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  • What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.

    Money   Today   Credit  
  • 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.

    Science   Past   Issues  
    Sir Charles Lyell (1863). “The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man: With Remarks on Theories of the Origin of Species by Variation”, p.470
  • I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.

    Memories   Iron   Three  
  • Here were decent godless people; Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.

    Golf   People   Balls  
    "Choruses from the Rock" pt. 3 (1934)
  • 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.

    Pyramids   Deeds   Stones  
  • Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the monuments and the inscriptions. Scarcely a word of true poetry anywhere.

    Benjamin Jowett (1899). “Letters of Benjamin Jowett”
  • After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

    Life   Witty   Clever  
  • 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

    Grief   Yellow   Green  
    'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. [108]
  • The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.

  • I hate it when people let me down, when things are temporary. I think that's why I want to be an architect." "To build something permanent," I said. "A monument to last a thousand years.

    Hate   Thinking   Years  
  • 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.

    Brave   Use   Way  
  • 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 (1885). “The Boy's Book of Battle-lyrics: A Collection of Verses Illustrating Some Notable Events in the History of the United States of America, from the Colonial Period to the Outbreak of the Sectional War”
  • 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.

  • The bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow.

    Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam
  • An architect does not need to spend his whole career making monuments for rich people.

    Careers   People   Doe  
  • A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves lest while we are building ideal monuments of Renown and Bliss here we neglect to have our names enrolled in the Annals of Heaven.

    Eye   Names   Heaven  
    James Madison (1962). “Papers”
  • Most monuments are not something you're going to keep me out of. And I go to a lot of monuments.

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  • Everywhere we are told that our human resources are all to be used, that our civilization itself means the uses of everything it has - the inventions, the histories, every scrap of fact. But there is one kind of knowledge - infinitely precious, time-resistant more than monuments, here to be passed between the generations in any way it may be: never to be used. And that is poetry.

    "The Life of Poetry". Book by Muriel Rukeyser. Chapter One: "The Fear of Poetry", 1949.
  • Often the crowd does not recognize a leader until he has gone, and then they build a monument for him with the stones they threw at him in life.

    J. Oswald Sanders (2007). “Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer”, p.122, Moody Publishers
  • His icebergs are strange monuments with a symbol embodied in their form and their colours. They do not freeze you when you look at them, for they are not of ice, they are what Lawren Harris feels and thinks after he has contemplated them

  • Monuments may be builded to express the affection or pride of friends, or to display their wealth, but they are only valuable for the characters which they perpetuate.

    Character   Pride   May  
    Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 1”, p.593, Best Books on
  • Only when the true ends of society have nothing to do with the sublime does "culture" become necessary as a veneer to cover over the void. Culture can at best appreciate the monuments of earlier faith; it cannot produce them.

    "Giants and Dwarfs". Book by Allan Bloom. Chapter: "Commerce and Culture," p. 280, 1990.
  • Actually there were many officers' clubs that Yossarian had not helped build, but he was proudest of the one on Pianosa. It was a sturdy and complex monument to his powers of determination. Yossarian never went there to help until it was finished; then he went there often, so pleased was he with the large , fine, rambling shingled building. It was a truly splendid building, and Yossarian throbbed with a mighty sense of accomplishment each time he gazed at it and reflected that none of the work that had gone into it was his.

    Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.36, Simon and Schuster
  • When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.

    Giving   Alive   Charity  
    Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.159
  • A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.

    Ignorance   Tree   Lost  
  • The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've died. They're like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor the pharaohs. Only instead of being made of stone, they're made out of the memories people have of you.

    R. J. Palacio (2017). “The Wonder eOmni Collection: Wonder, Auggie & Me, 365 Days of Wonder”, p.78, Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • In the course of this short tour, I became convinced that we must turn to the New World if we wish to see in perfection the oldest monuments of the earth's history, so far at least as relates to its earliest inhabitants.

    Sir Charles Lyell (1845). “Travels in North America, in the Years 1841-2: With Geological Observations on the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia”, p.15
  • These ... tables (values of trignometric functions), constructed by means of new techniques based principally on the calculus of differences, are one of the most beautiful monuments ever erected to science.

  • Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental.

    Cities   Towers   Culture  
    Michael Mandelbaum (2004). “The Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-First Century”, p.1, PublicAffairs
  • I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.

    Past   Comfort   Monument  
    Thomas Jefferson (1900). “The Jefferson Papers [1770-1826”
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