Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal…

— Henry David Thoreau

“They strike one, above all, as giving no account of themselves in any terms already consecrated by human use; to this inarticulate state they…

— Henry James

“Take the stones people throw at you and use them to build a landmark.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

“Even water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our character.”

— Hugh B. Brown

“With stones, you can build walls to separate people or build bridges to unite them! Do the second thing in the name of ethics…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none that we…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Bad things should be written in the sand and Good things carved in stone so that they could be remembered.

— Vikrant Parsai

“I think human beings matter more than stones. (Signor Richetti)”

— Agatha Christie

“the highest monuments of human civilization accept its ironies and lend their eternity to its mischievous pranks.”

— Victor Hugo

“To hate and to blame would be so easy. But in the end, those who collect stones as a reminder of the past wrongdoings…

— Art Berg

“Take the Pyramids. Great blocks of useless masonry, put up to minister to the egoism of a despotic bloated king. Think of the sweated…

— Agatha Christie

We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson