Top 100 Monument Quotes
#1. Every kindness we have done is a monument built in our name in the heart of God!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#2. We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#3. One grows to the belief that, while woman's glory is in her hair, man's glory is to defeat some one. And if he can 'defeat with great slaughter' his monument is twice as high as if he had only visited on his brother man a plain undoing.
Elbert Hubbard
#4. 'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.
Claes Oldenburg
#5. Si monumentum requiris circumspice
(If you seek his monument, look around.)
[Epitaph on Wren's tomb in St. Paul's Cathedral]
Christopher Wren
#6. The murderer only takes the life of the parent and leaves his character as a goodly heritage to his children, whilst the slanderer takes away his goodly reputation and leaves him a living monument to his children's disgrace.
Andrew Jackson
#7. The San Gabriel monument expands our natural heritage, but there is more in need of safeguarding - extraordinary places like Utah's Greater Canyonlands.
Frances Beinecke
#8. Worst thing would be that Darling killed her. And then he'll probably shoot me and add me to his monument in the yard. But
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#9. The hunter died when he achieved supremacy. Perhaps the death of the hunter will be the long monument to interglacial man. We denied a future to our sucessor beings.
Robert Ardrey
#10. I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.
Tyrone Power
#11. Those only deserve a monument who do not need one; that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of men.
William Hazlitt
#12. Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunities. His discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is his monument.
Justin Winsor
#13. A young woman in love always looks like Patience on a monument Smiling at Grief.
Jane Austen
#14. The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between the Crees and the Beavers.
Ernest Thompson Seton
#15. If a man knew enough he could write a whole book about the juniper tree. Not juniper trees in general but that one particular juniper tree which grows from a ledge of naked sandstone near the old entrance to Arches National Monument.
Edward Abbey
#16. Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.
Washington Irving
#17. Sculpture may be almost anything: a monument, a statue, an old coin, a bas-relief, a portrait bust, a lifelong struggle against heavy odds.
Malvina Hoffman
#18. I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over the world, so the idea of patriotism is not very strong in me. My country is the country of Chekhov, Beethoven, Velasquez - writers I like, painters and artists I admire.
Antonio Lobo Antunes
#19. If I have done any honorable exploit, that is my monument; but if I have done none, all your statues will signify nothing.
Agesilaus II
#20. I have created nothing really beautiful, really lasting, but if I can inspire one of these youngsters to develop the talent I know they possess, then my monument will be in their work.
Augusta Savage
#21. If any task is yet another brick set in the construction of my own monument, it is in all likelihood a brick confiscated from someone else's monument.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#22. Live a life as a monument to your soul.
Ayn Rand
#23. When you feel sad, you are participating in a venerable experience, to which I, this monument, am dedicated. Your sense of loss and disappointment, of frustrated hopes and grief at your own inadequacy, elevate you to serious company. Do not ignore of throw away your grief
Alain De Botton
#24. The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#25. Gypsy [Rose Lee ] was a masterful storyteller, and her memoir and by extension, the musical weren't only Gypsy's monument; they were also her chance for monumental revisionism.
Karen Abbott
#26. There is an elegant memorial in Washington to Jefferson, but none to Hamilton. However, if you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.
George F. Will
#27. The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.
David Hume
#28. To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday's hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can't build a monument to past problems and fail forward.
John C. Maxwell
#29. If I have a monument in this world, it is my son.
Maya Angelou
#30. There, in the middle of this mall is the Washington Monument, 555 feet high. But if we put a one in front of that 555 feet, we get 1555, the year that our first fathers landed on the shores of Jamestown, Virginia as slaves.
Louis Farrakhan
#31. The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#32. In all my shows, I'm not interested in the iconic shots of the Capitol and the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. I'm always interested in trying to get the culture of the place - trying to get it right.
David Nevins
#33. The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: 'If you seek his monument, look around.'
Ludwig Von Mises
#34. I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.
Claes Oldenburg
#35. There's a monument due me by rank already
I'd blow the damn thing up with dynamite
So strongly I hate every kind of dead thing
So much I adore every kind of life!
