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Tag Name "Monument" (229)

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Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the monuments and the inscriptions. Scarcely a word of true poetry anywhere.
Benjamin Jowett
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Being a painter myself... whenever I could dispense with architectural precision, I indulged in the picturesque, in which case I sacrificed a few details when necessary in favor of an imposing effect that would give a monument its real character and also preserve the poetic charm that surrounds it.
Charles Negre
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Let our object be - our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. And by the blessing of God, may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument - not of oppression and terror, but of wisdom, of Peace, and of Liberty, upon which the world may gaze with admiration forever.
Daniel Webster
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The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.
David Hume
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I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery.
Haile Gerima
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Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.
Steven Grayhm
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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.
Dave Barry
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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Our public monuments are memorials to the Enlightenment.
Mason Cooley
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I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.
Nicholas Sparks
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We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay, coal, marl, sand, and iron, which are incumbent on them, are MONUMENTS OF THE PAST FELICITY OF ORGANIZED NATURE!
Erasmus Darwin
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Man's drive for self-expression, which over the centuries has built his monuments, does not stay within its bounds the creations which yesterday were detested and the obscene become the classics of today.
Mathew Tobriner
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With all the stones being thrown against me you could build a monument!
Jose Mourinho
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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.
Edward Kennedy
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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.
John C. Maxwell
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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.
Lafcadio Hearn
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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.
Samuel West
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Another hundred years may pass before we understand the true significance of Apollo. Lunar exploration was not the equivalent of an American pyramid, some idle monument to technology, but more of a Rosetta stone, a key to unlocking dreams as yet undreamed.
Gene Cernan
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In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried the great thieves in marble and gold. Under the loftiest monuments sleeps the dust of murder.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.
George S. Patton
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The rationalism of the creative minds was tempered by abundant fantasies, and the supreme beauty of the monuments was probably spoiled by the circumambient vanities and ugliness in a few cases the Greeks came as close to perfection as it was possible to do, yet they were human and imperfect.
George Sarton
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We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they're gone.
Richard Paul Evans
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The child as a monument to the passion of two people the will to oneness in two.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A wise nation preserves its records, gathers up its muniments, decorates the tombes of its illustrious dead, repairs its greatest structures and fosters national pride and love of country, by perpetual references to the sacrifices and glories of the past.
Joseph Howe
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