Quotes About Monument

In accepting the culture of consumerism, homes become a monument to personal style and taste, rather than places of service to others.

You said that I, who see more than you, am insane. I, who pushed the world so much further than you, am insane. I have dared more than you, I have pressed my unique seal so much deeper in the earth, where it will last longer than your dust. Your life to mine is a slug track on stone. A thin silver mucus track in and out of the letters on my monument.

the hole left by the moon's tearing-free and monument to her exile;

I would have preferred raised stones as markers," she said simply, and he understood that she was confiding a deeply private thing to him. "I imagined something upright, tall, with chiseled angels rising from it. I wanted a curved elaborate script to spell their names, a poem or a prayer carved into marble. I wanted a building built. A mausoleum.: She sighed. "I wanted something as magnificent as grief.

From the southern windows of the university that look out on Unter den Linden could be seen the small dome of the monument to the Unknown Soldier. I stood with Erich Doehr one afternoon in April of 1934 at a high window, looking down upon it and upon the briskly moving traffic and the pedestrians with which the mile-wide square teemed. Everywhere your eye moved it caught sight of a uniform.

The bitter apple and the bite in the apple. And the ragged rock in the restless waters, Waves wash over it, fogs conceal it; On a halcyon day it is merely a monument, In navigable weather it is always a seamark To lay a course by: but in the sombre season Or the sudden fury, is what it always was.

A statesman of the school of sound common sense, and a philanthropist of the most practical type, a patriot without a superior - his monument is a country preserved.

the Mount Rushmore KOA complex near

Con las piedras que con duro intento los críticos te lanzan, bien puedes erigirte un monumento.

Ezra Pound - idiosyncrasy on a monument.

I love to drive in the Black Hills of Wyoming and South Dakota with Mount Rushmore as the central stop.

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."~silent lotus

The wreckage of their personal life is a monument to the magnitude of their unconsciousness concerning the internal world of the self.

Toute phrase doit être en soi un monument bien coordonné, l'ensemble de tous ces monuments formant la ville qui est le Livre.

The passenger pigeon remained an emblem of natural bounty, but now it also represented the squandering of that bounty. In 1947 the conservationist Aldo Leopold dedicated a monument to the pigeon near the site of its greatest recorded nesting, at which hunters slaughtered 1.5 million birds. The plaque read: "This species became extinct through the avarice and thoughtlessness of man.

A monument's dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated.

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.

The earliest dated monument yet discovered in Tikal and all of the Maya lowlands, Stela 29, has a Long Count date of 8.12.14.13.15, which translates to A.D. 292.

The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is for the community of San Francisco. And the Brooklyn Bridge, which is one of the most magnificent bridges ever built, is also a monument to the community, you see.

The Taj Mahal is a monument to love in all cultures.

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

I like the word monument, because the word monument is a Latin word.

The UDC's monument campaigns were always supported by a narrative that Confederate veterans fought nobly and that defeat did not erase the justness of their cause.

My novel is about the history of the world, told from the point of view of a column of stone.