Monument 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

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

— Henry David Thoreau

Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave…

— Henry David Thoreau

As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to China, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

Many are concerned about the monuments of the West and the East -- to know who built them. For my part, I should like…

— Henry David Thoreau

Two thousand summers have imparted to the monuments of Grecian literature, as to her marbles, only a maturer golden and autumnal tint, for they…

— Henry David Thoreau

There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains itsmaxims. It has…

— Henry David Thoreau

The monument of death will outlast the memory of the dead. The Pyramids do not tell the tale which was confided to them; the…

— Henry David Thoreau

When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie buried under…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I viewed the station as a place, a terrain where I could put a new architecture in place. The station was, of course, an…

— Gae Aulenti

There's as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington…

— Morris Sheppard

The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institution may be…

— George Washington