Thank you to every solider and veteran who have helped to defend our freedom and the greatest country on earth. Happy Veterans… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Flag still floats unblotted with defeat! But ah the blood that keeps its ripples red, The starry lives that keep its… — Rupert Hughes Copy Share Image
After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that… — Russ Carnahan Copy Share Image
Lighting a candle to remember Loved ones, Family & Friends lost to us this Memorial Day. You are always remembered - We… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Words are even more feeble on this Memorial Day, for the sight before us is that of a strong and good nation… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Stone Mountain Memorial is the greatest project of its sort ever conceived. It should be finished, because it represent an idea as… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
Your acts of selflessness and unconditional love for this country will never be forgotten. We salute our Veterans today and thank you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The camera's perspective exactly matches that of the assassin: it now shoots the tourists shooting their own memorial photos, and we can… — Joachim Schmid Copy Share Image
The United States' poetry emerged when there was a high literacy rate in the United States, even in the 19th century. People… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
When night falls over Washington, D.C., memorials, public buildings, and broad avenues become ethereal shapes in soft light and shadow. Floodlights, piercing… — Volkmar Wentzel Copy Share Image
If you're smart enough you realise that your possessions possess you in their turn. Collecting has a neurotic aspect. I find it… — Thomas Koerfer Copy Share Image
For a few ticks of the clock I am here, uncomprehending, attempting to make some record or memorial of this eternal passage,… — Louis J. Halle Copy Share Image
“He hadn't woken a day since my death when the day wasn’t something to get through. But the truth was, the memorial… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel… — Benjamin Harrison Copy Share Image
The more than 50,000 veterans in North Dakota and the more than 16 million veterans across our great country deserve our deepest… — Doug Burgum Copy Share Image
Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
They left no books , Memorial to their lonely thought In grey parishes: rather they wrote On men's hearts and in the… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
Their sacrifice was great, but not in vain. All Americans and every free nation on earth can trace their liberty to the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
In 2003, Congress authorized the construction of a visitor center for the Vietnam Memorial to help provide information and educate the public… — Dennis Cardoza Copy Share Image
But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
No tongue is able to declare the greatness of the love that Jesus bears to every soul: and therefore this Spouse, when… — Peter of Alcantara Copy Share Image
Holocaust Memorial Day is intended as an inclusive commemoration of all the individuals and communities who suffered as a result of the… — Jack Straw Copy Share Image
What we dedicate today is not a memorial to war, rather it's a tribute to the physical and moral courage that makes… — Bob Dole Copy Share Image
In the United States alone, we spend seven times as much on war as on education. There's something wrong there. On this… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I think we need to not look at sorrow and happiness as opposites that cannot co-exist. They can and do co-exist. I… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
If an instrument similar to a geiger-counter could be invented that counted moral judgements instead, we would learn to duck as people… — Charles Hampden-Turner Copy Share Image
Memorial Day gives us answers because we can reflect and seek spiritual guidance from the most selfless our country has ever known.… — Brian Mast Copy Share Image
Go to a nearby military cemetery and look at the American flags stuck on each grave and think of the person buried… — Cindy Sheehan Copy Share Image
Let us strive the more earnestly therefore to lengthen out our span of life-- life that is poured out like water and… — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
“I shouldn't have taken a vow of silence, I told myself. What did I want? Nothing much. Just a memorial. But what… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The black arrowed swoop of the moment swung high into the unceilinged future, ten, fifty, sixty years, may be: then, past seeing,… — Eric Rucker Eddison Copy Share Image
I'm sure many people who discover they are destined to be athletes before they know what kind, go through a period of… — Evonne Goolagong Cawley Copy Share Image
Memorial Day, the reason for it, fewer and fewer people know. It's just the first real weekend of summer, three-day weekend and… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
These days, when people are alone, or feel a moment of boredom, they tend to reach for a device. In a movie… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding… — Horace Copy Share Image
Today, the United States stands as a beacon of liberty and democratic strength before the community of nations. We are resolved to… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Happy Memorial Day! I give thanks to all the veterans that served our country. They all should get the honor that they… — Rasheed Bryant Copy Share Image
We sit at our consoles and play "Gears of War", but we don't see images from war. We don't turn on the… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
When New Orleans was flooded in August 2005, the rising water cut off Memorial Medical Centre, a community hospital that was holding… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
[Pitchblende] consists of a peculiar, distinct, metallic substance. Therefore its former denominations, pitch-blende, pitch-iron-ore, &c. are no longer applicable, and must be… — Martin Heinrich Klaproth Copy Share Image