Monuments Quotes

150 quotes by 136 authors

I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that… — William James
With monuments as with men, position means everything. — Honore de Balzac
The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall, nations perish, civilizations grow old… — Clarence Day
We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they're gone. — Richard Paul Evans
Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to… — William S. Burroughs
When I remember that dizzy summer, that dull, stupid, lovely, dire summer, it seems that in those days I ate my lunches, smelled another's skin,… — Michael Chabon
Until that moment, I hadnâ€™t realized that I embarked on the project of touring historic sites and monuments having to do with the assassinations of… — Sarah Vowell
In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers; they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Relationships are monuments build on lies — Dan Savage
Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive. — Joyce Carol Oates
The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power. — Francis Bacon
Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your… — Maya Angelou
We tend to think of memories as monuments we once forged and may find intact beneath the weedy growth of years. But, in a real… — Diane Ackerman
People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon. — Vanna Bonta
Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word, once spoken, lingers forever; to… — Margaret George
For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to which these sights were the monuments and the remembrances. For an… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst,… — James A. Baldwin
Somehow the pain, the losses, the hurt, the bad, God is able to transform these into something they could have never been, icons and monuments… — William P. Young
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. — Pericles
When smashing monuments, save the pedestals-they always come in handy. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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