Building Quote by Tommy Douglas

This monument is going to be built as a symbol.

— Bill Russell

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

— Claes Oldenburg

I don't want a monument. We don't build monuments; we build God's Kingdom.

— Reinhard Bonnke

Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere "survivals" - as funereal urns carved on memorial monuments.…

— Ambrose Bierce

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

I think statues are great; they show what great people would look like if a bird sh*t all over them.

— Demetri Martin

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.

— William Hazlitt

MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated.

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— Roger Zelazny

But monument themselves memorials need.

— George Crabbe

The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.

— Victor Hugo

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

— Rob Huebel