Monument famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments.
-- Antonio Gaudi -
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
-- Cato the Elder -
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
-- Clarence Darrow -
My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
Monuments are for the living, not the dead.
-- Frank Wedekind -
I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass.
-- Horace -
I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments.
-- Jean-Andre Deluc -
If you go to Gettysburg and take the time, maybe take a tour, maybe just drive around, read some of the monuments, read some of the plaques, you will come away changed.
-- Jeff Shaara -
Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive.
-- Joyce Carol Oates -
The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.
-- Madeleine de Scudery -
Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.
-- Maria Edgeworth -
I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.
-- Paul Harvey -
But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye.
-- Thomas Dunn English -
Lets build a monument for the veto. Lets build a monument for impotence and incapacity.
-- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto -
Most monuments are not something you're going to keep me out of. And I go to a lot of monuments.
-- Rob Huebel -
If I have done any honorable exploit, that is my monument; but if I have done none, all your statues will signify nothing.
-- Agesilaus II -
The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.
-- Roger Zelazny -
Here was a monument, in fieldstone, to the art of family life.
-- Judith Thurman
