«Monuments and Sites»

I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments.

Jean-Andre de Luc

Footprints of history on the pages of time.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

Joseph Joubert

I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It’s all part of the package.

Chaske Spencer

It’s very important that we keep these special, wild places. It defines the United States. Imagine our country without our national parks and our monuments. Here in California, imagine if you didn’t have in Southern Cal the Channel Islands or the great Highway 1, Big Sur up to Point Reyes up to the Redwood country.

Douglas Brinkley

Man’s drive for self-expression, which over the centuries has built his monuments, does not stay within set bounds; the creations which yesterday were the detested and the obscene become the classics of today.

Matthew Tobriner

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

Thomas Fuller

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

Frank Wedekind

Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man’s greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked.

Vicente Fox

To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own.

Philip Johnson

There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation’s own history, whether that history is recorded in books or embodied in customs, institutions and monuments.

Joseph Anderson

Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental.

Michael Mandelbaum

The monument means a world of memories, a world of deeds, a world of tears, and a world of glories. * * * By the subtle chemistry that no man knows, all the blood that was shed by our brethren, all the lives that were devoted, all the grief that was felt, at last crystallized itself into granite, rendering immortal the great truth for which they died, and it stands there today.

James Abram Garfield