Monument Quotes

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

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.

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.

The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.

But monument themselves memorials need.

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

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.

Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.

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.

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.

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.

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

Monuments obtain their full worth through their complete use.

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

What the masses want are monuments.

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is more of a miracle than any sticks turned to snakes, or the parting of waters!

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Relationships are monuments build on lies

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?

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

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.

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

Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

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

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

Our public monuments are memorials to the Enlightenment.

Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep.

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.

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

We're doing everything in our power to make sure all the names are spelled correctly. We have up to eight weeks before they deliver the monument from Vermont to make any corrections in the spellings.

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

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.

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.

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.

Yeah! I went to the set of Monuments Men.

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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