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Quotes About Memorial

This book is dedicated to Iron Man. Tony Stark stopped Thanos and saved us all and I, for one, will never forget the sacrifice he made. Also to Natasha Romanoff for yeeting herself off that cliff.
~ Derek Landy
I'd seen pictures of the wall online, but nothing prepared me fr seeing it in person. It was a deep scar in the earth and looked like a long black mirror reflecting the puffy white clouds, the blue sky, the trees and grass. It reflected the things people left at its base -- small flags and stuffed animals and photographs. And it reflected the faces of the people who stood in front of it, looking, pointing, weeping. It reflected me.
~ Diane Chamberlain
requiem sermon
~ Diane Haeger
The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us.
~ Dick Cheney
The majority of my symphonies are tombstones
~ Dmitri Shostakovich
The Seventh and Eighth symphonies are my requiem.
~ Dmitri Shostakovich
The majority of my symphonies are tombstones. Too many of our people died and were buried in places unknown to anyone, not even their relatives. It happened to many of my friends. Where do you put the tombstones for Meyerhold or Tukhachevsky? Only music can do that for them. Looking back, I see nothing but ruins, only mountains of corpses... I'm not exaggerating, I mean mountains... I'm sad, I'm grieving all the time.
~ Dmitri Shostakovich
137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.
~ Doc Hastings
Nothing in the world is more sinister than a child's coffin.
~ Dominic Smith
It is not necessary to live, But to carve our names beyond that point, This is necessary.
~ Gabriele d'Annunzio
If a man has done evil in his life, he must not be complimented in marble.
~ Charles Sumner
Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
~ Harold MacMillan
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
~ Charles Baudelaire
and a person is dead.
~ Jennifer Roy
They are many indeed that lie there, though until now we have not thought of it so. Hitherto we have just all remained there together, they in the graves, we in the trenches, divided only by a few handfuls of earth. They were but a little before us; daily we became less and they more, and often we have not known whether we already belonged to them or not.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
The graveyard is a mass of wreckage. Coffins and corpses lie strewn about. They have been killed once again; but each of them that was flung up saved one of us.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
She eventually adopted the "gold collar" and married a former U.S. ambassador to Russia, John Wallace Riddle. She achieved her goal of creating a progressive boys' school as a memorial to her late father. She built it in Avon, Connecticut, and called it Avon Old Farms School, which exists today.
~ Erik Larson
Im Osten, Westen und Süden liegen die letzten Ruhestätten jener deutschen Soldaten, die für Heimat und Land den Weg der Pflicht bis zum bitteren Ende beschritten haben. Sie sind eine ständige Mahnung an unsere Zurückgebliebenen und unsere zukünftigen Generationen, dass wir sie nicht im Stich lassen dürfen, wenn es darum geht, Opfer für Deutschland zu bringen.
~ Erwin Rommel
As a memorial fund in her memory attracts hundreds of millions of pounds, as Elton John's Diana tribute becomes the fastest- and biggest-selling record of all time, as the books, videos, magazines and other memorabilia emerge, Diana has joined the pantheon of the immortals.
~ Andrew Morton
After Hitler had viewed the granite memorial to the 1918 Armistice near the railway carriage, he ordered it to be destroyed. Spears was right to think that the French initially had 'a conception of the old days of royalty when you just exchanged a couple of provinces, paid a certain amount of millions and then called it a day and started off the next time hoping you would be more lucky', but they were soon to be vigorously disabused.
~ Andrew Roberts
His ashes were scattered on the sea he never finished crossing.
~ Andrew X. Pham
To Milva the Archer.' Zoltan Chivay cleared his throat, saluting with his cup, 'To the Nilfgaardian. To Regis the herbalist, he entertained the travelers in his cottage with moonshine and mandrake, and to Angoulême whom i never knew. May the earth lie lightly on them all. My they have in the beyond, plenty of whatever they were short of on earth. And may their names live forever in songs and tales. Let us drink to them.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Today, most people are unaware that of the eleven million people exterminated, five million were not even Jewish. In Dachau, one of the largest and most infamous of all concentration camps, only a third of the population was Jewish.
~ Andy Andrews
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