Top 265 Monument Quotes & Sayings

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

Sitting on the floor, I'd replay the past in my head. Funny, that's all I did, day after day after day for half a year, and I never tired of it. What I'd been through seemed so vast, with so many facets. Vast, but real, very real, which was why the experience persisted in towering before me, like a monument lit up at night. And the thing was, it was a monument to me.

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.

I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

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

Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.

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.

A monument's dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated.

Mama, don't forget to put a little monument on my tomb when I'm dead.

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.

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.

Great, I thought. We just blowtorched a national monument.

Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.

Ultimately, the roast turkey must be regarded as a monument to Boomer's love.

Ah, bien je prétends que les courbes des quatre areêtes du monument, telles que le calcul les a fournies, donneront une grand impression de force et de beauté. Well, I think the curves of the four pillars of the monument, as the calculations have provided them, give it a great sense of force and beauty.

My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

Europe is... a monument to the vanity of individuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure.

Let him who looks for a monument to Washington look around the United States. Your freedom, your independence, your national power, your prosperity, and your prodigious growth are a monument to him.

Live a life as a monument to your soul.

The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.

If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.

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.

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.

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.

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

Lets build a monument for the veto. Lets build a monument for impotence and incapacity.

I like the word monument, because the word monument is a Latin word.

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

I love the resource of the Internet. I use it all the time. Anything I'm writing - for example, if I'm writing a scene about Washington D.C. and I want to know where this monument is, I can find it right away, I can get a picture of the monument, it just makes your life so much easier, especially if you're writing fiction. You can check stuff so much quicker, and I think that's all great for writers.

There was movement along the fringe of Chauncey's vision, and he snapped his head to the left. At first glance what appeared to be a large angel topping a nearby monument rose to full height. Neither stone nor marble, the boy had arms and legs. His torso was naked, his feet were bare, and peasant trousers hung low on his waist. He hopped down from the monument, the ends of his hair dripping rain. It slid down his face, which was dark as a Spaniard's.

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

This monument is going to be built as a symbol.

If I have a monument in this world, it is my son.

Every kindness we have done is a monument built in our name in the heart of God!

Here was a monument, in fieldstone, to the art of family life.

Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.

Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti.

I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.

The redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down--vast monument of strength.

The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man.

It's very hard to go to Monument Valley and not think of John Ford's films.

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

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.

But monument themselves memorials need.

I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass.

Take the stones people throw at you, and use them to build a monument

The Indians, they don't fully understand that a lot of the things that they currently take for granted on those lands, they won't be able to do if it's made clearly into a monument or a wilderness. Once you put a monument there, you do restrict a lot of things that could be done, and that includes use of the land... Just take my word for it.

With all the stones being thrown against me you could build a monument!

A tomb is a monument placed on the limits of two worlds.

The Taj Mahal is a monument to love in all cultures.

There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument

The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.

Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands; he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty.

Washington and Lincoln mean as much to us as any two men could mean to a civilization, a people, and age, but I told Mr. Coolidge when he dedicated this monument that this rock is being carved with a monument that will outlive our government.

But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye.

When I spoke at the St. Lawrence Seaway ceremonies in 1969, I borrowed some words from the monument there which I had joined Queen Elizabeth in dedicating just 10 years before. That monument, as its inscription puts it, 'bears witness to the common purpose of two nations whose frontiers are the frontiers of friendship, whose ways are the ways of freedom, whose works are the works of peace'.

My attitude is, a monument, a statue, ought to signify unity instead of division.