Quotes About Memorial

If I am to be a skeleton in a box buried deep into the ground, I pray you will be the dust that rests atop my bones.

Graveyards exist because death exists? No! Graveyards exist because we want to know precisely the place of our dead!

Mausoleum n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.

Who never caused others to die Seldom rates a statue.

Some people die and you realize that the only mark they left on earth are the tomb stones under which they lie. The impacts you make on earth should be something worthy to improve lives.

As the generation of Holocaust survivors and liberators dwindles, the torch of remembrance, of bearing witness, and of education must continue forward.

The name of Abraham Lincoln is imperishable.

My heart reaches out to those whose loved ones were lost on MH17.

Here lies the bodies of three brothers... enwrapt in silence and the Arms of Death, Exposed to Worms lies three once charming Boys... 1784

we spent a sad afternoon burying her in the back garden of Francis's house, where one of Francis's aunts had an elaborate cat cemetery, complete with headstones

To those before us, to those amongst us, to those we'll see on the other side. Lord let me not prove unworthy of my brothers." "Until Valhalla, Freddy.

To those before us, to those amongst us, to those we'll see on the other side. Lord let me not prove unworthy of my brothers.

This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of some four million people. And that was not done by gas. It was done by arrogance. It was done by dogma. It was done by ignorance. When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave.

She told him about tossing Bob's ashes in the deep fryer at the local restaurant. She stopped and asked him if he had ever in all his years as a minister ever heard of anyone doing that

I don't want to spend a fortune on my cremation urn, but I really do want to look nice at my memorial service.

In April 1945, immediately before surrendering the construction site, the Germans locked 1,046 of the workers into a barn and burned them alive.

When I am dead, I charge you to mingle our ashes and bury us together.

funeral services took place with the casket open, so that the mourners were required to view the deceased while great things were said about him. It was an odd custom, one aimed at making the moment far more dramatic than necessary.

4% of the sand on Normandy beaches is made up of tiny metal particles from the D-Day landings.

9/11, We shall never forget, we shall keep this day, we shall keep the events and the tears in our minds, our memory and our hearts and take them with us as we carry on!

then I see the tomb, and the marks she has made on the stone. A C H I L L E S, it reads. And beside it, P A T R O C L U S. 'Go,' she says. 'He waits for you.

But then I see the tomb, and the marks she has made on the stone. A C H I L L E S, it reads. And beside it, P A T R O C L U S.

I have done it," she says. At first, I do not understand. But then I see the tomb, and the marks she has made on the stone. ACHILLES, it reads. And beside it, PATROCLUS. "Go," she says. "He waits for you.

Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However, they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial.