Monuments Quotes

150 quotes by 136 authors

If the Bible is not the Word of God and inspired, the whole of Christendom for 1800 years has been under an immense delusion; half… — J C Ryle
Cities are beautiful because they are created slowly; they are made by time. A city is born from a tangle of monuments and infrastructures ,… — Renzo Piano
Excuses are tools of the incompetent used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness — Barack Obama
Yeah! I went to the set of Monuments Men. — Don Cheadle
The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history. — Lew Wallace
If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any… — Leon Trotsky
You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to… — Edward Everett Hale
I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all… — Bruce Babbitt
It is probable that a greater number of monuments of the skill and industry of man will, in the course of the ages, be collected… — Charles Lyell
An architect does not need to spend his whole career making monuments for rich people. — Shigeru Ban
The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to… — Zygmunt Bauman
If the finding of Coines, Medals, Urnes, and other Monuments of famous Persons, or Towns, or Utensils, be admitted for unquestionable Proofs, that such Persons… — Robert Hooke
Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave money… — Henry David Thoreau
People are quick to make monuments of anything they live long enough to control. — Hilton Als
It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what I preferred instead.… — Julian Barnes
Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record… — Bruce Babbitt
Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked. — Vicente Fox
Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs… — Lee H. Hamilton
I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all part… — Chaske Spencer
His icebergs are strange monuments with a symbol embodied in their form and their colours. They do not freeze you when you look at them,… — J D Salinger

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