The Monument Quotes

The Monument Quote of the day

Bury my body and don't build any monument. Keep my hands out so the people know the one who won the world had nothing in hand when he died.

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

I have created nothing really beautiful, really lasting, but if I can inspire one of these youngsters to develop the talent I know they possess, then my monument will be in their work.

When you hear of a notorious sinner, instead of thinking you do well to be angry, beg of Jesus Christ to convert, and make him a monument of his free grace.

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.

Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.

The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between the Crees and the Beavers.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

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.

Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids.

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

There's as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail.

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

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

If you go to Gettysburg and take the time, maybe take a tour, maybe just drive around, read some of the monuments, read some of the plaques, you will come away changed.

Live a life as a monument to your soul.

There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument

The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.

Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

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

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

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

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

[Chicago]: This vicious, stinking zoo, this mean-grinning, mace-smelling boneyard of a city: an elegant rockpile of a monument to everything cruel and stupid and corrupt in the human spirit.

Here were decent godless people; Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.

If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.

To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday's hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can't build a monument to past problems and fail forward.

When I am dead, I will not hurt anymore, will it Mama?...When I am dead, build me a little monument of stones in the woods.

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

The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.

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

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

Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.

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

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

The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.

The city of Hiroshima stands as more than a monument to massive death and destruction. It stands as a living testament to the necessity for progress toward nuclear disarmament.

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

I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his compassion.

nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of available light and set to the movement of possible music

Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief

If I have done any honorable exploit, that is my monument; but if I have done none, all your statues will signify nothing.

A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.

No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.

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

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

The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.