A Quote by George Crabbe
But monument themselves memorials need.
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Those only deserve a monument who do not need one; that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of men.
A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.
I was hesitant to approach people. I'm socially awkward. But I was working on a number of memorials, and finally it dawned on me: These are memorials to people who wrote, so I should use their writing. That's how I started to quit.
It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.
Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands; he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty.
The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.
Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.
Why should the Eisenhower memorial be over twice the size of WWII Memorial? Why should it be so vast as to comfortably house two Lincoln Memorials, two Washington Monuments, and two Jefferson Memorials - all six at once?
Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism
I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.
The monument I want after I am dead is a monument with two legs going around the world-a saved sinner telling about the salvation of Jesus Christ.
Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.
If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.
A broken heart is a monument to a love that will never die; fulfillment is a monument to a love that is already on its deathbed.
The second assault on Fallujah was a monument to brutality and atrocity made in the United States of America. Like the Spanish city of Guernica during the 1930s, and Grozny in the 1990s Fallujah is our monument of excess and overkill.
It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America’s power. It has been the symbol of our great nation, we look at that monument and we say this is one nation under God.
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