Gutzon Borglum Quotes

To go to the White House is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In fact, the building is not that big.

The Tower of David is important for Israel's heritage and existence because it is more than a tower, it is a symbol. It is more important than the Azrieli Towers.

I grew up in New Jersey and never went up the Statue of Liberty.

I play a curator, the most American part you can think of. My work is to protect the Declaration of Independence. I work at the National Archives in Washington.

I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris.

I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.

Perhaps we should wait until his second term begins before carving Barack Obama's face in Mount Rushmore. Is that asking too much?

The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is.

Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families.

'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.

A star for every State, and a State for every star.

Father of the Country [Pater Patriae]

[Describing the White House:] Big enough for two emperors, one Pope and the Grand Lama.

Mt. Rushmore was conceived in 1923 in a desperate attempt to draw tourist dollars to a state that had been rushed into the Union to protect Republican political dominance and could not manage to achieve economic stability.

Our flag is our identity, and we can't disrespect or let anyone else disrespect our identity.

Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.

Every time I walk through the White House gates, if you don't stop and take it in and recognize that you are a witness to history, it's time for you, frankly, to get a new job.

I love to drive in the Black Hills of Wyoming and South Dakota with Mount Rushmore as the central stop.

Like Grand Central Station, which is a marvelous building, the design and engineering of the Oculus will endure for many generations to come.

I kind of wish I would have been able to see the old Yankee Stadium after seeing the new one.

If Seattle could put my jersey on top of the Space Needle, they would.

Our original title, you know, was 'The Man in Lincoln's Nose'. Couldn't use it, though. They also wouldn't let us shoot people on Mount Rushmore. Can't deface a national monument. And it's a pity, too, because I had a wonde.

The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

A flag is supposed to represent everything that a country does. It doesn't only represent the good things. If you burn the flag, you're burning the flag for what you perceive to be the bad things the country has done. it's only a symbol. It's only a piece of cloth.

You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.