Good sense Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Claes Oldenburg

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

— Roger Zelazny

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

This monument is going to be built as a symbol.

— Bill Russell

The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I think that it is a great achievement to put a person on the moon. But to put a person on the earth-that is…

— Harrison Salisbury

Structure builds minds into great Monuments.

— Robert M. Hensel

I think about the personal accomplishment, but there's more of a sense of the grand achievement by all the people who could put this…

— Alan Shepard

I often write about the moon, and more often than not, it is to symbolise a person, or a quality.

— Gulzar

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