Memorial Quotes
290 quotes by 235 authors
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This isn't the Democratic party of our fathers and grandfathers. This is the party of Woodstock hippies. I was at Woodstock--I built the stage. And…
— John Ratzenberger
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Canada is lacking two things. It's true. Don't make me say it again. The first is Olympic Heroes [...] The second thing that Canada is…
— Kurt Angle
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When night falls over Washington, D.C., memorials, public buildings, and broad avenues become ethereal shapes in soft light and shadow. Floodlights, piercing the darkness, etch…
— Volkmar Wentzel
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I don't want to spend a fortune on my cremation urn, but I really do want to look nice at my memorial service.
— Lynn Flewelling
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Some will remember an image of a fire or story or rescue. Some will carry memories of a face and a voice gone forever. And…
— George W. Bush
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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the…
— William James
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If you threw a barbecue yesterday for the Memorial weekend, it was 29 percent more expensive than last year because Barack Obama's policies have led…
— Michele Bachmann
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The government is trying to now close the Lincoln Memorial for any kind of large gatherings.
— Glenn Beck
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Who knows when the end is reached? Death may be the beginning of life. How do I know that love of life is not a…
— Zhuangzi
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In the godforsaken, obscene quicksand of life, there is a deafening alleluia rising from the souls of those who weep, and of those who weep…
— Ann Weems
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Love for one's country is part of faith.
— Muhammad
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I was born in Munich, and my father was stationed in Salzburg. For the first three years of my life, I lived in Austria back…
— Rick Atkinson
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We are all inspired by the incredible stories of handicapped people who write novels with their toes, cancer victims who run marathons for cancer research,…
— Danah Zohar
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This was the first Memorial Day [Monday, May 1st, 1865]. African Americans invented Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina. What you have there is Black…
— David W. Blight
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For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in…
— Pericles
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The decision to rely heavily on high-altitude air power, target urban infrastructure and repeatedly attack heavily populated towns and villages has reflected a deliberate trade-off…
— Seumas Milne
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Presented memorial to [Constitutional Convention] committee on sufferage. Was very courteously treated. We all felt it a great day in the history of Utah. The…
— Ruth May Fox
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On my recent trip to Israel, I had the opportunity to visit Yad Vashem, Israel's national Holocaust memorial, and reaffirm our collective responsibility to confront…
— Barack Obama
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Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.
— Henry Waxman
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What we dedicate today is not a memorial to war, rather it's a tribute to the physical and moral courage that makes heroes out of…
— Bob Dole
Who Wrote These Memorial Quotes
235 authors contributed a total of 290 Memorial Quotes, led by these top contributors: