Quotes About National Monuments

#1. After independence was gained, one of the first Acts passed by the Greek government was for the protection and preservation of national monuments.

Melina Mercouri

#2. Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

Frances Beinecke

#3. Friends give me a hard time about the pants I'm wearing, which are made in China. Well, how do you find the right clothes? Or the right movie studio? The right people giving you checks? Good luck doing the right thing all the time.

Adam McKay

#4. Liberty of conscience is for those who truly fear the Lord. A fundamental task of the state is the establishment of pure religion.

John Cotton

#5. Every girl creates a dream in her mind; everyone needs an idol.

Roberto Cavalli

#6. The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#7. It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.

Ann Brashares

#8. Never compromise the glorious Gospel. It is the Gospel "from" Christ and not merely a Gospel "about" Christ. Gal 1:6-12

John Paul Warren

#9. A wise nation preserves its records, gathers
up its monuments, decorates the tombes of its illustrious dead, repairs its
greatest structures and fosters national pride and love of country, by perpetual
references to the sacrifices and glories of the past.

Joseph Howe

#10. Cities are beautiful because they are created slowly; they are made by time. A city is born from a tangle of monuments and infrastructures , culture and market, national history and everyday stories. It takes 500 years to create a city, 50 to create a neighborhood.

Renzo Piano

#11. Strange trails are good places to bloom.

Paul J. Pastor