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- The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.
- Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences, to the exclusion…
- It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument, and to convey some knowledge of us to the most…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money.
- Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.
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- Those who will may raise monuments of marble to perpetuate the fame of heroes. Those who will may build memorial halls to… — Joshua Chamberlain
- Is there no pity sitting in the clouds That sees into the bottom of my grief? O sweet my mother, cast me… — William Shakespeare
- The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol. — Pamela Anderson
- All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity. — Baron d'Holbach
- Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
- The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument. — Arthur Guiterman
- Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen,… — William Morris Hunt