Monument Quotes

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one. (William Hazlitt)
I have made a monument more lasting than bronze. View quote
Horace
The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also. View quote
Roger Zelazny
I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over the world, so the idea of patriotism is not very strong in me. My country is the country of Chekhov, Beethoven, Velasquez - writers I like, painters and artists I admire. View quote
António Lobo Antunes
Come let us mock at the great That had such burdens on the mind And toiled so hard and late To leave some monument behind, Nor thought of the leveling wind. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Are you going to be just kind of a walking monument to a job, or are you going to have some kind of really significant inner life of your own? Because the external things - the job, the house, the this, the that - do not really fill the place inside. View quote
Robertson Davies
The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
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. View quote
William Hazlitt
The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach. View quote
Ayn Rand
When I was young I once found a book in a Dutch translation, The 'Leaves of Grass'. It was the first time a book touched me by its feeling of freedom and open spaces, the way the poet spoke of the ocean by describing a drop of water in his hand. Walt Whitman was offering the world an open hand (now we call it democracy) and my 'Monument for Walt Whitman' became this open hand with mirrors, so you can see inside yourself. (Karel Appel)
The expense of a monument is superfluous; my memory will endure if my actions deserve it. View quote
Pliny the Younger
I am Providence, and Providence is myself-together, indissolubly as one, we stand thro' the ages; a fixt monument set aeternally in the shadow of Durfee's ice-clad peak! View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
Thus 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. View quote
Washington Irving
Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man. View quote
George S. Patton
The slow-rising central horror of "Watergate" is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something from it. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I knew that I shouldn't have, but I did it all the same; and there you have my epitaph, or one of them, because my grave is going to require a monument inscribed on all four sides with rueful mottoes, in small characters, set close together. View quote
Michael Chabon
But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose. View quote
Lafcadio Hearn
And the wind shall say: "Here were decent godless people: Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls." View quote
T. S. Eliot
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. (Rick Riordan)
Great, I thought. We just blowtorched a national monument. View quote
Rick Riordan
nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of available light and set to the movement of possible music. View quote
Carol Shields
I always wish the hotels were like they are in movies and TV shows, where if you're in Paris, right outside your window is the Eiffel Tower. In Egypt, the pyramids are right there. In the movies, every hotel has a monument right outside your window. My hotel rooms overlook the garbage dumpster in the back alley. View quote
Gilbert Gottfried
Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunities. His discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is his monument. View quote
Justin Winsor