Arches Quote by Eero Saarinen

The major concern ...was to create a monument which would have lasting significance and would be a landmark of our time... Neither an obelisk…

— Eero Saarinen

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

As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found…

— Henry David Thoreau

I never saw a pyramid, but I've seen photographs; I know what a pyramid or a sphinx looks like. There are pictures that do…

— Garry Winogrand

The monument of death will outlast the memory of the dead. The Pyramids do not tell the tale which was confided to them; the…

— Henry David Thoreau

The difference between the Pyramids in Egypt and the ones in Mexico is there is nothing inside the Mexican Pyramids. In the African Pyramids,…

— John Henrik Clarke

Our public monuments are memorials to the Enlightenment.

— Mason Cooley

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

“construction – and how they were aligned so precisely with the aid of astronomy – leave us with more questions than answers. Like anything…

— Robert Carlson

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

— Claes Oldenburg

“Like the elite of ancient Egypt, most people in most cultures dedicate their lives to building pyramids. Only the names, shapes and sizes of…

— Yuval Noah Harari

I saw a human pyramid once. It was very unnecessary. It did not need to exist.

— Mitch Hedberg