Quotes About Memorial

America has lost an icon. Ronald Reagan's leadership will inspire Americans for generations to come. His patriotism and devotion to our country will never be forgotten.

Spare the rod and spoil the Memorial Day rotisserie.

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Soldiers' graves are the greatest preachers of peace.

Rest in peace to Heath Ledger but I'm no joker

I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.

...and they buried him there, just off the trail, in a glade ten miles from the majestic Salween, a long way from home, but what dead man is not?

Bury me where I die.

Forgotten hero was never the real hero, real hero can not be forgotten.

Betrayed by friendship is not a bad memorial to leave.

No wreaths please—especially no hothouse flowers.Some common memento is better,something he prized and is known by:his old clothes—a few books perhaps.

Toll for the brave—The brave! that are no more;All sunk beneath the wave,Fast by their native shore!

Ah! never shall the land forget How gushed the life-blood of her brave -

Few, few shall part where many meet, The snow shall be their winding sheet; And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre.

No man is truly great who is great only in his own lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

threnody through the postmortem

It was felt that nothing could more palpably represent the man, and this quotation has consequently been inscribed upon the tablet erected to his memory near his grave in Westminster Abbey. It was noticed some time after selecting it that Livingstone wrote these words exactly one year before his death, which, as we shall see, took place on the 1st May, 1873.]

The heart, with the other parts removed, were placed in a tin box, which had formerly contained flour, and decently and reverently buried in a hole dug some four feet deep on the spot where they stood. Jacob was then asked to read the Burial Service, which he did in the presence of all. The body was left to be fully exposed to the sun. No other means were taken to preserve it, beyond

I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial-ground God's-Acre! It is just; It consecrates each grave within its walls, And breathes a benison o'er the sleeping dust.

The one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of his master.

A good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be.

Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.

Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.

A good character is the best tombstone.