Quotes About Memorial

I want to go to the 9/11 Memorial. I heard that's amazing and crazy to look at, an amazing museum. So I haven't done that. I'd like to do that.

There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25.

The idea of sacrifice is integral to the John Henry myth. Heroic figures have to die in order for us to have our stories; we live and stand on their bones.

My name is Natasha Trethewey, and I was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866.

Through the centuries, over 1.2 million brave men and women have given their lives for our nation.

It's like a memorial to Atlantis or Lyonesse: these are the stone buoys that mark a drowned world.

If he had to die, he decided that he would want an apple tree planted over him, so that his friends and family could eat the fruit born of his body.

My walk through the cemetery was an acquaintance with local history.

Gesualdo's Tenebrae Responsories for his son to upload to his iPod and listen to on the day of his burial.

The trauma pervaded and persisted in many ways. Since Constantinople was taken on a Tuesday, Christians regarded every Tuesday thereafter as an unpropitious day.

I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.

I think they'll probably put that on my gravestone. 'He Was Heterosexual and Had Low Expectations.

A Mark that spoke of loss was still a Mark, a remembrance. You could not lose something you never had.

More than a hygienic method of disposing of the dead, cremation enabled lovers and comrades to be mingled together for eternity:

Nottingham's Rock Cemetery, with its magnificent marble angels and sandstone catacombs.

In previous campaigns, only the bodies of officers were returned for burial. The rank and file casualties of Waterloo and the Crimea had been interred in mass graves. It was not until the American Civil and Franco-Prussian wars that the concept of military cemeteries for all participants developed.

I was wondering if Chester was going to have any kind of memorial. I figured probably not. Clearly his sons wanted nothing to do with him. Ellie was a new grandmother, and not wanting to travel. And who else was there? Obviously no one, or I wouldn't have been roped into taking over his care. It felt like the best possible advertisement for kindness. Treat people well, otherwise you might die and no one will notice or find it especially relevant to their life.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

After I am dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

Those two really tall buildings are the World Trade Center — the Twin Towers.

I am going to take something I learned over in Israel. Their Independence Day is preceded the 24 hours before with Memorial Day, so it gives them a chance to serve and reflect and then celebrate. I am going to try to start that tradition here in America.

At the Battle of the Somme in France, more than sixty thousand British soldiers died on the battle's first day alone.476

My sporting hero was Drazen Petrovic, the NBA basketball player, who was killed in a car accident in 1993. He was a good friend, an unbelievable player, and I dedicated my Wimbledon win to him.

...the tears come, and I cannot brush them away; I would not if I could, for they are the only tribute I can pay...