Convinced Quote by Charles Lyell

Make you're choices, answer your calls. Live the moments and the monuments will take care of themselves, carved from after you've gone or shaped…

— Anonymous

Nobody likes to see that which they've invested in disappear from the face of the earth before they've even died. This is not cool.…

— Twyla Tharp

The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order may be…

— Helen Keller

The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it is familiar: hence the…

— William Buckland

“And what a city! The perfect geometric layout, the wide avenues and clean sidewalks, all the monuments bathes in celestial light. The contemps around…

— Thomas Mullen

“Maybe it’s time to realize that our greatest contributions are not the monuments that we construct, but the lives that we change because we…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon.

— Henry David Thoreau

We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay, coal, marl,…

— Erasmus Darwin

All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,--is the desire to do away this…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The New World's purpose was to be The Old World's Eden - a place of dreams to wipe clean the mistakes and sins of…

— Stewart Stafford

“We know we are a species obsessed with itself and its own past and origins. We know we are capable of removing from the…

— Kathleen Jamie

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of…

— Marguerite Gardiner