Monuments Quotes

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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
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
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
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
The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death. — Edmund Spenser
Even as water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our character. — Hugh B. Brown
Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of… — John Lothrop Motley
What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the… — William James
London, black as crows and noisy as ducks, prudish with all the vices in evidence, everlastingly drunk, in spite of ridiculous laws about drunkenness, immense,… — Paul Verlaine
The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought. — Henry Waxman
Monuments are for the living, not the dead. — Frank Wedekind
Moreover, the sciences are monuments devoted to the public good; each citizen owes to them a tribute proportional to his talents. While the great men,… — Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future — Robert Smithson
Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments. — Antonio Gaudi
When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread in Europe--we discover… — Victor Cousin
The flood will lift the ghosts from the Hollywood lawn cemetery and they will disappear like ether in the now dead air. All the names… — Robert Montgomery
If humans died in a healthy culture, they would not lock out the earth in metal coffins and carve their names on stone monuments, but… — William Irwin Thompson
There is no law by which to determine the superiority of nations; hence the vanity of the claim, and the idleness of disputes about it.… — Lew Wallace
There is nothing antithetical in American history, culture, or traditions to teamwork. Teams were important in America's history - wagon trains conquered the West, men… — Lester Thurow

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