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The field of the Geologist’s inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the mighty revolutions and convulsions it has suffered. (Monuments Quotes)
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future. (Monuments Quotes)
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 (Monuments Quotes)
For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to which these sights were the monuments and the remembrances. For an instant I dared to shake off my chains, and look around me with a free and lofty spirit; but the iron had eaten into my flesh, and I sank again, trembling and hopeless, into my miserable self (Monuments Quotes)
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 (Monuments Quotes)
The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man’s best monuments have passed away (Monuments Quotes)
I started to draw buildings. I called them Proposed Colossal Monuments - they weren’t for real, not for actual building. It was more a critique of architecture. (Monuments Quotes)
History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever (Monuments Quotes)
Monuments of the safety with which errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it (Monuments Quotes)
There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one (Monuments Quotes)
The Taj, the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Cracao Basilica and Polish church are some monuments that hold a special place in my memory. (Monuments Quotes)
Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant (Monuments Quotes)
I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the immortal by giving birth, men--great men-- must build monuments and seek fame? (Monuments Quotes)
Old churches must not simply stand as monuments to the past but as spiritual grandparents that have invested in the future by passing on their life to others and releasing their offspring to form new congregations. Church planting needs to be given priority by old-line denominations (Monuments Quotes)
Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man’s greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked. (Monuments Quotes)
I especially remember that on All Souls Day, when so many people wanted new monuments for the graves, our whole family pitched in. I did the lettering on the stones, my brother did the carving, and my sisters put the finishing touches on them, the gold leaf and all that. (Monuments Quotes)
Art is very tricky because it’s what you do for yourself. It’s much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture. (Monuments Quotes)
Monuments Men’ is a movie... I don’t want to say for grown-ups, because some young folks could appreciate it, too. But if you’re expecting ‘Transformers,’ you’re going to be disappointed. (Monuments Quotes)
It’s very important that we keep these special, wild places. It defines the United States. Imagine our country without our national parks and our monuments. Here in California, imagine if you didn’t have in Southern Cal the Channel Islands or the great Highway 1, Big Sur up to Point Reyes up to the Redwood country. (Monuments Quotes)
She walked about disdainfully, unwilling to be enthusiastic over monuments of uncertain authorship or date. (Monuments Quotes)
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. (Monuments Quotes)
Art is very tricky because it’s what you do for yourself. It’s much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture (Monuments Quotes)
The question now at issue, whether the living species are connected with the extinct by a common bond of descent, will best be cleared up by devoting ourselves to the study of the actual state of the living world, and to those monuments of the past in which the relics of the animate creation of former ages are best preserved and least mutilated by the hand of time (Monuments Quotes)
Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great (Monuments Quotes)
The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought (Monuments Quotes)
The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history (Monuments Quotes)
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future (Monuments Quotes)
Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man’s greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked (Monuments Quotes)
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others (Monuments Quotes)
To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own (Monuments Quotes)