Memorial famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
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 such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.
-- Adam Clarke -
God's finger touched him, and he slept.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
By my reckoning, I'm about 100 kilometers from Pathfinder. Technically it's called “Carl Sagan Memorial Station.†But with all due respect to Carl, I can call it whatever the hell I want. I'm the King of Mars.
-- Andy Weir -
Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?
-- Anne Tyler -
Since every building and designed object is made of memory, every place can become a memorial for re-membering our lives and the world around us... a place to recollect the fragments of our lives into a revitalized whole.
-- Anthony Lawlor -
A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino -
I understand, probably more than anyone, what a threat Iraq was and the people that threatened Iraq was. I was beneath the towers on September 11th when they fell. And I -- again, I just -- I want to thank the President for the honor in allowing me to go there, because I lost 23 people. I wear this -- this memorial band for the 23 I lost.
-- Bernard Kerik -
We're all forgotten sooner or later. But not films. That's all the memorial we should need or hope for,
-- Burt Lancaster -
Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman -
And now I am ready to keep running When the sun rises beyond the borderlands of death. I already see mountain ridges in the heavenly forest Where, beyond every essence, a new essence awaits.
-- Czeslaw Milosz -
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 make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.
-- Dan Rather -
Buffer between commercial, memorial and retail space.
-- Daniel Libeskind -
There will be a competition for the memorial. And then it can be developed with trees, with planting. It can become a very beautiful place protected from the streets, because it is below. And it can be something very moving and very private.
-- Daniel Libeskind -
This is what a memorial is: standing still, staring at something that isn’t ther
-- David Levithan -
A scar is not always a flaw. Sometimes a scar may be redemption inscribed in the flesh, a memorial to something endured, to something lost.
-- Dean Koontz -
The best memorial for a mighty man is to gain honor ere death.
-- Decimius Magnus Ausonius -
In 2003, Congress authorized the construction of a visitor center for the Vietnam Memorial to help provide information and educate the public about the memorial and the Vietnam War.
-- Dennis Cardoza -
Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.
-- Edgar Lee Masters -
The black arrowed swoop of the moment swung high into the unceilinged future, ten, fifty, sixty years, may be: then, past seeing, up to that warmthless unconsidered mock-time, when nothing shall be left but the memorial that fits all (except, if there be, the most unhappiest) of human kind: I was not, I lived and loved, I am not.
-- Eric Rucker Eddison -
A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.
-- George Meredith -
Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
-- George William Curtis -
The purpose of the memorial is to communicate the founding, expansion, preservation, and unification of the United States with colossal statues of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.
-- Gutzon Borglum -
Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
-- Hans Christian Andersen -
I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we still are.
-- Henry Scott Holland -
They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.
-- Henry Waxman -
The song is ended, but the melody lingers on...
-- Irving Berlin -
The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous event.
-- J. B. Priestley -
Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.
-- Jack Bruce -
For the love of country they accepted death.
-- James A. Garfield -
Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
-- John Milton -
Every successive generation becomes a living memorial of our public schools, and a living example of their excellence.
-- Joseph Story -
Weep if you must Parting is hell But life goes on So sing as well.
-- Joyce Grenfell -
My research, even before 1972, moved in directions beyond those cited for the Nobel Memorial Prize. Most of it, in one way or another, deals with information as an economic variable, both as to its production and as to its use.
-- Kenneth Arrow -
It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead.
-- Kim Stanley -
The whole memorial is for different senses... seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling. I probably would have come up with something different if I had not lived through it.
-- Lawrence Halprin -
I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I have had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral
-- Lord Mountbatten -
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 -
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 it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.
-- Mark Twain -
I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Where is delight? and what are pleasures now?-Moths that a garment fret.The world is turned memorial, crying, "ThouShalt not forget!
-- Mary Elizabeth Coleridge -
The Journal is not essentially a confession, a story about oneself. It is a Memorial. What does the writer have to remember? Himself, who he is when he is not writing, when he is living his daily life, when he is alive and real, and not dying and without truth.
-- Maurice Blanchot -
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 a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.
-- Maya Lin -
Every memorial in its time has a different goal.
