#monument

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#dead #embroidery #expensive #grave #monument

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

— Stanislaw Lec

#come #handy #monuments #pedestals #save

It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely. ↗

— Ted Kulongoski

#choice #choose #commentary #face #future

But he said Blanket Hill should be a national monument. And so we came out of his chambers feeling, though while we had lost to the powers of darkness, we had at least shown one Federal Judge what the right path would have been. ↗

— William Kunstler

#blanket #came #chambers #darkness #federal

There are thousands of Ten Commandments plaques or monuments all over the country, and lawsuits to remove them have popped up in more than a dozen states. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#country #dozen #lawsuits #monuments #more

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

#art #arts #belongs #common #does

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience. ↗

— Tyrone Power

#done #i #lot #monument #patience

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