Memorial Quotes
290 quotes by 235 authors
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I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was…
— Ben Barnes
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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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I am going to take something I learned over in Israel. Their Independence Day is preceded the 24 hours before with Memorial Day, so it…
— Glenn Beck
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going…
— Ingrid Bergman
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On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets,…
— Eric Burdon
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After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President…
— Russ Carnahan
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
— Hans Christian Andersen
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Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
— Pericles
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The average American is nothing if not patriotic.
— Herbert Croly
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The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.
— Minot Judson Savage
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I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.
— Bob Riley
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Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
— Bergen Evans
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With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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Ah! never shall the land forget.
— William C. Bryant
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Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead! Laurels and roses on their graves to-day, lilies and laurels over them we lay, and violets…
— Richard Hovey
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They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day Sleeping the years…
— Will Carleton
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As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions…
— Simon Newcomb
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I don't have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch, or read the news, we are…
— Ronald Reagan
Who Wrote These Memorial Quotes
235 authors contributed a total of 290 Memorial Quotes, led by these top contributors: