Monument Quotes

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Iron, Chains That Bind, Memorial

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

  Irving Berlin

  Positive, Music, Death

  Title of song (1927)

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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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  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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• Structure builds minds into great Monuments.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Ideas, Mind, Structure

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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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• The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Power, Wit

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1841). “The works of Francis Bacon, lord chancellor of England”, p.534

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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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• 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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• 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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• We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?

  Francis Bacon

  Wisdom, Loss, Hands

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Advancement of Learning”, p.61, Modern Library

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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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• 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

  Memories, Men, Mind

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.139

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• Our public monuments are memorials to the Enlightenment.

  Mason Cooley

  Memorial, Enlightenment

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• Sadly, a prize for peace is a rarity in this world. Most nations have monuments or memorials to war, bronze salutations to heroic battles, archways of triumph. But peace has no parade, no pantheon of victory.

  Kofi Annan

  War, Memorial, Victory

  Kofi Annan's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2001.

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

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, Moments, Existence

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.120, Beacon Press

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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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• Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism

  Walter Benjamin

  Inspirational, Civilization, Barbarism

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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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