Monument Quotes · Page 5

Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.

— Leon Trotsky

Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.

— Steven Grayhm

The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his…

— Alfred Armand Montapert

It's very hard to go to Monument Valley and not think of John Ford's films.

— Janusz Kaminski

[Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology.

— Georges Cuvier

Character and Integrity, a monument that the force of time can never erode

— Melchor Lim

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

— Anonymous

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

— Madeleine de Scudery

The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Netherton was looking at the oversized bronze head of a bearded man, its neck having been crudely severed from whatever figure it…

— William Gibson

Boswell's Johnson is the word made flesh... an extemporaneous man talking himself into the thick of every occasion (in a world ofoccasions…

— Marvin Mudrick

“My Tennessee family had storm shelters. Dug into hillsides before I was born. All unused as I saw them. Just shelters for…

— Damon Thomas

Monuments may be builded to express the affection or pride of friends, or to display their wealth, but they are only valuable…

— James A. Garfield

For twenty-seven years I was witness to the spiritual deterioration of my own father, watching day after day how everything human in…

— Svetlana Alliluyeva

As a people, our monuments never commemorate victories. They commemorate the names of the fallen. We don't need the Arc de Triomphe;…

— David Elazar

Stamps from Afghanistan are hilarious. You can tell when the revolutions are because suddenly they stop having pictures of the mullahs and…

— Samuel West

We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the…

— Francis Bacon

Where dwells the religion? Tell me first where dwells electricity, or motion, or thought or gesture. They do not dwell or stay…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are some monuments where the land is so widespread, they just encompass as much as possible. And the integral part of…

— George W. Bush

“I recognized the great monument from the illustration in the copy of /The Jungle Book/ that my mother kept in the top…

— Lee Siegel

[The works of Archimedes] are without exception, monuments of mathematical exposition; the gradual revelation of the plan of attack, the masterly ordering…

— Thomas Little Heath

The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've…

— Anonymous

I beseech those whose piety will permit them reverently to petition, that they will pray for this union, and ask that He…

— Sam Houston

There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains itsmaxims.…

— Henry David Thoreau

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

— Kin Hubbard

Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our…

— Charles Caleb Colton

People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.

— Vanna Bonta

“Sometimes our experiences helps us build the monument that forms the base for what God wants us to do.”

— Bidemi Mark-Mordi

When I am dead, I will not hurt anymore, will it Mama?...When I am dead, build me a little monument of stones…

— Alexei Romanov

You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“North Carolina has a monument to [Peter Francisco], and no one knows that. That's the kind of stuff that drives me.”

— Travis Scott Bowman

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

— Tom Robbins

She is so naked and singular. She is the sum of yourself and your dream. Climb her like a monument, step after…

— Anne Sexton

The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.

— Pliny the Younger

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

— Claes Oldenburg

I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.

— Claes Oldenburg

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

— Roger Zelazny

The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.

— Ayn Rand

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

— Francis Bacon

We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they're gone.

— Richard Paul Evans