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Quotes About Memorial

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
~ Charles de Gaulle
The medals of the dead heroes are the coins for the future. (Les médailles des héros morts - Sont les pièces pour l'avenir.)
~ Charles de Leusse
The memory of the dead is indeed a good remorse.
~ Charles de Leusse
Keep my memory green.
~ Charles Dickens
Grabschrift auf einen Gehenkten Hier ruht er, wenn der Wind nicht weht!
~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The most touching epitaph I ever encountered was on the tombstone of the printer of Edinburgh. It said simply: He kept down the cost and set the type right.
~ Gregory Nunn
the war was over and you had to riot in foolishness lest you remember you were dancing over a million graves. By
~ Gwen Bristow
Rhoda Palmateer, in loving memory. Rhoda's love saved the day for many hundreds of cats and kittens who otherwise would have languished on the streets or died in shelters.
~ Gwen Cooper
1916…. The Somme Battle. Twenty-three names read out one Sunday evening.
~ James Hilton
Sons of Confederate Veterans.
~ James M. McPherson
Think about Nine-Eleven, Emily. Three hundred Spartans stood up against a million invaders at Thermopylae, right? Well, down in the valley of Lower Manhattan on Nine-Eleven, four hundred and three firefighters, cops, paramedics, and service
~ James Patterson
Kilroy was here
~ James Patterson
My first reaction on being awarded the Nobel Prize was, actually, I thought of Fischer Black, my colleague. He unfortunately had passed away. And there was no doubt in my mind that if he were still alive, he would have been a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize.
~ Myron Scholes
Let the living give thanks to our honored dead who have paid the ultimate sacrifice that the Constitution of the United States remains our guiding light.
~ Bob Latta
The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.
~ Caitlin Doughty
Memorial Day is all about celebrating the lives of the men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice in service to our country. The United States is made great because of their heroism. Their lives are remembered, honored, and celebrated by all of us, including the friends, family, and fellow service members who knew them best.
~ Jan Schakowsky
Because Ritchie Valens WAS the real deal. He was only starting, but in the time he spent in the business, he made big impact. I don't know if anybody could have made a bigger one.
~ Waylon Jennings
Former President Shimon Peres was a leader and a statesman, and an especially wonderful friend to all of us. He will be missed dearly.
~ Andrew Cuomo
To have a statue of you up 100 years from now at the Superdome, I think that's amazing.
~ Steve Gleason
I get chills when I think that there's a statue of Phil Lynott on a street in Dublin, that people leave flowers by the statue. I love stuff like that.
~ George Pelecanos
Most people to whom a statue has been erected are undeserving.
~ Howard Jacobson
Now they got two little nice statues in Chariot Park to remember the gay movement. How many people have died for these two little statues to be put in the park for them to recognize gay people?
~ Marsha P. Johnson
Statues of sports stars are all the rage - especially in baseball.
~ Frank Deford
There should be no schools, bridges or statues devoted to Trump. His name should live in infamy, and he should be remembered, if at all, for precisely what he was - not a president, but a blundering cheat.
~ George T. Conway III