Quotes about Monument

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. Votes: 4

If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government. Votes: 4

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them. Votes: 4

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere. Votes: 4

I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project. Votes: 4

It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.' Votes: 4

Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunities. His discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is his monument. Votes: 4

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe. Votes: 3

Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man. Votes: 3

Ray Bannister started to build the guillotine the day Jerry Renault returned to Monument. Votes: 3

It's very hard to go to Monument Valley and not think of John Ford's films. Votes: 3

Many CastlesOn My Travels i have been A guest in Many castles Yet the Monument Which i Find Divine Is the oasis Where the heart And the silence Intertwine. Votes: 3

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 Monument tied to its tail. Votes: 3

It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended upon Washington. Hundreds of thousands of protesters trekked through the heat, stretching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial. Votes: 3

In all my shows, I'm not interested in the iconic shots of the Capitol and the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. I'm always interested in trying to get the culture of the place - trying to get it right. Votes: 3

There, in the middle of this mall is the Washington Monument, 555 feet high. But if we put a one in front of that 555 feet, we get 1555, the year that our first fathers landed on the shores of Jamestown, Virginia as slaves. Votes: 3

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments. Votes: 2

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist. Votes: 2

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist. Votes: 2

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one. Votes: 2

This monument is going to be built as a symbol. Votes: 2

I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist. Votes: 2

Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat. Votes: 2

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.... Votes: 2

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience. Votes: 2

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved. Votes: 2

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil. Votes: 2

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. Votes: 2

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent. Votes: 2

The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol. Votes: 2

My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never. Votes: 2

If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory. Votes: 2

Because I'm so big, you have to look at me. I think of myself as a monument. But sometimes I like to feel small. Votes: 2

Louis B. Mayer came out west with $28.00, a box camera and an old lion. He built a monument to himself -- the Bank of America. Votes: 2

At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language. Votes: 2

The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one. Votes: 2

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race. Votes: 2

There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one. Votes: 2

To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our belief. Votes: 2

You see, greatness for a state doesn't require some huge monument for all to see. It is not a journey to a particular destination - but a commitment to follow a course of constant and never-ending improvement. Votes: 2

Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that. Votes: 2

A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them. Votes: 2

You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest, Where man can boast that he has trod On him that was "the scourge of God." Votes: 2

But he said Blanket Hill should be a national monument. And so we came out of his chambers feeling, though while we had lost to the powers of darkness, we had at least shown one Federal Judge what the right path would have been. Votes: 2

Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every emotion which can be felt. Art reaches back into the babyhood of time, and is man's only lasting monument. Votes: 2

Our original title, you know, was `The Man in Lincoln`s Nose`. Couldn`t use it, though. They also wouldn`t let us shoot people on Mount Rushmore. Can`t deface a national monument. And it`s a pity, too, because I had a wonde. Votes: 2

But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose. Votes: 2

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art. Votes: 2

We object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which it is too often done. Let sin have its monument, but let it be a heap of stones cast by the hands of execration - not a mausoleum erected by the hands of affection. Votes: 2

I always wish the hotels were like they are in movies and TV shows, where if you're in Paris, right outside your window is the Eiffel Tower. In Egypt, the pyramids are right there. In the movies, every hotel has a monument right outside your window. My hotel rooms overlook the garbage dumpster in the back alley. Votes: 2

I grew up, as I joke around, in the 'People's Republic of Charlestown' in the city of Boston. And I was blessed to be raised right there on Monument Square in Charlestown, and every morning I'd hop on the bus and go on a 45-minute ride out to the suburbs in Brooklyn for elementary school. And I got to have my seat, really, in both worlds. Votes: 2

But monument themselves memorials need. Votes: 0

Live a life as a monument to your soul. Votes: 0

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. Votes: 0

I have completed a monument more lasting than brass. Votes: 0

Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism Votes: 0

Great, I thought. We just blowtorched a national monument. Votes: 0

Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti. Votes: 0

I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass. Votes: 0

There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument Votes: 0

Here was a monument, in fieldstone, to the art of family life. Votes: 0

My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument. Votes: 0

Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality. Votes: 0

The redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down--vast monument of strength. Votes: 0

If I have a monument in this world, it is my son. Votes: 0

A tomb is a monument placed on the limits of two worlds. Votes: 0

With all the stones being thrown against me you could build a monument! Votes: 0

Ultimately, the roast turkey must be regarded as a monument to Boomer's love. Votes: 0

The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument. Votes: 0

Mama, don't forget to put a little monument on my tomb when I'm dead Votes: 0

Take the stones people throw at you, and use them to build a monument Votes: 0

a young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief Votes: 0

Lets build a monument for the veto. Lets build a monument for impotence and incapacity. Votes: 0

Europe is... a monument to the vanity of individuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure. Votes: 0

The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument. Votes: 0

Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his monument. Votes: 0

Friday, August 04, 2006 MONUMENT posted 8:31 AM Silver nitrous girls pointed into occult winds of porn and destiny. Votes: 0

The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also. Votes: 0

MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated. Votes: 0

The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man. Votes: 0

Here were decent godless people; Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls. Votes: 0

One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon. Votes: 0

Every kindness we have done is a monument built in our name in the heart of God! Votes: 0

The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it. Votes: 0

The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two. Votes: 0

Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it. Votes: 0

No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith. Votes: 0

'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it. Votes: 0

At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence. Votes: 0

You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument. Votes: 0

I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past. Votes: 0

I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal. Votes: 0

James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end. Votes: 0

Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids. Votes: 0

After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one. Votes: 0

Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness. Votes: 0

Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands; he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty. Votes: 0

