Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marguerite Gardiner

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?

Mike Stevens

I'd characterize it this way: It is a monument to poor taste.

Huston Street

That says everything right there. That's how monumental that win was.

Claes Oldenburg

I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.

Michael Ramsey

This is a monumental problem. It overshadows all the other problems we have.

Frank Wedekind

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

Fabien Barthez

He's a monument and he's my friend. For me he's the player of the century.

Robert Lowell

The monument sticks like a fishbone / in the city's throat.

John L. Motley

Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.