Quotes About Memorial

The best memorial for a mighty man is to gain honor ere death.

When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future -- for generations who didn't know the man and didn't know the era in which he lived.

Only the forgotten are truly dead.

With the tears a Land hath shed Their graves should ever be green.

Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms.

They burnt not children before their teeth appeared, as apprehending their bodies too tender a morsel for fire, and that their gristly bones would scarce leave separable relicks after the pyral combustion. That they kindled not fire in their houses for some days after was a strict memorial of the late afflicting fire. And mourning without hope, they had an happy fraud against excessive lamentation, by a common opinion that deep sorrows disturb their ghosts.

If Seattle could put my jersey on top of the Space Needle, they would.

We must never forget or diminish the sacrifices of those who gave everything for this nation.

Despite what Washington thinks or does on this 15th anniversary, we the people will never forget those who perished and the lessons learned on Sept. 11, 2001.

America will never forget the service and sacrifice of our 9/11 heroes and their families.

We can never forget the Gujarat communal riots.

Seek midday nourishment. Visit memorial acclaimed war hero Colonel Sanders.

I just want the days of my life to add up to something. The way every day of your life, the way it can just disappear in front of the television, Denny says he wants a rock to show for each day. Something tangible. Just one thing. A little monument to mark the end of each day... Tombstone isn't the right word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.

We attempt to glorify and enthrone all good things that die.

Here was a place sacred to the dead, who were not the living ceased, but almost another species, requiring rites and prayers that belonged uniquely to them.

The fathers of America had designed their capital city to form a crucifix. The Washington Monument marked the center, with the Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial forming the longer center line while the Jefferson Memorial and the White House formed the shorter horizontal

The fathers of America had designed their capital city to form a crucifix. The Washington Monument marked the center, with the Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial forming the longer center line while the Jefferson Memorial and the White House formed the shorter horizontal line.

No day shall erase you from the memory of time. An inscription on a wall from 911 by Virgil Aeneid.

Our Hero welcomed Death.

Hemos enterrado a Cercamón en la punta del cabo, junto a la ermita. Allí donde la tierra se acaba. El juglar más viajero del gremio no podía descansar en otro lugar. Mattius nomrespondió.

I wish to remember the millions of Allied servicemen and prisoners of war who lived the story of the Second World War.

I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.

Rest in peace. The mistake shall not be repeated.

Of present fame think little, and of future less the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.