Monument Quotes

Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments.

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America’s power. It has been the symbol of our great nation, we look at that monument and we say this is one nation under God.

There's as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail.

If you go to Gettysburg and take the time, maybe take a tour, maybe just drive around, read some of the monuments, read some of the plaques, you will come away changed.

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.

Lets build a monument for the veto. Lets build a monument for impotence and incapacity.

With all the stones being thrown against me you could build a monument!

Here was a monument, in fieldstone, to the art of family life.

Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive.

The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.

If I have done any honorable exploit, that is my monument; but if I have done none, all your statues will signify nothing.

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.

But monument themselves memorials need.

The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.

What the masses want are monuments.

I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass.

Monuments obtain their full worth through their complete use.

Relationships are monuments build on lies

Our public monuments are memorials to the Enlightenment.

Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

Ultimately, the roast turkey must be regarded as a monument to Boomer's love.

I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.

Most monuments are not something you're going to keep me out of. And I go to a lot of monuments.