#monument

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

#along #asia #began #camera #details

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#many #monuments #peace #than #unveil

It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.' ↗

— Pat Robertson

#been #god #great #great nation #look

Monuments are for the living, not the dead. ↗

— Frank Wedekind

#living #monuments

In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. An intense love, a veritable tornado sweeping across the plains—flattening everything in its path, tossing things up in the air, ripping them to shreds, crushing them to bits. The tornado’s intensity doesn’t abate for a second as it blasts across the ocean, laying waste to Angkor Wat, incinerating an Indian jungle, tigers and everything, transforming itself into a Persian desert sandstorm, burying an exotic fortress city under a sea of sand. In short, a love of truly monumental proportions. The person she fell in love with happened to be 17 years older than Sumire. And was married. And, I should add, was a woman. This is where it all began, and where it all ended. Almost. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#intensity #love #monumental #tornado #life

There’s a monument due me by rank already I’d blow the damn thing up with dynamite So strongly I hate every kind of dead thing So much I adore every kind of life! ↗

— Vladimir Mayakovsky

#monument #life

The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol. ↗

— Pamela Anderson

#capitol #colonel #cruelty #kentucky #monument

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

#back #country #creation #everglades #front

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. ↗

— Vincente Fox

#beings #between #civilizations #dialogue #establish

My hope lies with people who never go to Washington except to see the monuments. ↗

— Joel Kotkin

#go #hope #lies #monuments #never