A Quote by Maya Angelou
If I have a monument in this world, it is my son.
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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; that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of men.
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.
Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism
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.
If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.
Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At Adam, every time. We can't build a monument to a germ, but we can build one to Adam, who is in the way to turn myth in in fifty years and be entirely forgotten in two hundred. We can build a monument and save his name to the world forever, and we'll do it!
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.
There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument
The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the world to receive him from her.
This bread and wine are the simple but eloquent monument to the infinite love of the Son of God, around which we gather with tender, tearful gratitude, because He loved us'so, and because we know that our garlands of affection and consecration are pleasing to Him.
Most legal scholars and historians agree that the Antiquities Act does not give the president the authority to revoke previous national monument designations, but a president can change the boundaries of a national monument.
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