Eternal Quote by James Gates Percival

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

... I see the green earth covered with the works of man or with the ruins of men’s work. The pyramids weigh down the…

— Selma Lagerlöf

That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,-- Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great…

— William C. Bryant

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

Structure builds minds into great Monuments.

— Robert M. Hensel

Monuments may be builded to express the affection or pride of friends, or to display their wealth, but they are only valuable for the…

— James A. Garfield

When smashing monuments, save the pedestals-they always come in handy.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

But monument themselves memorials need.

— George Crabbe

History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns,…

— Washington Irving

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another…

— Joseph Joubert

Our public monuments are memorials to the Enlightenment.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Pericles