The Monument Quotes

One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon.

The monument of death will outlast the memory of the dead. The Pyramids do not tell the tale which was confided to them; the living fact commemorates itself.

I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.

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

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.

The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: 'If you seek his monument, look around.'

Sculpture may be almost anything: a monument, a statue, an old coin, a bas-relief, a portrait bust, a lifelong struggle against heavy odds.

I hate it when people let me down, when things are temporary. I think that's why I want to be an architect." "To build something permanent," I said. "A monument to last a thousand years.

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

The hunter died when he achieved supremacy. Perhaps the death of the hunter will be the long monument to interglacial man. We denied a future to our sucessor beings.

The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy. The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and acts survive and leave an indelible stamp upon his race.

Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.

I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.

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

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 young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief

It was a small church. No large cathedral towers overshadowed the purpose of the house of worship. It was a monument to faith rather than a monument to man’s triumph over nature.

The father who has selflessly poured himself into the life of his children may leave no other monument than that of his children. But as for a life well lived, no other monument is necessary.