Vladimir Mayakovsky
#36. It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need for compromise. There is no such thing as a perfect shot, a perfect film. The purpose of film is not to make a monument to oneself.
Irvin Kershner
#37. Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#38. Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti.
David Berlinski
#39. divine views in the entire country, so if you want to see what a true monument of manmade energy can be please check out the Taj Mahal!
Larry Phan
#40. This monument is going to be built as a symbol.
Bill Russell
#41. When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.
Alexander Pope
#42. When I am dead, I will not hurt anymore, will it Mama? ... When I am dead, build me a little monument of stones in the woods.
Alexei Nikolaevich
#43. You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#44. You'll never forget October 9, 2005, ... Every time you see the National Mall, every time you see that [Capitol] building back there, every time you see the national monument, you'll say 'I met God on the National Mall.'
Luis Palau
#45. The second assault on Fallujah was a monument to brutality and atrocity made in the United States of America. Like the Spanish city of Guernica during the 1930s, and Grozny in the 1990s Fallujah is our monument of excess and overkill.
Dahr Jamail
#46. Boswell's Johnson is the word made flesh ... an extemporaneous man talking himself into the thick of every occasion (in a world ofoccasions if nothing else) and therefore no monument at all but all that can be saved of a man alive in the pages of a book.
Marvin Mudrick
#47. Another well-known Paris landmark is the Arc de Triomphe, a moving monument to the many brave women and men who have died trying to visit it.
Dave Barry
#48. I just want the days of my life to add up to something. The way every day of your life, the way it can just disappear in front of the television, Denny says he wants a rock to show for each day. Something tangible. Just one thing. A little monument to mark the end of each day.
Chuck Palahniuk
#49. The shop was a monument to uninhibited human depravity, the kind that scars souls with permanent shadows. I
Bobby Adair
#50. Stamps from Afghanistan are hilarious. You can tell when the revolutions are because suddenly they stop having pictures of the mullahs and the independence monument and they start having fish on them.
Samuel West
#51. A film star is a kind of public monument, and everyone's staring at them, and they've kind of got railings around them, and they're rather miserable most of the time.
Stephen Fry
#52. For twenty-seven years I was witness to the spiritual deterioration of my own father, watching day after day how everything human in him left him and how gradually he turned into a grim monument to his own self ...
Svetlana Alliluyeva
#53. Is there no pity sitting in the clouds
That sees into the bottom of my grief?
O sweet my mother, cast me not away!
Delay this marriage for a month, a week,
Or if you do not, make the bridal bed
In that dim monument where Tybalt lies.
William Shakespeare
#54. James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.
Edward Abbey
#56. Kurt Godel's achievement in modern logic is singular and monumental - indeed it is more than a monument, it is a landmark which will remain visible far in space and time ... The subject of logic has certainly completely changed its nature and possibilities with Godel's achievement.
John Von Neumann
#57. We need to build a beautiful granite and bronze monument in our nation's capital to honor American heroes, unsung American heroes. And those unsung American heroes are the rich.
Bernard Goldberg
#58. In order to satisfy this great oneiric function, which makes it not a kind of total monument, the [Eiffel] Tower must escape reason. The first condition of this victorious flight is that the Tower be an utterly useless monument.
Roland Barthes
#59. If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.
Agesilaus II
#60. I turned down the OBE because its not a club you want to join when you look at the villains whove got it. Its all the things I think are despicable: patronage, deferring to the monarchy and the name of the British Empire, which is a monument of exploitation and conquest.
Ken Loach
#61. They were obviously headstones of graves, though the graves themselves no longer existed as either mounds or depressions; the years had leveled all. Scattered here and there, more massive blocks showed where some pompous or ambitious monument had once flung its feeble defiance at oblivion.
Ambrose Bierce
#62. Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.
Robert Lowell
#63. A broken heart is a monument to a love that will never die; fulfillment is a monument to a love that is already on its deathbed.
George Jean Nathan
#64. Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.
George S. Patton
#65. I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.
Horace
#66. Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
Charles Caleb Colton
#67. 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
#68. I would hear the song of the columns and visualize in the pure sky the monument of a melody.
Paul Valery
#69. The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument.
Arthur Guiterman
#71. It will be the dawn of my new kingdom. I will scour all life from this continent, and this pyramid shall stand as a monument to my power - the final and eternal tomb of Osiris!
Rick Riordan
#72. I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery.
Haile Gerima
#73. For more than half a century, during which kingdoms and empires have fallen, this Union has stood unshaken. The patriots who formed it have long since descended to the grave; yet still it remains, the proudest monument to their memory ...
Zachary Taylor
#74. Bury my body and don't build any monument. Keep my hands out so the people know the one who won the world had nothing in hand when he died.
Alexander The Great
#75. The city of Hiroshima stands as more than a monument to massive death and destruction. It stands as a living testament to the necessity for progress toward nuclear disarmament.
Edward Kennedy
#76. I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed ... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.
Anna Akhmatova
#77. The earliest dated monument yet discovered in Tikal and all of the Maya lowlands, Stela 29, has a Long Count date of 8.12.14.13.15, which translates to A.D. 292.
David Roberts
#78. emotion. I was a monument to our theft. I was an iconoclast.
Mike Avitabile
#79. Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.
Hunter S. Thompson
#80. Gorky called for the building of a monument to the young martyr, who, the writer said, had 'understood that a relative by blood may also be an enemy of the spirit, and that such a person is not to be spared'.69
Orlando Figes
#81. A monument of grace, A sinner saved by blood; The streams of love I trace Up to the Fountain, God; And in His sacred bosom see Eternal thoughts of Love to me.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#82. Make your life a monument of visions. Serving, caring, and sharing are the passions.
Debasish Mridha
#83. With all the stones being thrown against me you could build a monument!
Jose Mourinho
#84. Excuse is the tool of the incompetent. A monument of nothingness, and those that use it are not wise.
Paul Adefarasin
#85. It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument, and to convey some knowledge of us to the most remote posterity, is a work of bare utility; not a shrine, not a fortress, not a palace, but a bridge. - MONTGOMERY SCHUYLER IN HARPER'S WEEKLY, MAY 24, 1883
David McCullough
#86. Let him who looks for a monument to Washington look around the United States. Your freedom, your independence, your national power, your prosperity, and your prodigious growth are a monument to him.
Lajos Kossuth
#87. The weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic weather or hoist himself aloft to inscribe his name on a virgin monument.
Honore De Balzac
#88. A great city with water barriers and no bridges is like a skyscraper with no elevators. Bridges are a monument to progress.
Joseph Straus
#89. But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.
Lafcadio Hearn
#90. This bread and wine are the simple but eloquent monument to the infinite love of the Son of God, around which we gather with tender, tearful gratitude, because He loved us'so, and because we know that our garlands of affection and consecration are pleasing to Him.
Abbott Eliot Kittredge
#91. Even the buckle, with the help of which the prehistoric Greek fastened his cloak, has been shown by a German scholar to imply an arrangement of the dress such as we see represented on the Hittite monument of Ibreez.
A.H. Sayce
#92. I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting a monument does not require an expenditure of so much strength.
Franz Kafka
#93. I told him they built a statue of Schultz, and then he said that a monument is cold comfort to a dead man, and then I said that the statue was built not for Schultz, but for us
to remind us how to be human.
John Green
#94. The tractor sat as a monument to village exploitation.
Anonymous
#95. Being a painter myself ... whenever I could dispense with architectural precision, I indulged in the picturesque, in which case I sacrificed a few details when necessary in favor of an imposing effect that would give a monument its real character and also preserve the poetic charm that surrounds it.
Charles Negre
#96. Maybe it's time to realize that our greatest contributions are not the monuments that we construct, but the lives that we change because we took the time to add to the monument which is them.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#97. The ruins stood above the hissing traffic like some monument to doomed expectations.
Don DeLillo
#98. The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument may be distant from our shores, but it will help us understand how healthy marine ecosystems work and how we can revive troubled seas closer to home.
Frances Beinecke
#99. Let our object be - our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. And by the blessing of God, may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument - not of oppression and terror, but of wisdom, of Peace, and of Liberty, upon which the world may gaze with admiration forever.
Daniel Webster
#100. The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.
Madeleine De Scudery
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