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Great. We just blow torched a national monument.
— Rick Riordan
And the wind shall say: 'Here were decent Godless people:Their only monument the asphalt road
And a thousand lost golf balls. — T. S. Eliot
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You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
A great city with water barriers and no bridges is like a skyscraper with no elevators. Bridges are a monument to progress.
— Joseph Straus
Excuse is the tool of the incompetent. A monument of nothingness, and those that use it are not wise.
— Paul Adefarasin
There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument
— Robert Musil
Often the crowd does not recognize a leader until he has gone, and then they build a monument for him with the stones they threw at him in life.
— J. Oswald Sanders
My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never.
— Craig Brown
Thump Milton loomed over Ree, a fabled man, his face a monument of Ozark stone, with juts and angles and cold shaded parts the sun never touched.
— Daniel Woodrell
James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.
— Edward Abbey
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.
— William Hazlitt
I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.
— Will Harvey
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism
— Walter Benjamin
Lets build a monument for the veto. Lets build a monument for impotence and incapacity.
— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
If I have a monument in this world, it is my son.
— Maya Angelou
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.
— George Jean Nathan
The shop was a monument to uninhibited human depravity, the kind that scars souls with permanent shadows. I
— Bobby Adair
I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.
— Claes Oldenburg
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.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands; he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty.
— Andrew Jackson
My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If a man do not erect in this age his own tomb ere he dies, he shall live no longer in monument than the bell rings and the widow weeps
— William Shakespeare
I would hear the song of the columns and visualize in the pure sky the monument of a melody.
— Paul Valery
Sculpture may be almost anything: a monument, a statue, an old coin, a bas-relief, a portrait bust, a lifelong struggle against heavy odds.
— Malvina Hoffman
Most monuments are not something you're going to keep me out of. And I go to a lot of monuments.
— Rob Huebel
emotion. I was a monument to our theft. I was an iconoclast.
— Mike Avitabile
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.
— Alfred Armand Montapert
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North Carolina has a monument to [Peter Francisco], and no one knows that. That's the kind of stuff that drives me.
— Travis Bowman
A group photo of the top ten journalists in America on any given day would be a monument to human ugliness.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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.
— Alexei Nikolaevich
A tomb is a monument placed on the limits of two worlds.
— Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre
Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.
— Leon Trotsky
Mama, don't forget to put a little monument on my tomb when I'm dead
— Alexei Nikolaevich
Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.
— Maria Edgeworth
A Sonnet is amoment's
monument,
Memorial from the
Soul's eternity
To one dead
deathless hour. — Dante Gabriel Rossetti
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed ... a race for rent.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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.
— George William Curtis
Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids.
— James Gates Percival
Europe is ... a monument to the vanity of individuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure.
— Margaret Thatcher
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.
— Dwight L. Moody
Make your life a monument of visions. Serving, caring, and sharing are the passions.
— Debasish Mridha
MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated.
— Ambrose Bierce
Here was a monument, in fieldstone, to the art of family life.
— Judith Thurman
The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.
— Pamela Anderson
'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.
— Claes Oldenburg
Every kindness we have done is a monument built in our name in the heart of God!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.
— Thomas Jefferson
Because I'm so big, you have to look at me. I think of myself as a monument. But sometimes I like to feel small.
— Shaquille O'Neal
If you know a lonely tree, go and visit it even if it takes miles to walk there! Because lonely tree is a great monument of strength!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
This monument is going to be built as a symbol.
— Bill Russell
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.
— Washington Irving
If any task is yet another brick set in the construction of my own monument, it is in all likelihood a brick confiscated from someone else's monument.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.
— Robert Lowell
The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument.
— Arthur Guiterman
I like a kid who holds nothing back.
— Emmy Laybourne
Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.
— George S. Patton
The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.
— Pliny The Younger
Live a life as a monument to your soul.
— Ayn Rand
One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon.
— Henry David Thoreau
