Monument Quotes

273 Monument quotes by 228 unique authors

Until that moment, I hadnâ€™t realized that I embarked on the project of touring historic sites and monuments having to do with the assassinations of… — Sarah Vowell
nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of available… — Carol Shields
The living room is a monument to my impulsive spending habits. I've got more than two hundred DVDs, including cinematic greats such as Monkey Bone,… — Jen Lancaster
In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers; they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Relationships are monuments build on lies — Dan Savage
Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive. — Joyce Carol Oates
I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting… — Franz Kafka
Sitting on the floor, I'd replay the past in my head. Funny, that's all I did, day after day after day for half a year,… — Haruki Murakami
She is so naked and singular. She is the sum of yourself and your dream. Climb her like a monument, step after step. She is… — Anne Sexton
The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power. — Francis Bacon
Great, I thought. We just blowtorched a national monument. — Rick Riordan
No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith. — Louis L'Amour
She never told her love, but let concealment, like a worm 'i th' bud, feed on her damask cheek. She pinned in thought; and, with… — William Shakespeare
Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your… — Maya Angelou
A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures,… — Baroness Orczy
We tend to think of memories as monuments we once forged and may find intact beneath the weedy growth of years. But, in a real… — Diane Ackerman
People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon. — Vanna Bonta
Is there no pity sitting in the clouds That sees into the bottom of my grief? O sweet my mother, cast me not away! Delay… — William Shakespeare
There was movement along the fringe of Chauncey's vision, and he snapped his head to the left. At first glance what appeared to be a… — Becca Fitzpatrick
Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word, once spoken, lingers forever; to… — Margaret George

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