Buddhism Quote by Mason Cooley

But monument themselves memorials need.

— George Crabbe

Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.

— Henry Waxman

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

— Rob Huebel

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

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

— Claes Oldenburg

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

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

“I often wonder why, when governments and communities erect monuments to heroes, they forget to erect one to the honour of the Pioneer.”

— Frederick de la Fosse

The purpose of the memorial is to communicate the founding, expansion, preservation, and unification of the United States with colossal statues of Washington, Jefferson,…

— Gutzon Borglum

Monuments, like men, submit to fate.

— Alexander Pope

Since every building and designed object is made of memory, every place can become a memorial for re-membering our lives and the world around…

— Anthony Lawlor