Commemoration Quote by Ambrose Bierce

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

— Roger Zelazny

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

— Claes Oldenburg

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.

— William Hazlitt

But monument themselves memorials need.

— George Crabbe

I don't want a monument. We don't build monuments; we build God's Kingdom.

— Reinhard Bonnke

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

— Antonio Gaudi

There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one; that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of…

— William Hazlitt

This monument is going to be built as a symbol.

— Bill Russell

Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments…

— John Lothrop Motley

America has no monuments to ideas; her monuments are erected to individuals.

— Gutzon Borglum

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

— Lew Wallace