Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments. — Antonio Gaudi Copy Share Image
People are quick to make monuments of anything they live long enough to control. — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
“...your deeds are like your monuments. Built with memories instead of stone.” — R.J. Palacio Copy Share Image
Most monuments are not something you're going to keep me out of. And I go to a lot of monuments. — Rob Huebel Copy Share Image
“But leaders need to be mostly dead. People want solid monuments to cling to, not confused men like themselves.” — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
Nothing is worse than a Yankee telling a Southerner that his monuments don't matter. — Corey Stewart Copy Share Image
Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil. — Kin Hubbard Copy Share Image
Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for… — Marguerite Gardiner Copy Share Image
'Monuments Men' is a movie... I don't want to say for grown-ups, because some young folks could appreciate it, too. But if… — Grant Heslov Copy Share Image
A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“People create all kind of fancy watches and clocks, never stopping to realize they're building monuments to the greatest of all thieves.” — K. Martin Beckner Copy Share Image
President Theodore Roosevelt, who signed the Antiquities Act into law, created 18 monuments, including the Grand Canyon and Olympic National Park in… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
It's time to stop building the shopping malls, the prisons, the stadiums and other tributes to all of our collective failures. It… — Majora Carter Copy Share Image
Some of the opposition to the national monuments may be ideological. Western ranchers and sportsmen have long complained about what they see… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it.… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
The most fitting monuments this nation can build are schoolhouses and homes for those who do the work of the world. It… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay,… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
“To visit the Tower, then, is to enter into contact not with a historical Sacred, as is the case for the majority… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labor's monuments and statues are when a young person… — Bill Shorten Copy Share Image
“was it man's love to screw the sky with monuments span the bay with orange and silver bridges shuttling structure into structure… — Gregory Corso Copy Share Image
“They passed a succession of granite monuments to the conquering magicians of the late Victorian age and the fallen heroes of the… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
“The traveler wishing to observe Islamic Spain has his choice of two cities, Granada with its Alhambra or Córdoba with its Great… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“Not marble nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme, But you shall shine more bright in these contents… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“TWENTY-SEVEN acres of headstones fill the American military cemetery at Carthage, Tunisia. There are no obelisks, no tombs, no ostentatious monuments, just… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
“It is good to recall that three centuries ago, around the year 1660, two of the greatest monuments of modern history were… — Abdus Salam Copy Share Image
“You see that stones are worn away by time, Rocks rot, and twoers topple, even the shrines And images of the gods… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Those who will may raise monuments of marble to perpetuate the fame of heroes. Those who will may build memorial halls to… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
“Michael King was a young preacher with horn-rimmed glasses and a close-cropped beard and mustache. "The Bible says, if eating meat offends… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
