#monument

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #monument




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.


Hugh Sidey


#anywhere #brave #columbia #compass #district

Because Great Britain has self-confidence, it doesn't need a monumental Olympics.


Ai Weiwei


#britain #great #great britain #monumental #need

If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.


George Will


#central #central government #country #government #hamilton

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.


Paul Harvey


#i #monument #never #pessimist #seen

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.


Will Harvey


#i #monument #never #pessimist #seen

Your mother hollers that you’re going to miss the bus. She can see it coming down the street. You don’t stop and hug her and tell her you love her. You don’t thank her for being a good, kind, patient mother. Of course not -- you vault down down the stairs and make a run for the corner. Only if it’s the last time you’ll ever see your mother, you sort of start to wish you’d stopped and did those things. Maybe even missed the bus. But the bus was barreling down our street so I ran.


Emmy Laybourne


#monument- #love

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.


Pericles


#engraved #into #leave #lives #monuments

Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt.


Bruce Babbitt


#establish #i #i think #know #land

This monument is going to be built as a symbol.


Bill Russell


#going #monument #symbol

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.


Tommy Douglas


#being #buildings #i #mind #monument