Quotes About Tribute

I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.

Wouldn't it be lovely if death gave us a day's notice so giants like George Michael could see how much they were revered and adored.

I'm so sad to hear the horrible news of Amy Winehouse's death. I'm so happy I knew you Amy...Rest Well. Gone Too Soon...we'll miss you!!

He'd seen a lot of bizarre items left at gravesides, like a carton of eggs, a pair of reading glasses, a bag of licorice, smooth stones, a spoon.

What a more beautiful world this would be if we didn't wait til people were dead before we honored their spirit.

'Say Her Name' was a book I never wanted to write and never expected to write. I wasn't trying to do anything except write a book for Aura - a book that I thought I had to write.

I'm trying to carry on my dad's legacy, and it is tough.

an award one's superiors gave in lieu of a bonus—

there is no greater way I can think of to honor those people who've died than to tell their story ...

and had I the names of my benefactors, I could most freely record them in letters of gold,

I cannot help feeling that to die at the height of a man's career, universally honoured and admired, to die while great issues are still commanding the whole of his interest, to be taken from us at the moment when he could already see ultimate success in view—is not the most unenviable of fates." A number of those present thought Churchill was talking about himself, as well as the man to whom he was paying tribute.

But I would have the memory be worthy of the man.

The sixth and last eulogy was from Roderick, Hugo and Verna's oldest child. He wrote a three-page tribute to his father, and it was read by the reverend. Even Michael Geismar, a cold-blooded Presbyterian, finally succumbed to his emotions. The

Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.

We'll be back, with more ashes for you!" el jefe had shouted. "You

But to him who tries and fails and dies I give great honor and glory and tears.

THE GREATER THE MONUMENT, the greater the man. The stone the Greeks quarry for his grave is huge and white, stretching up to the sky. ACHILLES, it reads. It will stand for him, and speak to all who pass: he lived and died, and lives again in memory.

If I get killed, put my boots back on me.

You owe some things to the dead even if they're not your own dead. I guess in some way they're all your own.

My deepest condolences for DJ AM, you were a great artist and will be severely missed. My thoughts and Prayers to his family and friends.

I was always nervous to play my father's [John Lennon's] songs.

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.