort of labyrinth as well. It abounds in pseudonyms… — William Ernest Henley
The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Facebook is developing, and so are we. Timeline is a big step in the evolution of how we manage our identity online - and it's… — Joe Greene
If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory. — Agesilaus II
It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what I preferred instead.… — Julian Barnes
Stamps from Afghanistan are hilarious. You can tell when the revolutions are because suddenly they stop having pictures of the mullahs and the independence monument… — Samuel West
Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism — Walter Benjamin
Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record… — Bruce Babbitt
I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over the world, so… — Antonio Lobo Antunes

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