If I shouldn't be alive When the Robins come, Give the one in Red Cravat, A Memorial crumb. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers; Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I have had than that everyone should be jolly at my… — Lord Mountbatten Copy Share Image
All Americans should proudly pause on Veterans Day to express heartfelt thanks and esteem to the veterans of our land. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt. — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
Gone is not forgotten, but our lives cannot be a memorial. This city cannot be a memorial. This city has to be… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
At Concerned Veterans for America, we've made the case that the defense budget could be targeted for spending reform, but in a… — Pete Hegseth Copy Share Image
The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
My research, even before 1972, moved in directions beyond those cited for the Nobel Memorial Prize. Most of it, in one way… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Since every building and designed object is made of memory, every place can become a memorial for re-membering our lives and the… — Anthony Lawlor Copy Share Image
“I missed her so much that I wanted to build a hundred-foot memorial to her with my bare hands. I wanted to… — Max Porter Copy Share Image
Our legacy is really the lives we touch, the inspiration we give, altering someone's plan - if even for a moment -… — Carrie Hamilton Copy Share Image
I feel really bad for everyone who died on 9/11. Not just the people in the World Trade Center, Pentagon, or Flight… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
I watched American TV shows: Starsky & Hutch, Dallas, Rockford Files, Bonanza. And for many summers growing up, I worked on my… — Scott Raab Copy Share Image
Some will remember an image of a fire or story or rescue. Some will carry memories of a face and a voice… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side,… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
This was the first Memorial Day [Monday, May 1st, 1865]. African Americans invented Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina. What you have… — David W. Blight Copy Share Image
“The only time they ever throw anything away is when it's really and truly broken, and then they make a big deal… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
We stand united in honoring our Veterans as the true heroes they are during National Salute to Veterans Patients Week. Their sacrifices… — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
To all who have served in our military, thank you. The sacrifices you made in honor and duty to our country are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If liberals had been in charge of the Arizona memorial, it would probably have featured an exhaustive exhibit about the internment of… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
One should never allow chaos to develop in order to avoid going to war, because one does not avoid a war but… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“It was as much a memorial to them both as it was a reminder that loving someone, loving anyone, even those long… — Deborah Reed Copy Share Image
The war in vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagreements that separated each side continue, to… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“I thought I saw you today, but that was just hope. I heard the sound of your voice in the last wave… — Broms The Poet Copy Share Image
“Some people approached me saying they would like to raise a monument to me like they do in Turkmenistan for Turkmenbashy, I… — Nursultan Nazarbayev Copy Share Image
Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
Death is not the end Death can never be the end. Death is the road. Life is the traveller. The Soul is… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
I find the English amazing how they got over 7/7. There were no multiple memorials with people sobbing as they would have… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
“When our thoughts are stammering in our mind, and memorial failure dumbs down our passion for life, a deep dive in the… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Our goal is peace. We can gain that peace by strengthening our alliances, by speaking candidly about the dangers before us, by… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
'Reach for a (cigarette) instead of a sweet' - ...advertising slogan..(of) Albert Lasker, (with) Mary Lasker, health philanthropist, and originator of the… — Ralph W. Moss Copy Share Image
For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own… — Pericles Copy Share Image
The whole memorial is for different senses... seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling. I probably would have come up with something different if I… — Lawrence Halprin Copy Share Image
Happy Memorial Day and, as always, thank you to all veterans and those currently enlisted for your service to this great nation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have always been absurdly, ridiculously tall. To give you an idea- when we went on school trips to Interesting and Improving… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
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