Memorial Quotes

290 quotes by 235 authors

Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning. — Susan Sontag
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. — Rabindranath Tagore
God's finger touched him, and he slept. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen are sadly ignored,… — Allen West
From 1971 onwards, the Memorial Day holiday was officially observed on the last Monday in May and became the unofficial start of the summer, with… — Allen West
While there are towns and cities still planning Memorial Day parades, many have not held a parade in decades. Some think the day is for… — Allen West
We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail. — Cornel West
The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names. — William Westmoreland
When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves. — William Westmoreland
Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question. — Tennessee Williams
The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it. — Frank Lloyd Wright
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. — A A Milne
I figure if Doc is right about the time I have left,I should wrap up my adolescence in the next few days, get into my… — Chris Crutcher
Mr. Franzen said he and Mr. Wallace, over years of letters and conversations about the ethical role of the novelist, had come to the joint… — Jonathan Franzen
The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day… — Samuel Johnson
Death is not the end Death can never be the end. Death is the road. Life is the traveller. The Soul is the Guide ...… — Sri Chinmoy
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
The people who visit the [Lincoln] memorial always look like an advertisement for democracy, so bizarrely, suspiciously diverse that one time I actually saw a… — Sarah Vowell
Fertility says, "Can you relax and just let things happen?" I ask, does she mean, like disasters, like pain, like misery? Can I just let… — Chuck Palahniuk

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235 authors contributed a total of 290 Memorial Quotes, led by these top contributors: