Quotes About Memorial

At my funeral, someone had better touch up my lips and foundation before they close the casket. That's not a beauty tip. It's a formal request.

I touched Roger's bat and held it to my heart. My bat will lie next to his. I'm damn proud of that.

While there are towns and cities still planning Memorial Day parades, many have not held a parade in decades. Some think the day is for honoring anyone who has died, not just those fallen in service to our country.

While tributes to Americans who had lost their lives in battle had been held in a number of towns across the nation, one of the more well-known stories about the beginnings of Memorial Day is the story about General John Logan.

I don't want any memorials or a grave which my children would have to look after or feel guilty about. I don't want to leave any trace except for the work I have done.

We understand the realities of the sports world. Take Shaq for example, he was traded from here and went on to several other teams after that. But once he was retired, he asked us to retire his jersey. He wanted to be remembered as a Laker.

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

Carolyn had told me that while he was still able, Bob had arranged to have his favorite words from his favorite work of Dickens inscribed on his grave marker, but still I was unprepared for their effect when actually seen. Engraved across the granite face of the footstone was the epitaph by which Bob DeMatteis had chosen to be remembered: "And it was always said of him that he knew how to keep Christmas well.

My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket.

Go tell the Spartans, thou who passest by,That here, obedient to their laws, we lie.

Today's words and deeds are tomorrow's testament.

Si monumentum requiris circumspice [If you would see the man's monument, look around].

With rich flames, and hired tears, they solemnized their obsequies.

Duncan Edwards was a colossus - Bobby Robson

If you're going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can't be erased.

Kaiser's memorial church, along the Kantstrasse, where mobs of youths were starting

Julian and his team of copy-writers had noted that the phrase 'Lest we forget' had so far been reserved for fallen soldiers. In minutes they had created a viral post accusing 'crazed trans multi-cultural zealots' of claiming that a dead transsexual was as much an English hero as the fighter pilots who had died during the Battle of Britain. Malika's algorithms then swiftly sent the message to the people most likely to be annoyed by it.

What most distinguishes Confucius from other founders is that he inculcated a strict code of ethics, which has been respected ever since, but associated with very little religious dogma, which gave place to complete theological scepticism in the countless generations of Chinese literati who revered his memory and administered the Empire.

I tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life. I am the bread of life" (John 6:47–48). Did you notice how Jesus combined the bread of life with everlasting life? Christ is the bread of God's presence to us. His scars are placed before God as a perpetual memorial that the wages of our sins have been paid. Christ said, "This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world" (John 6:51b).

He named it Ebenezer, explaining, "The LORD has helped us to this point." 1 Samuel 7:12

A requiem is meant to bring comfort.

I believe that the Holocaust is the most significant event in human history.

I've always been really nationalistic, and I had a brother killed in Korea. And I think the 'Star Spangled Banner,' even today - and I've heard it a heckuva lot of times, OK - has always been a significant feeling to me.

In the end, the only monument that matters may be the work of love we carve into the lives around us.