Memorial Quotes · Page 7

We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be…

— Blaise Pascal

I had a relationship with John Wooden. I spoke at his memorial service.

— Ben Howland

Thanks Veterans of all stripes and services, this country wouldn't be here if not for you. Happy Veterans Day.

— Anonymous

All love, respect and honor to Veterans and their families. Your sacrifice does not go unnoticed.

— Anonymous

Dearest son, your courage and patriotism brings great pride and honor to our family. I wish you a very happy Veterans Day!

— Anonymous

What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

This is what a memorial is: standing still, staring at something that isn’t ther

— David Levithan

They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.

— Francis Marion Crawford

137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed -…

— Doc Hastings

“Marshall wished he knew what to call her, wished he could memorialize her somehow. There was dignity in eulogies, in little ribbons…

— Aaron Dries

Sadly, a prize for peace is a rarity in this world. Most nations have monuments or memorials to war, bronze salutations to…

— Kofi Annan

While there are towns and cities still planning Memorial Day parades, many have not held a parade in decades. Some think the…

— Allen West

In the godforsaken, obscene quicksand of life, there is a deafening alleluia rising from the souls of those who weep, and of…

— Ann Weems

I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to…

— Maya Lin

I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that…

— Maya Lin

It's about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy and how it changed…

— Daniel Libeskind

Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed…

— Malcolm Fraser

Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less…

— Thomas Jefferson

The [Vietnam War Memorial] Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because…

— Adrienne Rich

When we ponder that vast throng who have died honorably defending home and hearth, we contemplate those immortal words, 'Greater love hath…

— Thomas S. Monson

Mr. Franzen said he and Mr. Wallace, over years of letters and conversations about the ethical role of the novelist, had come…

— Jonathan Franzen

How often we have had cause to regret that the histrionic art, of all the fine arts the most intense in its…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to…

— A. A. Gill

All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was…

— George Orwell

With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Even though I couldn't make the memorial today I just couldn't say goodbye to her.

— Ritu Ghatourey

We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

— John F. Kennedy

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

And there's the Victoria Memorial, built as a memorial to Victoria.

— David Dimbleby

They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Remembering your courage, strength, and Patriotism on today and always! Happy Veterans Day, soldier.

— Anonymous

The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.

— William Westmoreland

On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!

— Thomas William Parsons

Don't forget who your heroes are, what they mean to you, and why they mean that to you.

— Gale Harold

I have asked to have no funeral, and no memorial service. I hate other people's and would certainly not appreciate my own.

— Charles Saatchi

If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.

— Duke of Wellington

Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.

— Henry Waxman

“In the end, we all inherit a stone, after life’s waves have rolled over us—and hopefully, she’ll write upon it”

— John j Geddes

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

— Bob Riley

Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids.

— James Gates Percival