Quotes with monument

  • After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

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  • Cato the Elder After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Adolf Loos Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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  • Horace I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Anna Akhmatova I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.
    Anna Akhmatova
    Russian poet (1889 - 1966)
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  • Paul Harvey I've never seen a monument erected for a pessimist.
    Paul Harvey
    American radio broadcaster (1918 - 2009)
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  • Blake Farenthold It's said that you can tell a lot about someone by who opposes them. In the case of liberal pundit Bill Maher - a man who called America's actions cowardly in the wake of 9/11 and who mocked WWII veterans who wanted to visit the monument built in their honor - I wear his disapproval of me as a badge of honor.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Abbott Eliot Kittredge This bread and wine are the simple but eloquent monument to the infinite love of the Son of God, around which we gather with tender, tearful gratitude, because He loved us'so, and because we know that our garlands of affection and consecration are pleasing to Him.
    Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
    Abbott Eliot Kittredge
    American minister (1834 - 1912)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Bruce Jackson 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
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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