Quotes About Monument

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

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

Th' dead ar-re always pop'lar. I knowed a society wanst to vote a monyment to a man an' refuse to help his fam'ly, all in wan night.

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.

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

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

Johnny Cashs' face belongs on Mount Rushmore.

It was a small church. No large cathedral towers overshadowed the purpose of the house of worship. It was a monument to faith rather than a monument to man's triumph over nature.

Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief

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.

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 that monument and we say this is one nation under God.

Come let us mock at the greatThat had such burdens on the mindAnd toiled so hard and lateTo leave some monument behind,Nor thought of the leveling wind.

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

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.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not e

The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

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

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.

I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting a monument does not require an expenditure of so much strength.

Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism

Whatever our monument might be, we want it to be public, even if the public is one friend.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient

If you're going to come to D.C. and it's your first time here, see the view from the bottom of the Washington Monument, looking out over the Reflecting Pool to the Lincoln. And see the Jefferson Memorial. It's so beautiful and such a part of the history of the city.

Washington and Lincoln mean as much to us as any two men could mean to a civilization, a people, and age, but I told Mr. Coolidge when he dedicated this monument that this rock is being carved with a monument that will outlive our government.