Monument Quotes
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If all the bones of all the victims of the Catholic Church could be gathered together, a monument higher than all the pyramids would rise
Robert Green Ingersoll
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A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them
Mark Twain
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I`ve done an awful lot of stuff that`s a monument to public patience.
Tyrone Power
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I turned down the OBE because it`s not a club you want to join when you look at the villains who`ve got it. It`s all the things I think are despicable: patronage, deferring to the monarchy and the name of the British Empire, which is a monument of exploit...
Ken Loach
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[on North by Northwest (1959)] "Our original title, you know, was `The Man in Lincoln`s Nose`. Couldn`t use it, though. They also wouldn`t let us shoot people on Mount Rushmore. Can`t deface a national monument. And it`s a pity, too, because I had a wonde...
Alfred Hitchcock
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[on MGM chief Louis B. Mayer] Louis B. Mayer came out west with $28.00, a box camera and an old lion. He built a monument to himself -- the Bank of America.
Bob Hope
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You see, greatness for a state doesn`t require some huge monument for all to see. It is not a journey to a particular destination - but a commitment to follow a course of constant and never-ending improvement.
Andrea West
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Well, I think everybody`s a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that.
Alain Vais
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We`re doing everything in our power to make sure all the names are spelled correctly. We have up to eight weeks before they deliver the monument from Vermont to make any corrections in the spellings.
Andy Ihnatko
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The Forest Service has argued that because the project was approved before it being named a monument, they said they could still do this years later, but the judge said they could not.
Patrick Gallagher
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People have long been hoping to find a carved stone monument from this period of the Maya.
Mary Miller
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My gut feeling is that they`ll take it down one day and make some kind of monument out of it,
Arief Supratman
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It is the intention for the Makars` Court to grow and develop as the Scottish national literary monument. This week`s additions will take the number to 25 writers of national importance commemorated there.
Ann Dumas
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It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.
Andrew Aran
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I`ve never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.
Andrew MacLeod
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I think that`s become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that`s a noble project.
Sylvester Stallone
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I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.
Maya Lin
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I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.
Maya Lin
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Green School was a monument to education in this part of the world,
Barbara Bonfiglio
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But he said Blanket Hill should be a national monument. And so we came out of his chambers feeling, though while we had lost to the powers of darkness, we had at least shown one Federal Judge what the right path would have been.
William Kunstler
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After I`m dead I`d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Aaron Lynn
Source: quotationspage.com
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There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.
Adam Jacobs
Subject: Committees QuotesSource: quotationspage.com
