Monuments Men Quotes

#1. They were looking at videos, and the woman was giggling quietly, as they often do in porn stores, unable to believe what they're seeing, the monuments men have built to vaginas and to the very notion of sex.

Drew Nellins Smith

#2. Yeah! I went to the set of Monuments Men.

Don Cheadle

#3. 'Monuments Men' is a movie ... I don't want to say for grown-ups, because some young folks could appreciate it, too. But if you're expecting 'Transformers,' you're going to be disappointed.

Grant Heslov

#4. Marina Warner's Monuments and Maidens explains how it comes about that individual men's names and faces are enshrined in monuments, supported by identical, anonymous (and "beautiful") stone women.

Naomi Wolf

#5. It is probable that a greater number of monuments of the skill and industry of man will, in the course of the ages, be collected together in the bed of the ocean than will exist at any other time on the surface of the continents.

Charles Lyell

#6. I would say hard times call for hard measures, but the Constitution is even a greater treasure than these monuments and the great men who inspired them.

Kenneth Eade

#7. Man's drive for self-expression, which over the centuries has built his monuments, does not stay within its bounds; the creations which yesterday were detested and the obscene become the classics of today.

Mathew Tobriner

#8. Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money.

John Prebble

#9. Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.

Thomas Browne

#10. Brave deeds are the monuments of brave men.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#11. If you want to feel the life and the body of great men who are long gone, go to their tombs or monuments; if you want to understand the real life and the wisdom of great men who are long gone, go to their libraries!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#12. David set me to learn other skills, too, in those days of restless waiting.

Geraldine Brooks

#13. Many legends were made, stories written, monuments built - all witnessing the efforts of men to secure the successful voyage of their souls into the world of eternal dreams.

Stevan V. Nikolic

#14. Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.

Edward Young

#15. He that enjoys naught without thanksgiving is as though he robbed God.

Saint John Chrysostom

#16. However great the challenge, it's easier to overcome with a decent meal inside of you.

Walter Moers

#17. But leaders need to be mostly dead. People want solid monuments to cling to, not confused men like themselves.

Alasdair Gray

#18. Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom.

Cyril Connolly

#19. I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.

Langston Hughes

#20. Honorable men refuse to wallow in the small and the bitter. Honorable men refuse to hate life because something once went wrong. Honorable men don't build monuments to their disappointments, nor do they let others brand them and curse them to their destruction. Honorable

Stephen Mansfield

#21. Twitter is an astounding platform for information, but it's a total blank slate - which means it's an astounding platform for disinformation, too.

Rachel Sklar

#22. With monuments as with men, position means everything.

Honore De Balzac

#23. Monuments, like men, submit to fate.

Alexander Pope

#24. I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the immortal by giving birth, men
great men
must build monuments and seek fame?

Karen Essex

#25. Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#26. The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.

Jules Renard

#27. She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.

Beverly Cleary

#28. Fellows are just naturally interested in a good piece of work and have no unnatural restrictions in looking it over. Perhaps, and may the sahibs of the Fogg forgive me for thinking it, this simple, curious outlook of healthy men is more important than some of the monuments themselves.

Robert M. Edsel

#29. You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest, Where man can boast that he has trod On him that was "the scourge of God."

Edward Everett Hale

#30. There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#31. There's not a person in Virginia won't try to sell you a horse. It's in 'em.

Isabel Scott Rorick

#32. The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

#33. A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

#34. Monuments make momentous men immortal, but more memorable are mortal men making mere moments monumental.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt