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Quotes About Memorial

And so, they wait. Mothers, wives and daughters wait to place flowers at those graves -- and to start life over again.
~ Unknown
Here lies a good fellow who spent his life while he had it.
~ Unknown
Happy Memorial day to our fallen soldiers. May their bravery, and heroism be remembered and honored forever.
~ Unknown
No day shall erase you from the memory of time
~ Virgil
Here lies W.C.Fields. I'd rather be living in Philadelphia.
~ W.C. Fields
A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue.
~ W.H. Auden
James Dean's death had a profound effect on me. The instant I heard about it, I vomited. I don't know why.
~ Montgomery Clift
Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Can storied urn, or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of Death?
~ Thomas Gray
Here lies William Trollope, Who made these stones roll up; When death took his soul up, His body filled this hole up
~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.
~ William Shakespeare
The dead have nothing except the memory they've left.
~ Ferenc Molnar
Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
~ Thomas Gray
Honer and self sacrifice. Death does not diminish these qualities in a soldier. We shall remember.
~ Eric S. Nylund
Graveyards remind us of the vanity of all human endeavour.
~ Ivan Klíma
A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.
~ Unknown
This was before the Nazis settled on a more efficient method—machine-gunning Jews into the Babi Yar canyon, thirty thousand in two days.
~ Rachel Kadish
Two fine men died during the construction of this building.
~ Dean Koontz
She should have a ride named after her at Epcot, man.
~ Dennis Lehane
And then later, at the funeral, members of the family, followed by the tenants and then the servants, had come one by one to add a stone each to the weight of remembrance.
~ Diana Gabaldon
War seldom looks on the faces of its dead
~ Diana Gabaldon
But whoever said funerals were for the benefit of the living had had the right of it.
~ Diana Gabaldon
So many times I wanted to go to Auschwitz, but I couldn't take up the courage to go there.
~ Frank Lowy
It is not only the living who are killed in war.
~ Isaac Asimov