#monument

The Hercules' was a monumental undertaking. It is the largest aircraft ever built... I put the sweat of my life into this thing. ↗

— Howard Hughes

#built #ever #hercules #i #into

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 had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

#had #i #idea #like #monumental

Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#amending #continual #deeds #defending #democracy

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

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death. ↗

— Edmund Spenser

#death #else #genius #monuments #outlive

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

— Christo

#art #because #monumental #only

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. ↗

— Cato

#ask #dead #i #monument #people

People think our work is monumental because it's art, but human beings do much bigger things: they build giant airports, highways for thousands of miles, much, much bigger than what we create. ↗

— Christo

#because #beings #bigger #build #create