Building Quote by Anthony Lawlor

Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing…

— Margaret Atwood

The purpose of the memorial is to communicate the founding, expansion, preservation, and unification of the United States with colossal statues of Washington, Jefferson,…

— Gutzon Borglum

If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.

— Agesilaus II

How we delight to build our recollections upon some basis of reality,--a place, a country, a local habitation! how the events of life, as…

— Washington Irving

But monument themselves memorials need.

— George Crabbe

“I'm not a big fan of memorials." "Oh yeah?" "A memorial implies that the only victims are the ones in the ground. I think…

— Mariko Tamaki

Gone is not forgotten, but our lives cannot be a memorial. This city cannot be a memorial. This city has to be a city.…

— David Levithan

It's a walk of remembrance, a commemorative event for the victims of the twin towers, Pentagon, and Pennsylvania, ... We must reflect on the…

— Greg Hicks

When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future -- for generations who didn't know…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“People don’t gather after a death to mourn, but rather to reaffirm why life matters and to remember to exult in the only one…

— Heather Lende

There will be a competition for the memorial. And then it can be developed with trees, with planting. It can become a very beautiful…

— Daniel Libeskind

“But what is a memorial, when you come right down to it, but a commemoration of wounds endured? Endured, and resented. Without memory, there…

— Margaret Atwood