Quotes About Commemoration

because Christians believed that the death of a holy person was a new birth in heaven, and they honored that date.

I was never awarded an individual decoration, but the simple, sincere personal remarks of approval by my veteran comrade that night after Peleliu were like a medal to me. I have carried them in my heart with great pride and satisfaction ever since.

When my daughter was born, I called her Ella Bella Mandela, because she was born the day after Mandela was released from prison.

Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated - Japan's attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.

Birthday party is a celebration but not all celebrations are birthday parties.

but why not even by their power of abstract thought, that nations should seek to commemorate themselves?

ROWW will only grow stronger to continue Paul's legacy for years and years to come. We are always conscious of Paul as we continue to grow - I want to make certain that ROWW continues on a path that Paul would be proud of.

The Flight 93 Memorial isn't that easy to get to. It isn't like the memorials in New York City or Washington, D.C., where you may go on a business trip or family vacation. No, in order to get to Shanksville, PA, you fly to Pittsburgh, make your way through the traffic and onto the highway that takes you through the beautiful wooded countryside.

One of the small joys that's easy to miss in London is the blue plaques on buildings. These are put up to commemorate the famous on the houses they lived in.

1912, the year of Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee, elevating

The memories of the Munich games for me are of triumph and tragedy.

pink Kimilsungias (hybrid flowers bred to honor the Great Leader; the ones named after his son are called Kimjongilias)

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.

No olvidamos las penurias de Egipto, no olvidamos a Haman, no olvidamos a Hitler. Así como no olvidamos a los injustos, no olvidamos a los justos. Recordemos pues a Oskar Schindler.

Las fechas son importantes y también los rituales, porque les dan significado y belleza a los actos humanos y ayudan a fijar los eventos en la memoria.

Yet this points to a paradox of institutionalized nostalgia: the stronger the loss, the more it is overcompensated with commemorations, the starker the distance from the past, and the more it is prone to idealizations.

I want to be remembered as a Liverpool player who was part of something special.

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

Burma evoked the lost Kenyan soldiers who served in the war. You never hear about them. There were a significant number of casualties, men who never came back home. But they're never commemorated.

Commemorating the Holocaust is not, not not not not not, the same thing as fighting to prevent future holocausts. Most of the commemorationists are just whiners. They think that if everyone feels bad about past holocausts, human nature will magically transform, and no one will want to commit genocide in the future.

More than a hygienic method of disposing of the dead, cremation enabled lovers and comrades to be mingled together for eternity:

In daylight we pick up our tinned rations and hike off, every artery and nerve of us, into the rest of our commemorative lives.

1916…. The Somme Battle. Twenty-three names read out one Sunday evening.

I am humbled, gratified and overjoyed at the dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial in commemoration of my father's leadership. It of course means a lot to our family. But more important, it is a great step forward for America.