I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery. Votes: 0

But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye. Votes: 0

The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach. Votes: 0

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery. Votes: 0

The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation. Votes: 0

A great city with water barriers and no bridges is like a skyscraper with no elevators. Bridges are a monument to progress. Votes: 0

Sculpture may be almost anything: a monument, a statue, an old coin, a bas-relief, a portrait bust, a lifelong struggle against heavy odds. Votes: 0

If I have done any honorable exploit, that is my monument; but if I have done none, all your statues will signify nothing. Votes: 0

Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument. Votes: 0

The graphic emphasis placed on those first lines is rather hard to square with the proposition that the monument expresses no particular religious preference. Votes: 0

Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity. Votes: 0

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one; that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of men. Votes: 0

Another well-known Paris landmark is the Arc de Triomphe, a moving monument to the many brave women and men who have died trying to visit it. Votes: 0

Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin. Votes: 0

The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his compassion. Votes: 0

When I am dead, I will not hurt anymore, will it Mama?...When I am dead, build me a little monument of stones in the woods. Votes: 0

She is so naked and singular. She is the sum of yourself and your dream. Climb her like a monument, step after step. She is solid. Votes: 0

A broken heart is a monument to a love that will never die; fulfillment is a monument to a love that is already on its deathbed. Votes: 0

If you know a lonely tree, go and visit it even if it takes miles to walk there! Because lonely tree is a great monument of strength! Votes: 0

A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor. Votes: 0

Gypsy [Rose Lee ] was a masterful storyteller, and her memoir and by extension, the musical weren't only Gypsy's monument; they were also her chance for monumental revisionism. Votes: 0

The monument I want after I am dead is a monument with two legs going around the world-a saved sinner telling about the salvation of Jesus Christ. Votes: 0

To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday's hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can't build a monument to past problems and fail forward. Votes: 0

The monument of death will outlast the memory of the dead. The Pyramids do not tell the tale which was confided to them; the living fact commemorates itself. Votes: 0

I am Providence, and Providence is myself together, indissolubly as one, we stand thro' the ages; a fixt monument set aeternally in the shadow of Durfee's ice-clad peak! Votes: 0

We need to build a beautiful granite and bronze monument in our nation's capital to honor American heroes, unsung American heroes. And those unsung American heroes are the rich. Votes: 0

An excellent monument might be erected to the Unknown Stockholder. It might take the form of a solid stone ark of faith apparently floating in a pool of water. Votes: 0

[Chicago]: This vicious, stinking zoo, this mean-grinning, mace-smelling boneyard of a city: an elegant rockpile of a monument to everything cruel and stupid and corrupt in the human spirit. Votes: 0

Often the crowd does not recognize a leader until he has gone, and then they build a monument for him with the stones they threw at him in life. Votes: 0

The city of Hiroshima stands as more than a monument to massive death and destruction. It stands as a living testament to the necessity for progress toward nuclear disarmament. Votes: 0

The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow. Votes: 0

The hunter died when he achieved supremacy. Perhaps the death of the hunter will be the long monument to interglacial man. We denied a future to our sucessor beings. Votes: 0

Bury my body and don't build any monument. Keep my hands out so the people know the one who won the world had nothing in hand when he died. Votes: 0

Someone who expresses a view that is contrary to the view of the overwhelming majority should be allowed to stand undisturbed as a monument to our commitment to free speech. Votes: 0

A film star is a kind of public monument, and everyone's staring at them, and they've kind of got railings around them, and they're rather miserable most of the time. Votes: 0

I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars. Votes: 0

The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between the Crees and the Beavers. Votes: 0

When you hear of a notorious sinner, instead of thinking you do well to be angry, beg of Jesus Christ to convert, and make him a monument of his free grace. Votes: 0

His true monument lies not on the shelves of libraries, but in the thoughts of men, and in the history of more than one science.{Gibbs's obituary for scientist Rudolf Clausius} Votes: 0

In our own case, we don't consider the loss of a monastery or a monument the end of our entire way of life. If one monastery is destroyed, sometimes it happens. Votes: 0

Come let us mock at the great That had such burdens on the mind And toiled so hard and late To leave some monument behind, Nor thought of the leveling wind. Votes: 0

The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: 'If you seek his monument, look around.' Votes: 0

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is a greater miracle than all the sticks turned to snakes or the parting of the waters. Votes: 0

Stamps from Afghanistan are hilarious. You can tell when the revolutions are because suddenly they stop having pictures of the mullahs and the independence monument and they start having fish on them. Votes: 0

The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy. The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and acts survive and leave an indelible stamp upon his race. Votes: 0

Let him who looks for a monument to Washington look around the United States. Your freedom, your independence, your national power, your prosperity, and your prodigious growth are a monument to him. Votes: 0

I have created nothing really beautiful, really lasting, but if I can inspire one of these youngsters to develop the talent I know they possess, then my monument will be in their work. Votes: 0

nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of available light and set to the movement of possible music Votes: 0

We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone. Votes: 0

Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same time a tomb, in which, voluntarily, one slowly inters oneself. Votes: 0

If so men's memories not a monument be, None shalt thou have. Warm hearts, and not cold stone, Must mark thy grave, or thou shalt lie, unknown. Marbles keep not themselves; how then, keep thee? Votes: 0

I hate it when people let me down, when things are temporary. I think that's why I want to be an architect." "To build something permanent," I said. "A monument to last a thousand years. Votes: 0

The weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic weather or hoist himself aloft to inscribe his name on a virgin monument. Votes: 0