Quotes About Memorial

Geoffrey Tozer's death is a national tragedy. For the Australian arts and Australian music, losing Tozer is like Canada having lost Glenn Gould, or France, Ginette Neveu. It is a massive cultural loss. The kind of loss people felt when Germany lost Dresden.

The biggest tragedy we had early on was when Bon Scott died.

9/11 was a terrible, horrific, tragic day.

With all due respect to re-enactors, I consider the Civil War too tragic a subject to make a game of.

Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

the Sioux did not rejoice. Too many of their own had been lost that day. When

Why not laugh again, and let your joy be my monument?

There's only one truth about war: people die.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks.

explorers invariably give their names to the places that haunt or kill them.

She was cremated.

Why waste a life in search of an epitaph? 'Fondly Remembered'. Who other than a halfwit has that chiselled above his head?

Six and a half hours later, the market closed. Zoran had no idea whether the market as a whole had finished up or down for the day. Ten minutes after that he could be found, alone, pacing outside the 9/11 memorial, smoking a cigarette. "This is like the first day of the battle against complacency," he said.

Y'all really think Ms. Shakur, or Ms. Wallace, Or Ms. Mizell from out in Hollis Wouldn't exchange the love and fame Attached to their loved ones' names Just to have 'em still alive in their arms?

What will we bury him in?" she asked, struggling with another shovelful of wet dirt.

was interested to see that two bouquets had been laid on the lid, so someone must miss her. A couple of other mourners, lacking flowers, had left empty crisp packets, bless them, while someone else had placed an empty can of Carlsberg lager on the grave of a man named Duckett

headed instead across the field to the Magna Carta memorial, a little open-air rotunda erected in 1957 by the American Bar Association and memorable today as the only decent thing ever done by lawyers.

It was interesting, I thought, that the memorial to Tip was grander than the memorial to the men who took part in the dam-busters raids, but then I remembered that this was England and Tip was a dog.

The last act is bloody, however fine the rest of the play. They throw earth over your head and it is finished forever.

In Vietnam today there is a My Lai Museum. Hersh visited it in early 2015 for The New Yorker and noted the names and ages of the victims listed on a marble plaque. The count of the dead is no longer in dispute: a total of 504 people from 247 families; 24 families lost everyone—three generations, no survivors. Included in the 504 were 60 elderly men, and 282 women (17 of whom were pregnant). A total of 173 children were killed; 53 were infants.

Tohono O'odham Nation chairman Ned Norris Jr. explained. "We feel very strongly that this particular wall will desecrate this area forever. I would compare it to building a wall over your parents' graveyards. It would have the same effect.

Here lies Mago the boxer, of whom it may honestly be said that he never harmed anybody.

Here Philippos the father buried his son Nikoteles, a child of twelve and his dearest hope.