-- Maya Lin -
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 politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.
-- 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 polished, like a geode.
-- Maya Lin -
People depend on the Open Internet to connect and communicate with each other freely. Voters need it to inform themselves before casting ballots. Without prompt corrective action by the Commission to reclassify broadband, this awful ruling will serve as a sorry memorial to the corporate abrogation of free speech.
-- Michael Copps -
A woman I loved [Andi Parhamovich] was killed in Baghdad in January 2007 – al-Qaeda in Iraq took credit for it … The memorial service with me crying over an empty coffin.
-- Michael Hastings -
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
-- Michelangelo -
A president cant go to every memorial service.
-- Nancy Gibbs -
Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure.
-- Oliver Lodge -
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes -
He hath awakened from the dream of life.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley -
Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
-- Pericles -
Visiting the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., for example, I was struck by its marginalization of any other victims apart from the Jews, to the extent that it presented photographs of dead bodies in camps such as Buchenwald or Dauchau as dead Jewish bodies, when in fact relatively few Jewish prisoners were held there.
-- Richard J. Evans -
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
-- Robert Frost -
Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew.
-- Rudyard Kipling -
After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America.
-- Russ Carnahan -
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 committee informed us they had passed on W[oman] S[uffrage] being ten to five in favor.
-- Ruth May Fox -
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 of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.
-- Samuel Johnson -
I spent some time at White Memorial Medical Center as a senior medical student doing a rotation in surgery; however, I felt I wasn't getting enough time assisting.
-- Samuel Wilson -
I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further.
-- Sarah Vowell -
These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.
-- Schuyler Colfax -
To walk into the Jefferson memorial is to be in a temple of the pure idolatry of reason
-- Scot McKnight -
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 of the lives of American pilots and soldiers, not with those of their declared Taliban enemies, but with Afghan civilians... There will be no official two-minute silence for the Afghan dead, no newspaper obituaries or memorial services attended by the prime minister, as there were for the victims of the twin towers.
-- Seumas Milne -
Roy, you left the girls and I surrounded by love. Our families and friends have been amazing. We love you and we miss you so much.
-- Susan Wallace -
Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
-- Tennessee Williams -
He broke through the barriers of the skies.
-- William Herschel -
Surely there is a fitness in the institution of the Lord's Supper as a standing memorial by which the church at large may commemorate the grandest act, and by which the heart of each individual believer may be reminded of his dearest friend. You, who have learned to love the Saviour, will prize His ordinance for the Saviour's sake. You who rejoice in the salvation purchased by His dying, will not fail with gratitude and faith to show the Lord's death until He come.
-- William Morley Punshon -
Here is also to be noted, that the cause of the institution was to be a memorial, to testify that Christ's body was given, and his blood shed for us.
-- William Tyndale -
The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.
-- William Westmoreland -
It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended upon Washington. Hundreds of thousands of protesters trekked through the heat, stretching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial.
-- Yvette Clarke -
And there's the Victoria Memorial, built as a memorial to Victoria.
-- David Dimbleby -
In all my shows, I'm not interested in the iconic shots of the Capitol and the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. I'm always interested in trying to get the culture of the place - trying to get it right.
-- David Nevins -
The camera's perspective exactly matches that of the assassin: it now shoots the tourists shooting their own memorial photos, and we can watch this in real time.
-- Joachim Schmid -
I cannot stress this enough: do not take powerful hallucinogens before going to a Holocaust memorial.
-- Nathan Rabin -
From joy all beings have come and unto joy they all return.
-- Yajnavalkya -
The United States' poetry emerged when there was a high literacy rate in the United States, even in the 19th century. People read the poetry when it was written. In Ireland, there was a poor literacy rate and people remember that poetry. That was handed on as a memorial tradition.
-- Eavan Boland -
With living colours give my verse to glow: The sad memorial of a tale of woe!
-- William Falconer -
For a few ticks of the clock I am here, uncomprehending, attempting to make some record or memorial of this eternal passage, like a traveler in a strange country through which he is being hurried on a schedule not of his making and for a purpose he does not understand.
-- Louis J. Halle
