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What the masses want are monuments.
But monument themselves memorials need.
Yeah! I went to the set of Monuments Men.
Relationships are monuments build on lies
This monument is going to be built as a symbol.
Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.
I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.
I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.
The Taj Mahal is a monument to love in all cultures.
I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.
Our public monuments are memorials to the Enlightenment.
Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive.
Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.
I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass.
Monuments obtain their full worth through their complete use.
Here was a monument, in fieldstone, to the art of family life.
Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.
I like the word monument, because the word monument is a Latin word.
I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.
With all the stones being thrown against me you could build a monument!
Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.
I don't want a monument. We don't build monuments; we build God's Kingdom.
Ultimately, the roast turkey must be regarded as a monument to Boomer's love.
The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.
My attitude is, a monument, a statue, ought to signify unity instead of division.
The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
Lets build a monument for the veto. Lets build a monument for impotence and incapacity.
Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments.
I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
A monument's dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated.
The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.
Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his monument.
'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.
I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.
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.
Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never.
If I have done any honorable exploit, that is my monument; but if I have done none, all your statues will signify nothing.
The Lusitania is a monument to this optimism, to the hubris of the era. I love that, because where there is hubris, there is tragedy.
On Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va., there are statues of five Confederate luminaries and then, incongruously in this company, one of Arthur Ashe.
The San Gabriel monument expands our natural heritage, but there is more in need of safeguarding - extraordinary places like Utah's Greater Canyonlands.
At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.
Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.
The earliest dated monument yet discovered in Tikal and all of the Maya lowlands, Stela 29, has a Long Count date of 8.12.14.13.15, which translates to A.D. 292.
When you think blues, you think BB King. Even a young kid can look at a picture of BB King and say, 'the blues.' The man is more than a musician. He's a monument.
I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.
I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.