Being Quote by Claes Oldenburg

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

— Roger Zelazny

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

MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated.

— Ambrose Bierce

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.

— William Hazlitt

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

— Reinhard Bonnke

The graphic emphasis placed on those first lines is rather hard to square with the proposition that the monument expresses no particular religious preference.

— John Paul Stevens

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

— Anonymous

Monuments may be builded to express the affection or pride of friends, or to display their wealth, but they are only valuable for the…

— James A. Garfield

But monument themselves memorials need.

— George Crabbe

The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and…

— Alfred Armand Montapert