Monuments Quotes

“It is certainly true that ‘actions speak louder than words,’ but words become as monuments to thoughts.”
― Anton Szandor LaVey, The Satanic Bible

“The Roman Road is the greatest monument ever raised to human liberty by a noble and generous people. It runs across mountain, marsh and river. It is built broad, straight and firm. It joins city with city and nation with nation. It is tens of thousands of miles long, and always thronged with grateful travellers. And while the Great Pyramid, a few hundred feet high and wide, awes sight-seers to silence—though it is only the rifled tomb of an ignoble corpse and a monument of oppression and misery, so that no doubt in viewing it you may still seem to hear the crack of the taskmaster's whip and the squeals and groans of the poor workmen struggling to set a huge block of stone into position——”
― Robert Graves, Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina

“She walked about disdainfully, unwilling to be enthusiastic over monuments of uncertain authorship or date.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“God calls big trees out of small seeds, so He prepares great monuments out of small minds. He will definitely call those wonderful things he put in you out of you. When He begins, do not resist!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“A positive mind is the sharpest tool that brings down the monuments of failure. The quickest way to fail is to murder your mind with negative thoughts!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“Knowledge can never imprison you, but you can be captive to your ignorance.”
― A.E. Samaan

“Remarkable, if for nothing else, because of this, that all of those men and women who stayed for any reason left behind them some monument, some structure of marble and brick and stone that still stands; so that even when the gas lamps went out and the planes came in and the office buildings crowded the blocks of Canal Street, something irreducible of beauty and romance remained; not in every street perhaps, but in so many that the landscape is for me the landscape of those times always, and walking now in the starlit streets of the Quarter or the Garden District I am in those times again. I suppose that is the nature of the monument. Be it a small house or a mansion of Corinthian columns and wrought-iron lace. The monument does not say that this or that man walked here. No, that what he felt in one time in one spot continues. The moon that rose over New Orleans then still rises. As long as the monuments stand, it still rises. The feeling, at least here...and there...it remains the same.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“Who chose burial monuments? Were the wishes of the deceased taken into consideration? It was a subject I'd never considered before.”
― Susan Hubbard, The Society of S

“I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments.”
― J. A. de (Jean André) Luc

“One of the first things that greet your eye in Rouen is the beautiful monument erected to Flaubert in the very wall of the Museum, which is Rouen's holy of holies. Just across from him, in front of a dense cluster of sycamores, is his friend and pupil Guy de Maupassant. The Maupassant statue at rouen is, I think, quite as impressive as that in Paris—perhaps more so—and it is even more happily placed. Besides there is something very fitting in the idea of commemorating together the master and the pupil who surpassed him.”
― Willa Cather, Willa Cather in Europe: Her Own Story of the First Journey

“ON THE BANKS of every great river you’ll find a monument to excess.”
Kanai recalled the list of examples Nirmal had provided to prove this: the opera house of Manaus, the temple of Karnak, the ten thousand pagodas of Pagan. In the years since, he had visited many of those places, and it made him laugh to think his uncle had insisted that Canning too had a place on that list: “The mighty Matla’s monument is Port Canning.”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide

“People create all kind of fancy watches and clocks, never stopping to realize they're building monuments to the greatest of all thieves.”
― K. Martin Beckner, A Million Doorways

“Sentence every immoral thought for detention and prosecution. Immorality is a powerful gadget that brings down great monuments of success. Don’t entertain immorality.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“Героїчні історії перетворюють бруд війни на повоєнну позолоту пам'ятників. Хочете знати, чим насправді була війна — читайте негероїчні історії.”
― Ярослав Грицак, Життя, смерть та інші неприємності

“The traveler wishing to observe Islamic Spain has his choice of two cities, Granada with its Alhambra or Córdoba with its Great Mosque (in Spanish Mezquita). Of the two former is be a considerable degree the more exciting and also the easier to absorb for its buildings, gardens and geographic settings are immediately recognizable as significant. It would take a dull man to miss the point of Granada, for its Alhambra is a museum of Islamic memories.”
― James A. Michener, Iberia