Monument Quotes

273 quotes by 228 authors

Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked. — Vicente Fox
Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs… — Lee H. Hamilton
It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need for compromise. There… — Irvin Kershner
I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all part… — Chaske Spencer
His icebergs are strange monuments with a symbol embodied in their form and their colours. They do not freeze you when you look at them,… — J D Salinger
The search for truth is, as it always has been, the noblest expression of the human spirit. Man's insatiable desire for knowledge about himself, about… — Raymond B. Fosdick
The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his… — Alfred Armand Montapert
Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let… — Thomas Browne
To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the… — Thomas Browne
Louis B. Mayer came out west with $28.00, a box camera and an old lion. He built a monument to himself -- the Bank of… — Bob Hope
Let patriotism have its high days and freedom its monuments, and let the triumphs of navigators and generals be annually observed; but surely, beyond all… — George Horace Lorimer
Those only deserve a monument who do not need one. — William Hazlitt
Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a… — Washington Irving
Our original title, you know, was `The Man in Lincoln`s Nose`. Couldn`t use it, though. They also wouldn`t let us shoot people on Mount Rushmore.… — Alfred Hitchcock
The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach. — Ayn Rand
But monument themselves memorials need. — George Crabbe
For a hundred years, modern painters, stubbornly and in the face of incessant hostility, have moved, step by step, leaving superb monuments by the wayside,… — Robert Motherwell
We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay, coal, marl, sand,… — Erasmus Darwin
Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than those… — John Muir
What the masses want are monuments. — Jean Drapeau

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