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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

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

Within the shadows of honor, courage often walks in silence.
-Engraved on the monument Clay built — Lorraine Heath

Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ... and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time. — Francis Bacon

What the masses want are monuments. — Jean Drapeau

In the end, the only monument that matters may be the work of love we carve into the lives around us. — Sue Monk Kidd

Excuse is the tool of the incompetent. A monument of nothingness, and those that use it are not wise. — Paul Adefarasin

The hole left by the moon's tearing-free and monument to her exile; — Thomas Pynchon

Contemplated as one grand whole, astronomy is the most beautiful monument of the human mind; the noblest record of its intelligence. — Carl Sagan

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

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

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

At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence. — Viktor E. Frankl

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

Then was the monument called "Stonehenge," which stands, as all men know, upon the plain of Salisbury to this very day. — Knowles James Knowles

The ruins stood above the hissing traffic like some monument to doomed expectations. — Don DeLillo

Yeah! I went to the set of Monuments Men. — Don Cheadle

Every kindness we have done is a monument built in our name in the heart of God! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Ray Bannister started to build the guillotine the day Jerry Renault returned to Monument. — Robert Cormier

The shop was a monument to uninhibited human depravity, the kind that scars souls with permanent shadows. I — Bobby Adair

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

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

Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument. — Charles Caleb Colton

Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands; he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty. — Andrew Jackson

Worst thing would be that Darling killed her. And then he'll probably shoot me and add me to his monument in the yard. But — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Our public monuments are memorials to the Enlightenment. — Mason Cooley

Sometimes our experiences helps us build the monument that forms the base for what God wants us to do. — Bidemi Mark-Mordi

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

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

I would hear the song of the columns and visualize in the pure sky the monument of a melody. — Paul Valery

Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength. — William Hazlitt

A tomb is a monument placed on the limits of two worlds. — Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

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

The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument. — Madeleine De Scudery

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 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

A group photo of the top ten journalists in America on any given day would be a monument to human ugliness. — Hunter S. Thompson

North Carolina has a monument to [Peter Francisco], and no one knows that. That's the kind of stuff that drives me. — Travis Bowman

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

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

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

I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery. — Haile Gerima

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

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

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. — Alexander The Great

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

The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument. — Arthur Guiterman

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

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

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

After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one. — Cato The Elder

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

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

Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man. — George S. Patton

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

The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep. — Mark Strand

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

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

Lets build a monument for the veto. Lets build a monument for impotence and incapacity. — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

The redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down
vast monument of strength. — John Milton