Monument Quotes

273 Monument quotes by 228 unique authors

I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments. — Jean-Andre Deluc
The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the mighty revolutions and… — William Buckland
The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it is familiar: hence the taste… — William Buckland
To engage human energy, human skill, and human talent in the service of peace, for the alternative is unthinkable - war, destruction, and desolation; and… — Albert Lutuli
We discovered, like infants opening their eyes for the first time, that God's coming upon earth out of love for us had radically changed the… — Chiara Lubich
The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep… — Leo Tolstoy
There's as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington Monument… — Morris Sheppard
The monument I want after I am dead is a monument with two legs going around the world-a saved sinner telling about the salvation of… — Dwight L. Moody
The protestant martyrs and their monuments testify to the fact that they died, not on account of ecclesial differences, but because the issue was the… — Alistair Begg
It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should . . . be remoulded into such a shape as will bring the expenditure of… — Alexander Hamilton
We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the course of this short tour, I became convinced that we must turn to the New World if we wish to see in perfection… — Charles Lyell
To save the culture of your allies is a small thing. To cherish the culture of your enemy, to risk your life and the life… — Unknown Author
If for no other reason, Frank Lloyd Wright would be justly famous for Fallingwater, one of the most extraordinary houses in the world. This biography… — Unknown Author
As a people, our monuments never commemorate victories. They commemorate the names of the fallen. We don't need the Arc de Triomphe; we have Masada,… — Unknown Author
The major concern ...was to create a monument which would have lasting significance and would be a landmark of our time... Neither an obelisk nor… — Eero Saarinen
No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well… — Wallace Stegner
I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am trying to do… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end. — Edward Abbey
It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really an affair of individuals. One… — William Dean Howells
A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which… — Samuel Johnson
At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence. — Viktor E. Frankl
In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have crumbled. — Walter Benjamin
Kurt Godel's achievement in modern logic is singular and monumental - indeed it is more than a monument, it is a landmark which will remain… — John von Neumann
Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power, Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their power… — Shigeru Ban

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