Accustomed Quote by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I am weary seeing our laboring classes so wretchedly housed, fed, and clothed, while thousands of dollars are wasted every year over unsightly statues.…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

People are quick to make monuments of anything they live long enough to control.

— Hilton Als

There are some monuments where the land is so widespread, they just encompass as much as possible. And the integral part of the -…

— George W. Bush

Make you're choices, answer your calls. Live the moments and the monuments will take care of themselves, carved from after you've gone or shaped…

— Anonymous

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

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

We must ask ourselves: Are we a confident, forward-looking nation that builds monuments - like DACA - to hope and determination? Or are we…

— Jay Inslee

To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ…

— Philip Johnson

Our public monuments are memorials to the Enlightenment.

— Mason Cooley

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

Most monuments are not something you're going to keep me out of. And I go to a lot of monuments.

— Rob Huebel

But monument themselves memorials need.

— George Crabbe