Brooklyn bridge Quote by Lori Baird

Washington and Lincoln mean as much to us as any two men could mean to a civilization, a people, and age, but I told…

— Gutzon Borglum

“The Washington Monument is just one part of the original design - there were due to be another thirty or so columns and statues…

— Jack Goldstein

We need to build a beautiful granite and bronze monument in our nation's capital to honor American heroes, unsung American heroes. And those unsung…

— Bernard Goldberg

Don't take anything for granite. That's what tombstones are made of.

— John R. Erickson

“These statues are not just stone and metal. They are not just innocent remembrances of a benign history. These monuments purposefully celebrate a fictional,…

— Mitch Landrieu

Stone Mountain Memorial is the greatest project of its sort ever conceived. It should be finished, because it represent an idea as deep, as…

— Gutzon Borglum

“on the front of the white marble tomb was the inscription: Here rests in honored glory, an American soldier, known but to God.”

— Marc Cameron

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

— Claes Oldenburg

“They passed a succession of granite monuments to the conquering magicians of the late Victorian age and the fallen heroes of the Great War,…

— Jonathan Stroud

“The Minneapolis City Hall is not a pretty building. A pile of red granite, a sullen nineteenth-century Romanesque lump, it squats amid the glittering…

— John Sandford

But monument themselves memorials need.

— George Crabbe

“As a volunteer for the Military History Center, he visited Arlington whenever he was in town, recovering items that had been left on headstones.…

— Susan Wiggs