Ambition 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

When you're dealing with something sensitive, which is about culture, and its effect on a generation, you don't want any stones not to be…

— Steve Stoute

“There is no government in the world that fully respects nomads or other ‘Stone Age’ people. At best they are ignored; more usually there…

— Gabrielle Palmer

Devolution will kill Nationalism stone dead

— George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

“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

“Subtle and coy, the cemento at Maalouf's did not speak of war, or frontiers, and the spaces they narrowed, but, rather, grandeur. The tiles…

— Anthony Shadid

“Americans have dissipated their racial energy in an orgy of stone-breaking. In their few years they have broken more stones than did centuries of…

— Nathanael West

I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere…

— Lech Walesa

through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones.

— William Carlos Williams

“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

“We have adopted European costume, European ways of living, even the European vices of drinking and gambling, but none of their virtues. This must…

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

Cultures that may seem as durable as stone can break like glass, leaving all the things that held them together unattended. I believe that…

— Anthony Shadid