Each of the patriots whom we remember on this day was first a beloved son or daughter, a brother or sister, or… — George H. W. Bush 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
Well, I think one doesn't really have to invent this memorial space, because it is already there. And it is speaking with… — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
I think I needed to really move past my first public work as memorialist, and be equally balanced. It's a bit unusual,… — Maya Lin 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
I hope there will be no effort to put up a shaft or any monument of that sort in memory of me… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
I hope that the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be a life-altering experience that inspires every American… — Yvette Clarke Copy Share Image
Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids. — James Gates Percival Copy Share Image
I have been living in Germany for one year and my impression is that people here are on a quest for the… — Liao Yiwu Copy Share Image
What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The people who visit the [Lincoln] memorial always look like an advertisement for democracy, so bizarrely, suspiciously diverse that one time I… — Sarah Vowell 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
Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower… — Silas Weir Mitchell Copy Share Image
But it is fit that the Past should be dark; though the darkness is not so much a quality of the past… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
“I don't want to be memorized for everyone. I want to stay real,endless and inchangeable for my parents, kids and their descendants.” — Alexander Zalan Copy Share Image
After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
On my recent trip to Israel, I had the opportunity to visit Yad Vashem, Israel's national Holocaust memorial, and reaffirm our collective… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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