Monument Quotes

• Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

  Joseph Joubert

  Iron, Chains That Bind, Memorial

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• Live a life as a monument to your soul.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Motivation, Soul

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• Take the stones people throw at you, and use them to build a monument

  Ratan Tata

  People, Use, Stones

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Success, Death

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• Structure builds minds into great Monuments.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Ideas, Mind, Structure

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• No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well as facts.

  Wallace Stegner

  Yarn, Fiction, Legends

  Wallace Earle Stegner (1995). “Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West”, Random House Value Pub

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• I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments.

  Jean-Andre Deluc

  Science, Earth, Geology

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• The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.

  Irving Berlin

  Positive, Music, Death

  Title of song (1927)

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  What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

  Pericles

  Life, Education, Appreciation

  "Flicker to Flame: Living with Purpose, Meaning, and Happiness". Book by Jeffrey Thompson Parker, October 2006.

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• Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

  Thomas Fuller

  Memories, House, Mind

  Thomas Fuller (1840). “The Holy State and the Profane State”, p.140

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• I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am trying to do more than anything else is to observe life.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Trying, Photographer

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• There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument

  Robert Musil

  World, Invisible, This World

  Robert Musil (2012). “Posthumous Papers of a Living Author”, p.50, Archipelago

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• Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

  Frank Wedekind

  Frank Wedekind (2013). “Spring Awakening”, p.39, A&C Black

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• 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

  Love, Men, Compassion

  Alfred Armand Montapert (1982). “Inspiration & motivation”, Prentice Hall Direct

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• Monuments, like men, submit to fate.

  Alexander Pope

  Fate, Men, Submit

  Alexander Pope (1849). “Letters of Alexander Pope Works and Arranged Expresly for the Use Young People”, p.70

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• Our public monuments are memorials to the Enlightenment.

  Mason Cooley

  Memorial, Enlightenment

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• The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.

  Madame de Stael

  Sight, Architecture, Approach

  "Corinne, or Italy". Book by Madame de Stael, 1807.

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• A tomb is a monument placed on the limits of two worlds.

  Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

  Two, World, Limits

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• Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.

  William Hazlitt

  Genius, Behinds

  William Hazlitt (1870). “The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.162

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• Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism

  Walter Benjamin

  Inspirational, Civilization, Barbarism

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• An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

  Clarence Darrow

  Ideas, Cathedrals, Inherit The Wind

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  A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.

  Mark Twain

  War, Names, Memorial

  Mark Twain, Paul Fatout (1997). “Mark Twain Speaks for Himself”, p.146, Purdue University Press

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• Every kindness we have done is a monument built in our name in the heart of God!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Kindness, Heart, Names

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• Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

  John Lothrop Motley

  Pyramids, Deeds, Stones

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• Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Hurt, Survival, Ifs

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