Memorials Quotes

20 quotes by 18 authors

I am weary seeing our laboring classes so wretchedly housed, fed, and clothed, while thousands of dollars are wasted every year over unsightly statues. If… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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
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
Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience. — Henry Waxman
The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on. — Ada Louise Huxtable
A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for… — Mark Twain
It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least… — Adam Clarke
It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead. — Kim Stanley
The war in vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagreements that separated each side continue, to some extent. It's… — Ronald Reagan
But monument themselves memorials need. — George Crabbe
I find the English amazing how they got over 7/7. There were no multiple memorials with people sobbing as they would have been in America.… — Gwyneth Paltrow
But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to… — Dan Rather
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
Why should the Eisenhower memorial be over twice the size of WWII Memorial? Why should it be so vast as to comfortably house two Lincoln… — Leon Krier
The accounting of the sacrifice is, more than anything else, the attitude toward war memorials in our time. — Friedrich St. Florian
If you look at the history of presidential memorials, it takes a long time to get them done. — Susan Eisenhower
Every American should have a say in the memorials we choose to build in our nation. Family members have a special responsibility. — Susan Eisenhower
The European who comes to America plunges into the virgin forest with wonder and delight; while the American who goes to Europe finds his greatest… — James Fenimore Cooper
My titillations have no foot-notes And their memorials are the phrases Of idiosyncratic music. — Wallace Stevens

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