Quotes About Memorial

In the end I suppose we lay flowers on a grave because we cannot lay ourselves on it.

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

The Victorians lost a few workers in everything they built, rather like a votive offering.

Only a very few people leave traces in history, or even bequeath family documents to their descendants. Most have no money to memorialise themselves, and lack even a gravestone to mark their existence. Women's lives, in particular, remain largely unrecorded. But even so, did they not shape the future?

recuperative and commemorative work.

They started bringing our babies out in those sheets and they laid them by my feet. They started making a line of them.

Since no grand resolution was available, the Gong memorial established a priority among the dangers, in effect based on the principle of defeating the near barbarians with the assistance of the far barbarians. It was a classical Chinese strategy that would be revisited roughly a hundred years later by Mao.

To the memory of the Man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.

They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.

Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers; Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours.

Headstone: death's bookmark.

There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.

Every year I do a song for my homeboy Valley, who passed away from a heart attack.

Father liked word games. He was fourteen times world Scrabble champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score.

I like to think of this cemetery as a meditation garden now, a place where people can spend a few hours figuring out how to deal with loss," Ron said. "It usually takes a while to learn how to say goodbye.

I want to have a street named 'Swae Lee.' It doesn't need to be a busy street.

The murder of John Kennedy in broad daylight in the streets of an American city remains, to me, an unsolved crime.

What would we do without plaques to tell us who lived where and when? They introduce the past into the present, and are the quickest and most interesting way of reminding us that our streets exist above and beyond the here-and-now.

Poussey is a really huge part of 'Orange,' and I'm sure her name will always echo through the halls of Litchfield, dead or alive.

I want a church service with New Orleans funeral jazz music. I'd like people to say a few words about me and I may have my ashes scattered in the sea.

Nobody will ever take Maurice's place, and he'll go on with us and he'll go on our music. He'll go on with us as the Bee Gees, and Maurice will always be with us.

We always honor our people when they die; we've got to honor them while we're still alive.

Andersonville lay on American soil and saw the death of 13,000 Americans in American custody.

The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, the preeminent US-based center for detailing communist crimes, cites the figure of 100 million deaths. Numerous others agree and could be listed here. Dr. Malia aptly noted that the communist record offers the 'most colossal case of political carnage in history.