Monuments Quotes

150 quotes by 136 authors

The search for truth is, as it always has been, the noblest expression of the human spirit. Man's insatiable desire for knowledge about himself, about… — Raymond B. Fosdick
Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let… — Thomas Browne
To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the… — Thomas Browne
Let patriotism have its high days and freedom its monuments, and let the triumphs of navigators and generals be annually observed; but surely, beyond all… — George Horace Lorimer
For a hundred years, modern painters, stubbornly and in the face of incessant hostility, have moved, step by step, leaving superb monuments by the wayside,… — Robert Motherwell
We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay, coal, marl, sand,… — Erasmus Darwin
Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than those… — John Muir
What the masses want are monuments. — Jean Drapeau
Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved. — Thomas Fuller
I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen… — Tommy Douglas
It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled… — Dick Durbin
Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil. — Kin Hubbard
To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in… — Philip Johnson
Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the… — Maya Lin
I'm thrilled of the acceptance I get abroad. The people are so hearty, warm and grateful and I feel privileged having seen so many countries… — Daniel Radcliffe
If you go to Gettysburg and take the time, maybe take a tour, maybe just drive around, read some of the monuments, read some of… — Jeff Shaara
They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and… — Hugh Sidey
I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are… — Nicholas Sparks
When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors… — Mark Twain

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