Monument Quotes

273 Monument quotes by 228 unique authors

For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to which these sights were the monuments and the remembrances. For an… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes -all of them. They must remain standing because they are a… — Rod Serling
I told him they built a statue of Schultz, and then he said that a monument is cold comfort to a dead man, and then… — John Green
Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst,… — James A. Baldwin
Somehow the pain, the losses, the hurt, the bad, God is able to transform these into something they could have never been, icons and monuments… — William P. Young
A legacy that powerful does not disappear. Next to the Egyptians, the Greeks and Romans were babies. Our modern nations like Great Britain and America?… — Rick Riordan
I hate it when people let me down, when things are temporary. I think that's why I want to be an architect." "To build something… — Rick Riordan
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. — Pericles
When smashing monuments, save the pedestals-they always come in handy. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. — Cato the Elder
To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday's hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can't build a monument to past problems and… — John C. Maxwell
The question now at issue, whether the living species are connected with the extinct by a common bond of descent, will best be cleared up… — Charles Lyell
My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never. — Craig Brown
It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended upon Washington. Hundreds of thousands of protesters trekked through… — Yvette Clarke
I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal. — Claes Oldenburg
It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that… — Ted Kulongoski
Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very… — Adolf Loos
But he said Blanket Hill should be a national monument. And so we came out of his chambers feeling, though while we had lost to… — William Kunstler
This monument is going to be built as a symbol. — Bill Russell
Therefore beauty is the true monument and spoil of the victory of the soul, when she with heavenly influence beareth rule over material and gross… — Thomas Hoby

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