12 Movie Quotes about Monuments (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Mar 21, 2025

Memorable quotes about monuments, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 No resting! This monument celebrating my glory isn't gonna build itself. Move faster!

Mr. Lawrence as Plankton in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004)

2 For he did not wish tribute or song, nor monuments, nor poems of war and valor.

Gerard Butler as King Leonidas in 300

3 The tower. Grim monument to despair. Cold, cruel, forbidding.

Eric Blore as J. Thaddeus Toad in The Adventures Of Ichabod And Mr. Toad

4 Roger, you star-Spangled bonehead. -What? -You ruined a national monument.

Lou Hirsch as Baby Herman in Roger Rabbit Shorts

5 Look. These monuments are all ancient Roman relics. This is... What's wrong? -Our slums are just like this.

Bruce Lee as Tang Lung in The Way of the Dragon

6 Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man.

George C. Scott as General George Patton in Patton (1970)

7 So every man, woman and child who plants trees shall be able to say on coming as I have come toward the evening of life in all sincerity and truth: If you seek my monument, look around you. Thank you.

Gail M. Davis as Sally Brown in It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown

8 He's is a monument of respectability. -So's Grant's Tomb, but who wants to marry it?

Carole Lombard in The Moon's Our Home (1941)

9 'Ca use the streets was awful crowded with people looking at all the statues and monuments, and some of them people were loud and pushy.

Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump in Forrest Gump (1994)

10 A monument to the bored businessman.

Michael Keaton as Betelgeuse in Beetlejuice

12 Movie Quotes about Monuments (+ Sound Clips)

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