Quotes About Memorial

Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.

When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.

Here lies Dobby, a free elf.

Please bury me in the library With a dozen long-stemmed proses

Gettysburg Address ("Four score and seven years ago …")

Stonewall Jackson led our troops," he said. "Nine months later, the Battle of Chancellorsville took place not far from here. One of our guys mistook Stonewall for a Union officer and fired a volley at him. A bullet shattered his arm, and it had to be amputated just below the shoulder. Then they buried the arm in its own grave.

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

In white flowing Arabic script, dimmed since it had first been daubed months before, the bridge proclaimed for all to see: Fallujah—Graveyard of the Americans. Beneath it, Malay's Marines used black paint to write their message: This is for the Americans of Blackwater murdered here in 2004. Semper Fidelis 3/5 Dark Horse 9/11.

Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.

Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead.

Every spring, this country will be reminded of the Lady from Texas. As trees bloom and flowers carpet our nation's capital, Lady Bird Johnson will be remembered. Only Lady Bird Johnson could, with her vision of a beautiful America, lay claim to spring as her memorial.

Within the shadows of honor, courage often walks in silence. -Engraved on the monument Clay built

You think the only battles fought are done so with rifles, and the only wounds that kill draw blood. You think courage is loud, boisterous, and proud. Mrs. Warner, I don't think you have a clue as to what this memorial truly represents." -Clay to Meg

Speak up TODAY and say something positive. Even a tombstone will say something good about people when they are dead.

There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who left well enough alone.

It's an appropriate thing to recognize. I guess the words I would use [are] remembrance and reconciliation. Reconciliation is a tenet of all the faiths and it brings people together and allows for forgiveness. You can't have reconciliation without remembrance.

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.

And when you really think about the 9-11 event, the horrific attack on our land here in America and the death of three thousand of out loved ones, it was a defining moment.

Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!

It pains me whenever there's the death of a law enforcement official.

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

One death apiece is plenty.

My tomb shall be in a spot where the north wind may scatter roses over it.