Lives of others Quote by Pericles

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved on stone momuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”

— Pericles

“What might have faded away naturally over time became etched in stone”

— Anonymous

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

— Rob Huebel

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

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

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere…

— Pericles

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

— Roger Zelazny

There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that…

— Andy Goldsworthy

A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.

— Andy Goldsworthy

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

— Claes Oldenburg

Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.

— Horace

“The legends on the tombstones are eventually worn away as the stone is eroded by rain and wind and centuries. Better to slip away…

— Barbara Quick