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Quotes About Memorial

A country which prefers guns to flowers will live the beauty of the flowers only in its graveyards!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
What is left after war is silence: The silence of the death
~ the silence of the debris
Nobody returned alive from the war.
~ Andrija Joni?
It was a tragic end to a heroic life.
~ Chris Kyle
War limits the deads. It limits them to the cimetery ... (La guerre limite les morts. - Les limite au cimetière...)
~ Charles de Leusse
There's no point in burying the hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.
~ Sydney Harris
There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.
~ Sydney J. Harris
Sadako's death, ten years after the Hiroshima bombing, was caused by radiation exposure.
~ Takayuki Ishii
We think of mortality so little these days... I thought of the stern Victorian determination to keep death in mind, the uncompromising tombstones. Remember, pilgrim, as you pass by, As you are now so once was I: As I am so will you be...
~ Tana French
I want my funeral to be a pizza party with 500 pizzas and nobody is allowed to leave until all the pizzas are eaten
~ Tao Lin
Zakhor, Al Tichkah.' Souviens-toi. N'oublie jamais.
~ Tatiana de Rosnay
Remember. Never forget.
~ Tatiana de Rosnay
Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
~ Tecumseh
And the two colleagues are still hanging out together: Van Heusen is buried in the Sinatra family plot in Cathedral City, California.
~ Ted Gioia
Well, I think one doesn't really have to invent this memorial space, because it is already there. And it is speaking with a voice and, you know, 4 million of us came to see the site.
~ Daniel Libeskind
It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Dream' speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment.
~ Jesse Jackson
At Mom's funeral, mourner after mourner spoke about what a wonderful teacher she was. She was certainly devoted to her students.
~ Max Boot
Let us not mourn that such men died, but rejoice that such men lived.
~ George S. Patton
Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.
~ Washington Irving
An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.
~ Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
In Memoriam, Louis Anglesey, Earl of Upnor, finest swordsman in England, beaten to death with a stick by an Irishman.' " Teague considered it for a moment, then nodded. "In Connaught," he added. "In Connaught," Bob agreed, then eyed the ditch.
~ Neal Stephenson
In Memoriam, Louis Anglesey, Earl of Upnor, finest swordsman in England, beaten to death with a stick by an Irishman.
~ Neal Stephenson
We came up to the first tower of the bridge, with a plaque proclaiming who had built it; I stopped to read. John Roebling. Aided by his wife, and then his son. He died during construction. But hey, the Brooklyn Bridge might be here for eight hundred years. I wanted to leave something like that behind. I didn't know how I was going to do it, but I felt like I had taken the first steps
~ Ned Vizzini
By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate.
~ David Rockefeller