Dies Quote by Samuel Johnson

Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing…

— Margaret Atwood

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

— Samuel Butler

“People don’t gather after a death to mourn, but rather to reaffirm why life matters and to remember to exult in the only one…

— Heather Lende

Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing…

— Margaret Atwood

Memorial Day will be celebrated ... by the usual betrayal of the dead, by the hypocritical patriotism of the politicians and contractors preparing for…

— Howard Zinn

Memorial Day gives us answers because we can reflect and seek spiritual guidance from the most selfless our country has ever known. We look…

— Brian Mast

“I'm not a big fan of memorials." "Oh yeah?" "A memorial implies that the only victims are the ones in the ground. I think…

— Mariko Tamaki

Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Indifferent lives are laid to rest under indifferent monuments

— Rex Ruthman

Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen are sadly…

— Allen West

I keep lot of my opinions to myself. My grandfather, who was a gravedigger, told me one day, 'Son, the next time you go…

— Lee Trevino

The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've died. They're…

— Anonymous