Affection Quote by James A. Garfield

Monuments obtain their full worth through their complete use.

— Evangelos Venizelos

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

— Claes Oldenburg

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

— Rob Huebel

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

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

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

— Pericles

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

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of…

— Marguerite Gardiner

It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument, and to convey some knowledge of us to the…

— Montgomery Schuyler

Monuments, like men, submit to fate.

— Alexander Pope

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

— Roger Zelazny