Monuments Quotes

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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. — John Prebble
We love the old saints, missionaries, martyrs, and reformers. Our Luthers, Bunyans, Wesleys and Asburys, etc... We will write their biographies, reverence their memories, frame… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit this monumental act… — Ada Louise Huxtable
How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments! As though any havoc of… — Osbert Sitwell
Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the monuments and the inscriptions. Scarcely… — Benjamin Jowett
As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all… — Karl Philipp Moritz
Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing. — Steven Grayhm
I think Bowe Bergdahl, if he deserted, is a hero - I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown deserters. — Bill Ayers
After independence was gained, one of the first Acts passed by the Greek government was for the protection and preservation of national monuments. — Melina Mercouri
It's time to stop building the shopping malls, the prisons, the stadiums and other tributes to all of our collective failures. It is time that… — Majora Carter
The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to… — Elizabeth Gilbert
The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've died. They're like… — R. J. Palacio
Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.... — Joseph Joubert
Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able to tell that… — Elizabeth Kolbert
Everyone asks about how I'll feel about the tattoos and scars in thirty years. I always say: "I'll like them." I've always loved damaged monuments,… — Emma Forrest
That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations-at their song, The salmon-falls,… — William Butler Yeats
A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves lest while we are building ideal monuments of Renown and Bliss here we neglect to have our… — James Madison
It seems to me that it had no other rationale than to show that we are not simply the country of entertainers, but also that… — Gustave Eiffel
A measure of victory has been won, and honors have been bestowed in token thereof. But honours fade or are forgotten, and monuments crumble into… — Elizabeth Kenny
Saving Italy is an astonishing account of a little known American effort to save Italyâ€™s vast store of priceless monuments and art during World War… — Tom Brokaw

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