Top 255 Monuments Quotes & Sayings

When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.

Structure builds minds into great Monuments.

Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labor's monuments and statues are when a young person can find a job, when a person with disability can get access to the ordinary life that others take for granted.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

Relationships are monuments build on lies

America has no monuments to ideas; her monuments are erected to individuals.

Are there any monuments built to demagogues? I just don't think so.

Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labors monuments and statues are when a young person can find a job, when a person with disability can get access to the ordinary life that others take for granted.

Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

The Greeks, the Italians, and the Indians, from whom we get our ideas, erect monuments to ideas; we erect ours to men, and of such monuments we have an oversupply.

We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they're gone.

In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have crumbled.

In America, we have holidays and monuments that celebrate heroes from our past, most of whom have legacies that are settled.

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

Nothing is worse than a Yankee telling a Southerner that his monuments don't matter.

[Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology.

It's no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the YankeeStadium of ancient times.

At a certain point in history monuments became associated with kitsch, (it had never previously been so) and one might well ask why this unforeseen aesthetic and ethnic debasement of their values came about, or why monuments have not adapted to the times. Perhaps, instead of evoking authentic religious, patriotic or mystical sentiments, they evoke only the customary ersatz for these sentiments and have suffered the fate of becoming sentimental.

Monuments obtain their full worth through their complete use.

What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.

We must ask ourselves: Are we a confident, forward-looking nation that builds monuments - like DACA - to hope and determination? Or are we a nation that is turned inward, lauding monuments to intolerance and division?

a. Critics: people who make monuments out of books. b. Biographers: people who make books out of monuments. c. Poets: people who raze monuments. d. Publishers: people who sell rubble. e. Readers: people who buy it.

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future

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

I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments.

'Monuments Men' is not a docudrama. It's not a documentary.

What the masses want are monuments.

After independence was gained, one of the first Acts passed by the Greek government was for the protection and preservation of national monuments.

Yeah! I went to the set of Monuments Men.

Our public monuments are memorials to the Enlightenment.

Excuses are tools of the incompetent used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness

Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.

Delhi is fabulous - the roads, greenery, the monuments!

I am not an enthusiast when it comes to cities, preferring rolling scenery, wildlife and stars to museums, monuments, architecture and traffic.

Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

There are all kinds of monuments to adults - usually dead and usually white. But we don't often lift up the extraordinary work of children.

I am not concerned about my posthumous fame. Monuments are no good to the dead.

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

Coolness is temporary. You can't capture it or create it, it has to be discovered. It has to do with the people that are in a place, not with monuments or institutions. It's a momentary conjunction of personalities.

Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.

Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.

Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive.

People are quick to make monuments of anything they live long enough to control.

I am, in fact, enamored by Lucknow with all its minarets and its monuments. It is a place where you can get lost in the old world.

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

The bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow.

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.

With monuments as with men, position means everything.

The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments.

We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?

I feel like D.C. is one of the places in America that really holds on to history. The monuments inspire me, especially at night.

Monuments, like men, submit to fate.

An architect does not need to spend his whole career making monuments for rich people.