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The green spaces in Pyongyang were immense and many in number, but not as immense as the monuments.
— David Baldacci
I think that some people get wrapped up in their own egos. They need to see certain album sales and certain monuments.
— Solange Knowles
The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
— Lew Wallace
Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.
— James Russell Lowell
People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon. — Vanna Bonta
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.
— Robert Smithson
In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have crumbled.
— Walter Benjamin
The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ... and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.
— Francis Bacon
The towers of removal boxes throw shadows across the hall, like monuments to everything that is now absent
— Fredrik Backman
What the masses want are monuments.
— Jean Drapeau
With monuments as with men, position means everything.
— Honore De Balzac
And once we die, what we leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. [Pericles]
— Michelle Moran
The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
— Francis Bacon
Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive.
— Joyce Carol Oates
The highest monuments of human civilization accept its ironies and lend their eternity to its mischievous pranks.
— Victor Hugo
Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
— Thomas Fuller
Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
— Alexander Pope
She walked about disdainfully, unwilling to be enthusiastic over monuments of uncertain authorship or date.
— E. M. Forster
Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
— Kin Hubbard
The bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow.
— Hermann Hesse
Monuments obtain their full worth through their complete use.
— Evangelos Venizelos
An architect does not need to spend his whole career making monuments for rich people.
— Shigeru Ban
It is certainly true that 'actions speak louder than words,' but words become as monuments to thoughts.
— Anton Szandor LaVey
Most monuments are not something you're going to keep me out of. And I go to a lot of monuments.
— Rob Huebel
For this reason the bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow. That
— Hermann Hesse
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.
— Franz Grillparzer
Who chose burial monuments? Were the wishes of the deceased taken into consideration? It was a subject I'd never considered before.
— Susan Hubbard
Our public monuments are memorials to the Enlightenment.
— Mason Cooley
But I shall spare her. On the ancient monuments of barbarism and despotism I will inscribe great words of justice and mercy
— Leo Tolstoy
The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force.
— Vladimir Putin
I wandered among the monuments - blank monuments, monuments in memory of nothing so far.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Monuments are for the living, not the dead.
— Frank Wedekind
Brave deeds are the monuments of brave men.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
— Edmund Spenser
But leaders need to be mostly dead. People want solid monuments to cling to, not confused men like themselves.
— Alasdair Gray
Monuments are for the living, not for the dead.
— Frank Wedekind
Your deeds are your monuments.
— R.J. Palacio
Monuments make momentous men immortal, but more memorable are mortal men making mere moments monumental.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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[Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology.
— Georges Cuvier
Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments.
— Antonio Gaudi
After independence was gained, one of the first Acts passed by the Greek government was for the protection and preservation of national monuments.
— Melina Mercouri
Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.
— Steven Grayhm
Relationships are monuments build on lies
— Dan Savage
Yeah! I went to the set of Monuments Men.
— Don Cheadle
I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments.
— Jean-Andre De Luc
Monuments of historic achievement
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
People create all kind of fancy watches and clocks, never stopping to realize they're building monuments to the greatest of all thieves.
— K. Martin Beckner
I often wonder why, when governments and communities erect monuments to heroes, they forget to erect one to the honour of the Pioneer.
— Frederick De La Fosse
We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they're gone.
— Richard Paul Evans
Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.
— William Hazlitt