Memorial Quotes · Page 8

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

— Anonymous

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

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

— Francis Marion Crawford

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

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

— David Levithan

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Memorial was so functional. It was a storage facility. A prematorium.”

— John Green

To the veterans in Mississippi and across the nation, thank you for your bravery and commitment to preserving this great country. I…

— Cindy Hyde-Smith

And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the…

— Joseph Rodman Drake

I haven't taught since 2004, but I taught high school English for seven years, primarily at a place called Haddonfield Memorial, which…

— Matthew Quick

I have been living in Germany for one year and my impression is that people here are on a quest for the…

— Liao Yiwu

By my reckoning, I'm about 100 kilometers from Pathfinder. Technically it's called “Carl Sagan Memorial Station.” But with all due respect to…

— Andy Weir

Human excellence, parted from God, is like a fable flower, which, according to Rabbis, Eve plucked when passing out of paradise--severed from…

— Charles Villiers Stanford

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

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

The people who visit the [Lincoln] memorial always look like an advertisement for democracy, so bizarrely, suspiciously diverse that one time I…

— Sarah Vowell

On Memorial Day, I was out floating on Lake Norman and came across Denny Hamlin. We struck up a conversation, and one…

— Danica Patrick

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

The fantastic thing about the memorial to the Newfoundland Regiment at Beaumont-Hamel is that it's one of the rare examples where they've…

— Michael Winter

The George Washington Masonic National Memorial is a fitting tribute to so great a man and Mason. Its message should be as…

— Henry Clausen

We are all inspired by the incredible stories of handicapped people who write novels with their toes, cancer victims who run marathons…

— Danah Zohar

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

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

The government is trying to now close the Lincoln Memorial for any kind of large gatherings.

— Glenn Beck

Knights of the spirit; warriors in the cause Of justice absolute 'twixt man and man.

— Richard Watson Gilder

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

— Blaise Pascal

There's no greater city between Memorial Day and Labor Day than Chicago. It's the single best summer city in America.

— Michael Wilbon

I want to make a memorial for our turkey. Never has a bird been so tortured to provide such a lousy dinner.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Happy Memorial day to our fallen soldiers. May their bravery, and heroism be remembered and honored forever.

— Sonya Parker

This veterans day, never forget those that give their todays, for our tomorrows.

— Anonymous

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

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

— Gale Harold

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

“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

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

— Henry Waxman

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

— Duke of Wellington

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

— Ritu Ghatourey

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

— David Dimbleby