Kazakhstan Quote by Nursultan Nazarbayev

“You are either Ataturk's turk or Erdogan's turk, you cannot be both.”

— Abhijit Naskar

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

— Claes Oldenburg

“Your deeds are your monuments.”

— R.J. Palacio

“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

“I recognized the great monument from the illustration in the copy of /The Jungle Book/ that my mother kept in the top drawer of…

— Lee Siegel

“The greater the monument, the greater the man. The stone the Greeks quarry for his grave is huge and white, stretching up to the…

— Madeline Miller

“Had I been told Istanbul used to be a poorer, smaller and happier city, I might not have believed it, but that’s what my…

— Orhan Pamuk

The Taj, the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Cracao Basilica and Polish church are some monuments that hold a special place in my memory.

— Shaan

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 knew that taking down the monuments was going to be tough, but you elected me to do the right thing, not the easy…

— Mitch Landrieu

“We used to be brothers and sisters here. Kurdish, did not know he was. Turkmenians, Germans, they all existed here but never were proud…

— Orhan Pamuk

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