Monument Quotes

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

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

But monument themselves memorials need.

Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.

Monuments obtain their full worth through their complete use.

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.

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.

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

Yeah! I went to the set of Monuments Men.

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

I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.

Great, I thought. We just blowtorched a national monument.

My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.

Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.

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