Quotes About Memorial

The Eisenhower Memorial competition and project have stirred a remarkable polemic, the center of which is not President Eisenhower or Washington, D.C. but Mr. Gehry and the values he promulgates.

To be remembered at all is an achievement of sorts.

I just want to be remembered as somebody who paid his debts.

Mickey Gee will be remembered for his guitar playing by the public and true fellow musicians.

It's nice to be remembered.

Remembering servicemen and women who lost their lives for their country is not about you. It is not about your rights or what you believe in. It is about respect.

Memorial Day reminds us that our freedom and prosperity comes at a cost.

We owe the Greatest Generation a debt we can never fully repay.

You can't replace a guy like Jean Beliveau.

I rep Peep, I have him in the middle of my face. It's not a replica tat, it's not something he had, it's my own thing.

Everybody was apprehensive about a documentary. When we're all dead and gone, we don't want to leave something that is not going to be representing the band in a true and honest way that shows everything that's important.

I'm a 9/11 Republican.

Carrie Fisher will always be an icon as Leia, but also as Carrie. She will live on forever.

I watched the buildings go down on 9/11. I saw how much that impacted our country.

They tell me the letters I write to you and leave here at this memorial are waking others up to the fact that there is still much pain left, after all these years, from the Vietnam War. But this I know. I would rather to have had you for 21 years, and all the pain that goes with losing you, than never to have had you at all.

Memorial stones that we put before God—in the form of prayer and generosity—remind Him of our condition, our need, and our obedience.

engraved on the Jefferson Memorial in Washington: "God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?

Memorial bracelets memorializing prisoners of war, missing in action, killed in action, and those who died of wounds or injuries sustained in a combat theater are authorized.

When they told me there would be a statue erected at Wrigley Field, I was happy with that. I know there will be a meeting place for a lot of people. There will be a conversation every day. They say now, 'I'll meet you at Ernie Banks' statue.' After Sept. 7, they'll say, 'I'll meet you by Billy Williams' statue.'

I have angel wings and a halo on my wrist, which I got done on my 30th birthday in memory of my brother.

On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.

These men suffered enough for a hundred lifetimes, and no one in this country should be allowed to forget it.

The Harelip had taken off her heavy shawl and draped it over a headstone. The grave was tilted and covered with moss, the name worn away by the weather. The person underneath had been forgotten and was no longer mourned by the world. But for a moment, Ren thought, the small black slate looked warmed, and grateful for being chosen.

This is for Jersey, the good dog, who would be happy to share this bench with you