Firsts Quote by Edgar Lee Masters

Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the corner - stone is laid and memorial tablets…

— Edgar Lee Masters

Those who will may raise monuments of marble to perpetuate the fame of heroes. Those who will may build memorial halls to remind those…

— Joshua Chamberlain

“The Scriptures talk a lot about the “head of the corner” or the “chief cornerstone.” God uses the illustration of cornerstones to draw our…

— Mark Cahill

So, from generation to generation, the spiritual church is rising upwards toward its perfection; and, though one after another the workmen pass away, the…

— William Mackergo Taylor

The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

An excellent monument might be erected to the Unknown Stockholder. It might take the form of a solid stone ark of faith apparently floating…

— Felix Riesenberg

“I often wonder why, when governments and communities erect monuments to heroes, they forget to erect one to the honour of the Pioneer.”

— Frederick de la Fosse

When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants…

— John Ruskin

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition…

— Abraham Lincoln

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one; that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of…

— William Hazlitt

In our society, in our culture, we love to build people up. We love to build the pedestal, and we love to put 'em…

— Rush Limbaugh

Whether you do your work with notes or without them, do it courageously, earnestly, with devotion; with a glad sense of the greatness of…

— Richard Salter Storrs