37 Monuments Quotes for You to Enjoy

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. Pericles

You Others Monuments Woven Leave Stone Behind Engraved Lives

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments. Nathaniel Hawthorne

Mountains Earth Monuments

We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames. Nancy Gibbs

Justice Fruit Sometimes Fire Before Revolution Down Rage Sets Birth Soldiers Tyrants Monuments Rises Crowds Student Like Know Looks Arms Himself Surge Tank Line Link Seller Flames Human Maybe Stands Chain Monks Pull

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved. Thomas Fuller

Memory Mind Preserved Monuments House Wherein Thereof Treasure Kept

The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought. Henry Waxman

Veterans Day History Respect Veterans Sanctity Pay Military Our Those Monuments Importance Institutions Who Fought Utmost Utmost Importance Preserve

Culture survives in smaller spaces - not in the history books that erect monuments to the nation's grand history but in cafes and cinema houses, village squares, and half-forgotten libraries. Amitava Kumar

History Culture Cinema Nation Books Monuments Libraries Smaller Houses Erect History Books Squares Survives Spaces Grand Village

It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments. Dick Durbin

Veterans Pay Our Monuments Rank Parades Unacceptable More Disability Disabled Bottom Than Owe List Illinois Speeches

Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Frances Beinecke

Ocean National Past Every Preserving President Waters Monument Monuments Hawaiian Islands George Years George W George W. Bush Square Square Miles Northwestern In The Past Grand Grand Canyon Canyon Bush Roosevelt Creating Miles Nearly Teddy Teddy Roosevelt

Monuments are for the living, not the dead. Frank Wedekind

Living Monuments Dead

When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Monuments Smashing Come Always Handy Save

Delhi is fabulous - the roads, greenery, the monuments! Aditi Rao Hydari

Monuments Fabulous Delhi Roads

I've always had strong ties with Delhi, and I do stay in touch with my friends and periodically visit the capital. I started my schooling at St. Columbus High School before I went to Mayo College. Delhi, for me, is a historical city with all its beautiful monuments. Ajay Mehta

Beautiful Me Strong School College Before Monuments Visit High City Stay High School Touch Delhi Had Columbus Schooling Ties Always Historical Friends Mayo Capital Started

Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years ago doing people. I couldn't get interested in it. And I did hundreds of photographs of details of the monuments as sculpture. Ben Shahn

I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all over this country saying public supports restoration in restoration of the Everglades, protection of the parks and the creation of monuments. Bruce Babbitt

Saying People Protection Will Country Creation Think Back Those Monuments Restoration Having Parks Step Over Supports Read Opinion Opinion Polls Advocate Front Front Page Polls Public Newspapers Page Public Opinion Public Opinion Polls Who Everglades

Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt. Bruce Babbitt

You Protection Think President Monuments Record No-One Know Protecting Maybe Establish Land Century Roosevelt Working Second Teddy Teddy Roosevelt

Nothing is worse than a Yankee telling a Southerner that his monuments don't matter. Corey Stewart

Matter Nothing Worse Monuments Telling Yankee His Than Southerner

It is difficult to be famous and that successful where you can't even walk down the street without people chasing you, and having people build monuments to you and worshiping you - all that stuff - but I never took that to a place where I believed it. I saw it as being temporary and a phase. David Cassidy

You People Walk Chasing Build Down Difficult Took Saw Monuments Temporary Having Never Stuff Without Being Famous Where Place Successful Even Believed Street Phase

'Monuments Men' is not a docudrama. It's not a documentary. Grant Heslov

Men Monuments Documentary

They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and eventually to find their way out of the great, gray federal wilderness. Hugh Sidey

We must ask ourselves: Are we a confident, forward-looking nation that builds monuments - like DACA - to hope and determination? Or are we a nation that is turned inward, lauding monuments to intolerance and division? Jay Inslee

Hope Determination Nation Intolerance Monuments Ourselves Must Division Like Inward Builds Confident Turned Ask Forward-Looking

Being able to invest in my community and invest in areas that people might not really know about and monuments that people might not know about in their own backyard is a great opportunity. Jordan Fisher

Great People Opportunity Own Community Monuments Backyard Able About Great Opportunity Area Invest Know Being Might Really

It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what I preferred instead. Not power-ridden monuments, but individual buildings which tell a quieter story: the artist's studio, or the Belle Epoque house built by a forgotten financier for a just-remembered courtesan. Julian Barnes

Me Took Monuments Tell Financier Admire Some About Paris Individual Studio Clear Head Instead House Buildings Built Years Quieter Artist Forgotten Wanted Story Which Preferred Notice Belle

Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving. Lee H. Hamilton

Needs Democracy Sometimes Preserved Our Monuments Always Refining Amending Improving Process Product Deeds Defending

Why should the Eisenhower memorial be over twice the size of WWII Memorial? Why should it be so vast as to comfortably house two Lincoln Memorials, two Washington Monuments, and two Jefferson Memorials - all six at once? Leon Krier

Once Monuments Memorial Memorials Vast Over House Comfortably WWII Lincoln Six Size Eisenhower Should Jefferson Washington Twice Why Two

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