Monument Quotes

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

— Rick Riordan

Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.

— Robert Lowell

“Why not laugh again, and let your joy be my monument?”

— Stephanie Roberts

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

— Francis Bacon

There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument

— Robert Musil

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

— Tyrone Power

Live a life as a monument to your soul.

— Ayn Rand

But monument themselves memorials need.

— George Crabbe

Bury my body and don't build any monument. Keep my hands out so the people know the one who won the world…

— Alexander The Great

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

— Antonio Gaudi

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

— Richard Paul Evans

The redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down--vast monument of strength.

— John Milton

People are quick to make monuments of anything they live long enough to control.

— Hilton Als

A broken heart is a monument to a love that will never die; fulfillment is a monument to a love that is…

— George Jean Nathan

Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti.

— David Berlinski

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

— Rob Huebel

Only when the true ends of society have nothing to do with the sublime does "culture" become necessary as a veneer to…

— Allan Bloom

We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty…

— George Will

Everyone asks about how I'll feel about the tattoos and scars in thirty years. I always say: "I'll like them." I've always…

— Emma Forrest

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America…

— Hunter S. Thompson

The second assault on Fallujah was a monument to brutality and atrocity made in the United States of America. Like the Spanish…

— Dahr Jamail

For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as…

— Washington Irving

It's no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the…

— Red Smith

The flood will lift the ghosts from the Hollywood lawn cemetery and they will disappear like ether in the now dead air.…

— Robert Montgomery

I find that a real gardener is not a man who cultivates flowers; he is a man who cultivates the soil. He…

— Karel Capek

We tend to think of memories as monuments we once forged and may find intact beneath the weedy growth of years. But,…

— Diane Ackerman

These ceremonies and the National Statuary Hall will teach the youth of the land in succeeding generations as they come and go…

— Alexander H. Stephens

Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and…

— Francis Bacon

London, black as crows and noisy as ducks, prudish with all the vices in evidence, everlastingly drunk, in spite of ridiculous laws…

— Paul Verlaine

Labor, with its coarse raiment and its bare right arm, has gone forth in the earth, achieving the truest conquests and rearing…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Mind you, Mount Rushmore isn't exactly the Parthenon or the Sistine Chapel either. After the naïve daftness of the Crazy Horse monument,…

— Stephen Fry

In my plea for freedom to all consciences in matters merely of worship, I have impartially pleaded for freedom of the consciences…

— Roger Williams

What joins the Americans one to another is not a common ancestry, language or race, but a shared work of the imagination…

— Lewis H. Lapham

Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake,…

— Anonymous

If the finding of Coines, Medals, Urnes, and other Monuments of famous Persons, or Towns, or Utensils, be admitted for unquestionable Proofs,…

— Robert Hooke

“It is good to recall that three centuries ago, around the year 1660, two of the greatest monuments of modern history were…

— Abdus Salam

“Modern architects and engineers are still trying to understand how the ancient Greeks were able to build the Parthenon in ten years…

— Christopher Dunn

“Kilometa mbili na ushei kidogo kutoka katika sanamu la Yesu Mtoto liitwalo Niñopa, katika Kanisa la Parokia ya Manispaa ya Xochimilco ('Sochimiliko')…

— Enock Maregesi

The main duty of the historian of mathematics, as well as his fondest privilege, is to explain the humanity of mathematics, to…

— George Sarton