#monument

This monument is going to be built as a symbol. ↗

— Bill Russell

#going #monument #symbol

Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years ago doing people. I couldn't get interested in it. And I did hundreds of photographs of details of the monuments as sculpture. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#along #asia #began #camera #details

I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#become #family #i #i think #kind

People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others. ↗

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#come #contacts #easily #engage #freedom

You see, greatness for a state doesn't require some huge monument for all to see. It is not a journey to a particular destination - but a commitment to follow a course of constant and never-ending improvement. ↗

— Sonny Perdue

#constant #course #destination #follow #greatness

It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.' ↗

— Pat Robertson

#been #god #great #great nation #look

Monuments are for the living, not the dead. ↗

— Frank Wedekind

#living #monuments

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

#before #endured #here #hours #hundred

We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental at all by any standards. ↗

— Christo

#art #chicago #contemporary #contemporary art #created

I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#american #because #become #force #had