Memorial Quotes

A president cant go to every memorial service.

— Nancy Gibbs

A president can't go to every memorial service.

— Nancy Gibbs

Life can only be understood backwards.

— Mackenzie Astin

Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er.

— Anonymous

“We are born old enough to die.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

He broke through the barriers of the skies.

— William Herschel

Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?

— Anne Tyler

They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“We all die having lived a full life, even those who die while they are being born.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Happy Memorial Day to someone who would stab himself in the leg to avoid military service.

— Anonymous

Happy Memorial Day to someone who gets post-traumatic stress from watching Saving Private Ryan in HD.

— Anonymous

It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead.

— Anonymous

Memorial day: Remember those who fought for us in the past, those who are today and those who will win in the…

— Faith Barroa

Happy Memorial Day. To all the fabulous service men and women. Thanking you fabulously.

— Anonymous

Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all our service men and women past and present. You are not forgotten!

— Courteney Cox

There are no good-byes, where ever you'll be, you'll be in my heart.

— Anonymous

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

Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are…

— Anonymous

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

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

My research, even before 1972, moved in directions beyond those cited for the Nobel Memorial Prize. Most of it, in one way…

— Anonymous

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

Gone is not forgotten, but our lives cannot be a memorial. This city cannot be a memorial. This city has to be…

— David Levithan

When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from…

— Maya Lin

The decision to rely heavily on high-altitude air power, target urban infrastructure and repeatedly attack heavily populated towns and villages has reflected…

— Seumas Milne

“I have written minutely of much that we did, for it was my wish that somewhere there should be a memorial of…

— Tomás Ó Criomhthain

Canada is lacking two things. It's true. Don't make me say it again. The first is Olympic Heroes [...] The second thing…

— Kurt Angle

The Journal is not essentially a confession, a story about oneself. It is a Memorial. What does the writer have to remember?…

— Maurice Blanchot

I imagine if you had built the Newton Memorial outside Paris ... it would have undoubtedly shown the violence of 1870 and…

— Peter Greenaway

It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Ten years have passed since a perfect blue sky morning turned into the blackest of nights. Since then we've lived in sunshine…

— Michael Bloomberg

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

— Malcolm Fraser

“For The Fallen" With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. Flesh of her…

— Anonymous

“I am not, anymore, a Christian, but I am lifted and opened by any space with prayer inside it. I didn’t know…

— Mark Doty

Because Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama failed to provide a status of forces agreement and leave sufficient troops in there, we are…

— Mike Pence

Like every man who appears at an epoch which is historical and rendered famous by his works, Jesus Christ has a history,…

— Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Fertility says, "Can you relax and just let things happen?" I ask, does she mean, like disasters, like pain, like misery? Can…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The late Rev. Peter Gomes at The Memorial Church at Harvard was a true mentor to me when I was in college.…

— Seth Moulton

“Very few people know where they will die, But I do; in a brick-faced hospital, Divided, not unlike Caesarean Gaul, Into three…

— L.E. Sissman

“Andrei rested on a bench directly in front of a grave that belonged to: 'A father, hard worker, and beloved friend.' He…

— Karl Kristian Flores