Eras Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Since every building and designed object is made of memory, every place can become a memorial for re-membering our lives and the world around…

— Anthony Lawlor

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

“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

But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need…

— Dan Rather

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

— Anonymous

But monument themselves memorials need.

— George Crabbe

“It’s the same nonsense for which all monuments are built: we fought, we bled, we died, and all in the name of glory. And…

— Melissa Grey

Let us not only remember the past and its required sacrifice, let us also remember that we are responsible to build a legacy for…

— Thomas S. Monson

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

— Frank Wedekind

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future

— Robert Smithson

“Maybe it’s time to realize that our greatest contributions are not the monuments that we construct, but the lives that we change because we…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough