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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

You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

Louis B. Mayer came out west with $28.00, a box camera and an old lion. He built a monument to himself
the Bank of America. — Bob Hope

No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith. — Louis L'Amour

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

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

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

The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach. — Ayn Rand

The tractor sat as a monument to village exploitation. — Anonymous

A young woman in love always looks like Patience on a monument Smiling at Grief. — Jane Austen

Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism — Walter Benjamin

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

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

She is so naked and singular. She is the sum of yourself and your dream. Climb her like a monument, step after step. She is solid. — Anne Sexton

divine views in the entire country, so if you want to see what a true monument of manmade energy can be please check out the Taj Mahal! — Larry Phan

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

I have completed a monument more lasting than brass. — Horace

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

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

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

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 a
moment'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

His mother stood before him like a monument. He saw her great outline through the blur of his weakness and his passion. She made no movement at all. — Mervyn Peake

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

Another well-known Paris landmark is the Arc de Triomphe, a moving monument to the many brave women and men who have died trying to visit it. — Dave Barry

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

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

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

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

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

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. — Ralph Waldo Emerson