Quotes About Commemoration

We were like mourners at an invisible cenotaph during the two minutes' silence which commemorates an irremediable failure of the human will.

I wanted to leave the whole war behind me, and yet I was seeing something on that battlefield that demanded commemoration. It was unholy ground, but I wanted to thank God for showing it to me. I would never again look at a man without wondering what crimes he was capable of committing. That seemed important to know.

Oh, what a day. I will make it a holiday.

This marks an important shift in the function of the north slope, no longer just a source of secure and plentiful water but a place of shrines, worship, and visitation. In a very real sense, this evolution into a place of commemoration and devotion marks the expansion of the sacred space of the Acropolis down its slopes and the opening up of the Sacred Rock to the larger community. This

Children whose birth was being commemorated received symbolic presents that acted as talismans. Thus, in Plautus (Ep., 639 f.), Telestis received a gold crescent and a little ring of the same metal.

U krš?anstvu doduše poznajemo kultnu anamnezu; no imamo li - barem u za?ecima - doista anamneti?ku kulturu koja kultski spomen muke povezuje s našim povijesnim iskustvima te tako sprje?ava da muka na koncu bude slavljena samo kao od povijesti udaljeni mit?

And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

What did you do on Armistice Night? My beloved is mine and I am his!

Winners of wars get a standing start in the post-war stakes of remembrance.

There's a basic problem with the history of the Holocaust. The people who do it don't know the necessary languages.

O louvor dos mortos é um modo de orar por eles.

To me, every plaque, no matter what words are inscribed on it, says the same magic informative thing: Something happened! The gum cost a dollar, but the story was free.

The very essence of civilized culture is that we deliberately erect monuments and memorials, lest we forget...

To pronounce the name of the dead is to make them live again.

But what is a memorial, when you come right down to it, but a commemoration of wounds endured? Endured, and resented. Without memory, there can be no revenge.

I shouldn't have taken a vow of silence, I told myself. What did I want? Nothing much. Just a memorial. But what is a memorial, when you come right down to it, but a commemoration of wounds endured? Endured, and resented. Without memory, there can be no revenge.

Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, and all the Virtues of Man without his Vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery, if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just Tribute to the Memory of BOATSWAIN, a Dog.

I don't want to be remembered. I want the nice words when I can hear them.

Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.

Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.

There is power in remembrance, recalling, and memorial celebration.

I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did.

I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.

We who are left, how shall we look again Happily on the sun or feel the rain Without remembering how they who went Ungrudgingly and spent Their lives for us loved, too, the sun and rain?