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Memorial Quotes by Maya Lin
- I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then been…
- When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of…
- Every memorial in its time has a different goal.
- I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The…
- I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed…
More Memorial Quotes
- I don't have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch, or read the… — Ronald Reagan
- Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven. — Henry Ward Beecher
- 'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body… — Miguel de Cervantes
- Words are even more feeble on this Memorial Day, for the sight before us is that of a strong and good nation… — Ronald Reagan
- Those who will may raise monuments of marble to perpetuate the fame of heroes. Those who will may build memorial halls to… — Joshua Chamberlain
- To those of you mourn the loss of a loved one today, my heart goes out to you. We remember that the… — Barack Obama
- A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone. — Robert Frost
- Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least… — E. Joseph Cossman