Ancient Monuments Quotes

#1. But I shall spare her. On the ancient monuments of barbarism and despotism I will inscribe great words of justice and mercy

Leo Tolstoy

#2. All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.

Baron D'Holbach

#3. How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments! As though any havoc of the German bombs could possibly equal the things we have done ourselves!

Osbert Sitwell

#4. If you're trying to get a bit of attention, you can smash up your hotel room or spend all your time going to openings or doing the gossip column thing. I just decided to do gigs in French, German, Spanish, and in America.

Eddie Izzard

#5. Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof.

Samuel Richardson

#6. Yeah, me and Q-Tip is cool outside of the business, but you know, within the business sometimes it can get ugly, you know what I mean?

Phife Dawg

#7. My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did.

Roger Bannister

#8. What would the people who sold us goods do with the money? They'd get dollars. What would they do with the dollars? Eat them?!

Milton Friedman

#9. Be serious," said Enjolras. "I am wild," replied Grantaire.

Victor Hugo

#10. Two thousand summers have imparted to the monuments of Grecian literature, as to her marbles, only a maturer golden and autumnal tint, for they have carried their own serene and celestial atmosphere into all lands to protect them against the corrosion of time.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry ...

Erica Jong

#12. It's no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the YankeeStadium of ancient times.

Red Smith

#13. To Retain those who are present, be loyal to those who are absent.

Stephen R. Covey

#14. Once it's jam, it can't be strawberries anymore.

Marilyn Wallace

#15. You can do gross-out until the cows come home but if there isn't something to balance it, then it's not going to work at all.

Curtis Armstrong