#monument

But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#artistic #beauty #bible #chinese #every

It appears to be monumental only because it's art. ↗

— Christo

#art #because #monumental #only

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant? ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

#ignorant #look #monuments #mortals #names

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

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#century #could #george #human #human race

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. ↗

— Ted Kulongoski

#choice #choose #commentary #face #future

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

#blanket #came #chambers #darkness #federal

There are thousands of Ten Commandments plaques or monuments all over the country, and lawsuits to remove them have popped up in more than a dozen states. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#country #dozen #lawsuits #monuments #more

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

Monuments are for the living, not the dead. ↗

— Frank Wedekind

#living #monuments