Top Monuments Quotes
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.
Robert Smithson
I'm thrilled of the acceptance I get abroad. The people are so hearty, warm and grateful and I feel privileged having seen so many countries and some of the greatest monuments.
Daniel Radcliffe
The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought.
Henry Waxman
The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
Edmund Spenser
Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that.
Bruce Jackson
Henry Waxman 
Joel Kotkin 
Nathaniel Hawthorne 
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Maya Lin 
Bruce Babbitt 
Marguerite Gardiner 
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They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and eventually to find their way out of the great, gray federal wilderness.
Hugh Sidey 
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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
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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.
Tommy Douglas
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As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.
Karl Philipp Moritz
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Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
Kin Hubbard
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My hope lies with people who never go to Washington except to see the monuments.
Joel Kotkin
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Popular Monuments Authors
Thomas FullerKin HubbardMaya LinPhyllis SchlaflyNathaniel HawthorneBruce JacksonRobert SmithsonLee H. HamiltonBen ShahnBruce BabbittMahmoud AhmadinejadStanislaw LecKarl Philipp Moritz
PericlesMarguerite GardinerDick DurbinEdmund SpenserHugh SideyLew WallaceHenry WaxmanFrank WedekindTommy DouglasDaniel RadcliffeVincente FoxJoel Kotkin
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