Top 34 The 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
#3. 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
#4. Dark human shapes could be made out in the distance, flitting indistinctly against the gloomy border of the forest,
Joseph Conrad
#5. 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
#6. 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
#8. 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
#9. Yeah! I went to the set of Monuments Men.
Don Cheadle
#10. 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
#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. 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
#13. Robot RHR14- "I have been with this human family through all their joys and tragedies, and if there was a tragedy in my existence, it was creating me in the first place. For they dared to give me the concept of Love and Compassion yet withheld my abilty to cry.
Jay B. Cox
#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. But leaders need to be mostly dead. People want solid monuments to cling to, not confused men like themselves.
Alasdair Gray
#16. 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
#17. If there is no God there is no hereafter. When, therefore, one drives God out of the universe he closes the door of hope upon himself.
William Jennings Bryan
#18. It's not that gays and diversity equal high technology. But if your culture is not such that it can accept difference, and uniqueness and oddity and eccentricity, you will not get high tech industry.
Richard Florida
#19. That's all any of us can do. Try. sometimes I think it's not the winning or the losing, or even the right and wrong of things, it's the trying that makes us keep on living and hoping.
Jodi Thomas
#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. You will protect with the last drop of someone else's blood what was never yours.
Kenneth Patchen
#22. I had always hated how things seemed ever so slightly worse, ever so slightly more insane at night.
Lindsey Kelk
#25. 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
#26. But I don't think there's any reason to get married again, especially after what I've been through.
Liza Minnelli
#27. 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
#28. '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
#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. Fighting to scale back a reactionary initiative is one thing. Supporting the scaled back version, though, is a betrayal when the scaled back version does exactly the same thing just not as much. This sort of thing is a strategy for the ACLU.
Anonymous
#32. Confidence is not allowing your fear of weaknesses and limitations to hold you back but to take control of your weakness and limitation.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#33. 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
#34. Monuments make momentous men immortal, but more memorable are mortal men making mere moments monumental.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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