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Goes a long way to allowing us to demonstrate that many, if not most, Site Q monuments were looted from La Corona.

Marcello Canuto

Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

John L. Motley

We have been buying a lot of contemporary art, but we add great monuments like this whenever we can.

John Elderfield

In the random way that democracy scatters art and monuments among its leaders, Lyndon Baines Johnson has a winner.

Ada Louise Huxtable

It's great. For a curator, the two great thrills are, first, finding and acquiring real monuments of art. The other part is being able to hang them.

John Elderfield

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

Frank Wedekind

Our goal is to recognize as many monuments as we can.

Dave Karwatsky

[The prisons are] the monuments of Australia-the Paestums [of] an extraordinary time-an effort to exile en masse a whole class.

Robert Hughes

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

Lew Wallace

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

I have been told, 'good idea,' but I just haven't found the money. I have $2,000 and probably would need $20,000 to get all of the monuments built.

Larry Thomas

Monuments obtain their full worth through their complete use.

Evangelos Venizelos

I got to thinking, 'Hey, this is something I've always been interested in -- military history, ... It's not so much building more monuments but making sure the ones we do have are maintained correctly.

Zell Miller