Monuments quotes

Explore inspiring quotes about monuments from around the world. Discover the rich history and cultural significance behind these grand structures.

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?

- Marguerite Gardiner

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

- Pericles

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

When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.

- Stanislaw Lec